What are your observations about and/or reactions to the images? to their pictorial settings? to their stylistic features?
Saturday, February 23, 2013
The Pope's Prophets
What are your observations about and/or reactions to the images? to their pictorial settings? to their stylistic features?
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The appearance of the images is very interesting. Vibrant colors on some like Joel and Ezekiel. Some with almost a more aged look to them with the choice of color and shading, such as Zechariah and Persian Sibyl. What surprises me is how some look almost three dimensional, especially Erythraean Sibyl and Delphic Sibyl.
The one that seems to bother me however is the depiction of Jonah. I'm just lost by,"here's a large fish next to him with a couple more people apparently with him. Oh he must be in the belly of the whale!" It just confuses me. I would have never guessed this was Jonah until someone told me.
This artwork is amazing. I'm not one who is very good with art terms or techniques, but the way it's layered and 3D like must have been quite the sight to see back then. It still is today of course.
As for Jonah, I got right away that Jonah was the one being depicted, simply because of the fish. But the people around him did throw me off.
I think it's interesting how Jonah and Zachariah are darker than some of the other paintings. Does this mean he started painting them first, so they've aged more? Why are they like that?
The paintings are gorgeous of course. All of the prophets are painted very realistically and are all in some kind of action that relates to their role or story in Bible.
-Taylor E.
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