Ivory panel with Archangel발음듣기
Ivory panel with Archangel
(upbeat piano music) Female: We're in the British Museum looking at a very large ivory panel.발음듣기
Now what's interesting is even though it's in the British Museum, it actually comes originally from Constantinople.발음듣기
The angel who's in this ivory and let me just say this ivory is probably about what, 18 inches?발음듣기
Female: Right. The other panel would have been on the left and the Arch Angel, who we see, seems to be looking in the direction of what would have been the other figure that would have been in the other panel.발음듣기
Male: You can further tell that the panel would have been on the left because you can see you can actually see three holes that would have been functioning as part of the hinge.발음듣기
Female: Right and a diptych of course means a work of art made out of two panels, as opposed to a triptych which is three panels.발음듣기
Male: We can assume that there would have been another saint on the other side; another angel perhaps.발음듣기
Male: We see Greek text up at the top and below that we see this incredibly ornate arch with a cross above that and the cross is surmounting an orb.발음듣기
There seems to be almost a kind of sunburst behind it; very decorative, beautiful carving of a kind of ribbon or banner just below the wreath and then some broad open areas under some dentils.발음듣기
Female: It actually reminded me of an apse in a church with an archway behind and those columns in maybe perhaps a kind of recessed space.발음듣기
You do get a sense of real architectural space there and the figure himself is so interesting because it's so classicizing in some ways.발음듣기
Female: He is very large. Is that what you mean? He very much takes up that whole space as kind of a hierarchy of scale so that his size matches his divine nature.발음듣기
Female: Even his hair, the curls in his hair look like a Roman sculpture, Roman portrait bust.발음듣기
Male: It's true. If you stripped away the wings, if you stripped away the cross and the orb, you could be looking at a Roman portrait.발음듣기
The lines that make up each of the feathers in the angel's wings or the little circular swirling decorations in his cuff to the delicacy of his hand as he holds the staff, the other hand holding the orb with a cross on it, that symbol of power, 발음듣기
but we know that we're not in the classical world anymore and the way that I know that is by not only his size in relationship to the architecture, but when I look down at his feet.발음듣기
He doesn't really make contact with the ground in a meaningful way and that suggests to me a weightlessness, a kind of spirituality that reminds me of Byzantine and Medieval art.발음듣기
Male: The handling of the body, which by the way really is transparent behind the cloth, the body really does swell that cloth.발음듣기
It's not that later Medieval rejection of the body below, but this is still coming out of the classical.발음듣기
Female: I mean this is such a strange combination of the spiritual and the human that is a very funny moment in early Christian and Byzantine art.발음듣기
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