ARTH 112 1st Edition Lecture 9 Renaissance Mood and meaning Affetti Affect Verismo Realism o More narrative complexity o Perspective and emotional complexity o Importance of style Michelangelo Pieta 1500 cont o Meditative state interpreted as looking at her son as if in a dream envisioning that she was back in Bethlehem and her child was just born David 1501 1504 o Carved from a weathered piece of stone found outside of a cathedral o Portrays David before he slays Goliath Sizing up his enemy o Face portrays a mixture of emotions Perilous nervous Fight or flight Piet 2 o Michelangelo had created the first when he was 24 but this was done when he was an old man o Awkward unbalanced more contorted and distorted o Mary s face is unfinished o Less concerned with realism o Face of Joseph is Michelangelo s face Piet o o o o 3 Created this the week that he died Beginning of expressionism Jesus is extremely frail Not in a Renaissance style but a personal one
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