Nanni di Banco, Four Crowned Saints발음듣기
Nanni di Banco, Four Crowned Saints
(soft piano music) Man: We're on the second of Or San Michlele, and we're looking at one of the most famous sculptures that used to be on one of the exterior niches.발음듣기
These are four ancient Roman sculptures, who are asked by the Roman Emperor, Diocletian, to create a sculpture of a pagan God. They refused, and were put to death.발음듣기
The moment that Nanni di Banco has chosen to get picked is the moment when their coming to the realization that this will be their fate.발음듣기
Each skilled had a niche on the outside of the Or San Michlele, and chose a sculpture to represent their patron saints.발음듣기
Man: Almost as if there's a negation going on between them, and as if their thinking deeply about the consequences of the decision that their in the process of making.발음듣기
Lady: Instead of having these single thoughtful figures like the Donatello Saint Mark. We have figures who are looking at each other gesturing.발음듣기
There's that wonderful dark shadow `` in that really deep carving, and all of them are paying attention.발음듣기
This guild is showing the nobility of their profession that stone can get to the heart of what it means to be human, and in a noble way to live up to ones belief.발음듣기
Lady: Being a sculpture in the early 15th century in Florence, looking back at the ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, it's in sculpture that we see the revival to take place.발음듣기
The faces look like figures from ancient Roman Republican statues. Their wearing these Roman togas.발음듣기
Several of them stand in contrapposto epically, this one second from the left, where we can really see his knee pressing through the drapery and a sense of his hips and really a body.발음듣기
Man: There's kind of a empathy that I feel for these figures that is intensified, because it is these four men.발음듣기
Think about Florence in the 15th century, which was really thinking about its sense of community. They took decisions together.발음듣기
This notion of doing things together, and doing things for the group was absolutely central to the specific nature of this city.발음듣기
Lady: With Donatello Saint Mark, you have the dignity of the individual which was a very important part of humanism.발음듣기
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