Donatello, Madonna of the Clouds발음듣기
Donatello, Madonna of the Clouds
Female Voiceover: And it's square, which is unusual, and it's what historians call a Rilievo Schiacciato.발음듣기
When we say relief, you might have been thinking about a sculpture that had figures that stood out more from the background, but this is a flattened relief, where there's only the few millimeters that come up from the background of the marble.발음듣기
Male Voiceover: And yet, what I find so remarkable is that Donatello is able to achieve a great sense of depth, despite, or perhaps, because of the flatness of the relief carving.발음듣기
Female Voiceover: This is a technique that he developed very much to help to create and illusion of space;발음듣기
Male Voiceover: Looking at this carving, I'm reminded of the extraordinary strides of naturalism that took place in the 15th century, developed by artists like Donatello, by Masaccio, by Mantegna and others.발음듣기
Female Voiceover: I think, very much, Donatello wants to convince us of the realism of this scene.발음듣기
Male Voiceover: Well, look at Mary, she's got real volume, real weight; her right leg seems to fall open towards us.발음듣기
There really is this sense of mass and volume, even though it's this little marble carved just millimeters deep.발음듣기
Female Voiceover: Donatello spent so much time on those folds of drapery that really show the form of the body underneath,발음듣기
but that also take on a lovely life of their own as they swoop up and around Mary's thighs, or around her shoulders, or that headdress that she wears, where the folds flip over one another;발음듣기
and you really get a sense of Donatello paying attention to ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.발음듣기
Her left foot pulls the drapery forward, and makes it taught and creates that wonderful sense of volume.발음듣기
The tips of Mary's fingers go into the drapery and we get a sense of the drapery pulling around her hand.발음듣기
Male Voiceover: Or her other hand, which clasps Christ, and especially his shoulder, in the way that she presses flat his flesh.발음듣기
Female Voiceover: There's no other reason to do this than to convince us of the naturalism of this.발음듣기
Male Voiceover: Except that here she is on a cloud-like space that almost looks as if it's a kind of stream, on the one hand is naturalism, but on the other hand, she's surrounded by these little angles with halos.발음듣기
It's this odd combination of realism, of paying attention to the body, of paying attention to an illusion of space, of paying attention to human emotion;발음듣기
and we certainly see that here in the relationship of Mary and Christ, this kind of tenderness.발음듣기
We pay attention to all of those for real human experiences, but at the same time we're looking at a spiritual scene.발음듣기
Male Voiceover: Look at the variety of kinds of carving that are in this small piece of marble.발음듣기
You have a deepest shadow that's outlining her profile, and it reminds me of an ancient Roman cameo, the way that she's in perfect profile,발음듣기
Female Voiceover: There's also shadow by her eyes and her nose; creates a sense of sadness as she tips her head forward toward Christ.발음듣기
Female Voiceover: Well, she looks as though she's protecting him; she encloses him within the form of her body and brings him towards her, what seems to be a protective gesture.발음듣기
The angels that surround them immediately are fairly substantial, but Donatello's able to achieve a real sense of depth by reducing the scale of the angels as we move back in space,발음듣기
and also by reducing the depth of the carving so that the angels in the upper corner and the upper left corner are carved in the most shallow possible way.발음듣기
Female Voiceover: Look at, for example, the angel on the upper right, the tip of her wing is not even carved, it seems to just move back into space;발음듣기
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