The Story of Painting.
Italy's greatest sculptor at the time of Giotto; Nicola Pisano, was the one truly responsible for bringing sculpting out of the Dark Ages. Before him sculptures lacked definition and style.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
1/28/14
Today was the day that I spent an hour on Sister Wendy Beckett's:
The Story of Painting.
Italy's greatest sculptor at the time of Giotto; Nicola Pisano, was the one truly responsible for bringing sculpting out of the Dark Ages. Before him sculptures lacked definition and style.
They were flat, plain, and rather wooden looking pieces. Nicola's sculptures brought solidity and a life-like element to them.(As seen here on the right: His Allegory of Strength.) Which helped inspire Giotto's work, bringing it from the flatter Byzantine style, to a completely new style, known as the Renaissance style, with which the painters in the following age would use and bring to un-thought of heights.
The Story of Painting.
Italy's greatest sculptor at the time of Giotto; Nicola Pisano, was the one truly responsible for bringing sculpting out of the Dark Ages. Before him sculptures lacked definition and style.
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"Lacking style" is a bit generic. Sculpture before Pisano had style, generally a classical style, showing particular elements that were expected. Some classical sculptures showed individual personalities, but many were rather generic. I agree that Pisano's work showed greater depth (literally), and perhaps a bit more emotion than previous sculptures.
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