From the Interpretation of Gestures to the Invention of the Body
Dalmasso, Véronique
From the Interpretation of Gestures to the Invention of the Body - 2009.
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Whilst painting the Life of Saint John the Baptist on the walls of the humanist Cardinal Castiglione's Chapel in the Lombard city of Castiglione Olona in 1435, Masolino da Panicale was among the first painters to associate with the scene of Christ's baptism the figures of the neophytes taking off their clothes on the shores of the Jordan River. The artist borrowed postures or gestures which he provides the neophytes with, using Antique and Byzantine art. Thus, his creation would apparently be an art of imitation. However, those gestures issued from the pictorial tradition could also be perceived as an attempt to address the bearing of time at work in the scene. It is therefore a matter of interpreting those figures that bring into play an artistic memory and past while revealing the stylistic research specific to Renaissance invention.
From the Interpretation of Gestures to the Invention of the Body - 2009.
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Whilst painting the Life of Saint John the Baptist on the walls of the humanist Cardinal Castiglione's Chapel in the Lombard city of Castiglione Olona in 1435, Masolino da Panicale was among the first painters to associate with the scene of Christ's baptism the figures of the neophytes taking off their clothes on the shores of the Jordan River. The artist borrowed postures or gestures which he provides the neophytes with, using Antique and Byzantine art. Thus, his creation would apparently be an art of imitation. However, those gestures issued from the pictorial tradition could also be perceived as an attempt to address the bearing of time at work in the scene. It is therefore a matter of interpreting those figures that bring into play an artistic memory and past while revealing the stylistic research specific to Renaissance invention.
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