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(2) CHAPTER 4 THE GOTHIC SCULPTURE

ART GOTHIC
CHAPTER 4: THE GOTHIC SCULPTURE

Jacques rouveyrol


I. CHARACTERISTICS

The gradual disappearance of the wall gradually freed sculpture from the influence of architecture and leads to progressive nature. Age Gothic sculpture is that of a balance between the demands of the architectural framework and that of the natural model that the Renaissance will then return completely.

1. Framework.

The sculpture is not free. It is framed by the top and bottom: canopy and base. Still subject to the architecture.

2. backing.

The "statue" overcomes some of the wall.
She also maintains the wall by the back. But is that by holding back, it frees them laterally across the front.

3. Facialité.

Neither frontal nor axialisée, the statue face .....

a. Frontal : archaic Egyptian sculpture, Greek Kouros, Virgin Roman, first Gothic (Chartres Statues columns)

The frontal presentation of the Egyptian pharaoh of the Greek Kouros, the Virgin Romance gives these figures look hieratic . Frozen in a posture symmetrical for eternity, they overlook the idea of deities Earth came from another world.

b. Facialité: Gothic classic

Face the statue Gothic accesses a beginning of movement that gives it a "life". While the statue front could not be regarded as the front, one angle, therefore, face the statue can be all points of view except the back.

c. Axiality : Greek sculpture, Roman, Renaissance and beyond.

A vertical axis travels around which to rotate. Completely free of architecture, the statue has become autonomous.

4. Expressiveness.

Thus relatively freed from the shackles architectural sculpture continues to be low or high relief to become a statue. It accesses a certain autonomy which allows it to obtain expression. This term does not pass through the face but still the holding.

5. Balance between architecture and "nature"

again submitted for a part in the architecture, it must accept the "distortions". The statues columns Charter stretch in height as required by the column they are backed. But somehow liberated from the wall where it tends to advance, they are more like the beings humans they are. The balance between architecture and nature defines Gothic sculpture.

6. The human type.

The ability to resemble a natural allow the statue to embody not yet an individual being (big or small, bald or hairy, etc.) but at least the human type, the essence rights, it is universal, common to all individuals: their humanity.

7. The correspondence between the Old and New Testament.

a. "Disorder" iconographic Portal novel.

We saw the cloister of Moissac align in a mess its obvious iconographic capitals. The porch of the church evokes scenes from the New Testament in a mess almost as important: Annunciation / Visitation (it goes again). Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, death of Lazarus, who died of the Miser, Lust.

b. "Timeline" Gothic Portal (Portal Precursor).

The Gothic doorway held sacred history. Patriarchs and Prophets in the Holy Gospels, we gradually advance towards the Nativity (represented by the Virgin Marie).
Gothic introduced or chronological order or symbolic (coresponds between the Old and New Testament. See below.)