. The art of the Italian renaissance; a handbook for students and travellers. Similarly, the 3Iadonnais tlioughtful. nurte : none would \Xnture to address her. A grave,almost solenm earnestness broods o\er them both. This manifestationof a new a«e and reverence foi sacred thing> must be comjiared v ithtigiucs so fullv expressi\i of Quattrocento sentiment as the terracotta grouj) bv Benedetto da iMajano in the Berlin iNIuseum. Wefeel convinced that anc ha\e alieadv seen tliis \\orthv dame somewhere,good naturedlv managing her household, and the Child is a merrylittle urchin. He certainly lif
. The art of the Italian renaissance; a handbook for students and travellers. Similarly, the 3Iadonnais tlioughtful. nurte : none would \Xnture to address her. A grave,almost solenm earnestness broods o\er them both. This manifestationof a new a«e and reverence foi sacred thing> must be comjiared v ithtigiucs so fullv expressi\i of Quattrocento sentiment as the terracotta grouj) bv Benedetto da iMajano in the Berlin iNIuseum. Wefeel convinced that anc ha\e alieadv seen tliis \\orthv dame somewhere,good naturedlv managing her household, and the Child is a merrylittle urchin. He certainly lifts His hand to bless, but there is nojieed to take the midter seriouslw The mirthfuhiess which lightsup the flees and smiles from the s[)eaking e\es is quite (juenchedin i\Iichelangelos figures. The head of liis ^irgin is as little sui;-gestive of a niiddle-cl;iss \\oman as is her dress of worldh- pomp andmagnificence. The spirit of a ne\v art sounds stronglv and audiblv, with long drawnchords, in the JIiuJoiiiki of Bni^rx. Indeed it nun be said that the MICHELANGELO .51. Uuly Family, Jlieheliiiiyx \ei-tical pose of the head alone is a iiioti\e n\ liieli in its grandeur trans-rends any produet of the Vuattroeento. In one very ejirly work, tire small relief w itli tlie Mddoiniii on flu-Steps; i\Iichelangelo had tried to rralise a similar conception. lie wishedto represent the Madonna gazino; into, vacancy with the Child asleepagainst her breast. His al)solutely unconventional pnrpose is apparentin the still timid sketch. Now, in full possession of the re(|uired expressionhe once more reverts to the motive in a relief, the unhmshed toiido in theBargello; the Child, tired and serious, resting on the i\lother, and ^lary,like a prophetess, gazing out of the composition, upright and fall-facedThe relief is noteuorthy also from another aspect. A new ideal of thefemale form is eyohed, a more forceful type, which entirely abandons theearlv Florentine delicacy. Large eyes, full; che
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