Gothic sculptures The option for a few good examples to elucidate on Stratasys that inventories:
leave with you one of the more "classic" (found in your manual, but in a less favorable angle): notice the vertical elongation of figures, and even in some of the rigidity and conventionality still existing in the same . Note the longer humanization of visible faces. Notice also the verticality of plague conventional-draping of the garments (and thin parallel lines), especially in the left figure, which is further accentuate the effect of verticality, which also features Gothic architecture and painting.
columnar statues of the west portal of Chartres Cathedral, c. 1145-1155
For 100 years later, here is a good example of progress towards a more pronounced humanizing, realism and expressiveness. Notice the permanence of stretching even intentional.
Adam, originally on the facade of Notre-Dame de Paris. Marble, c. 1260
Another good example, later still, to look at the grace and elegance curvilinear (with the design of an S), typical of Gothic sculptures of the Virgin:
Virgin and child, Abbey of St. Dennis, 1339
(text with some interest for deepening)
leave with you three examples referring to our country, the two most important sculptors of our Gothic - one, probably from Aragon - Master
Pero - and one Portuguese -
Diogo Pires-o-Velho , but both with workshops in Coimbra:
Virgin and Child Workshop master Pero, 2nd quarter of the fourteenth century
Lady O , Master Pero Church Alcazaba, Montemor-o-Velho,
image of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Our Lady of Leca), Diogo Pires-o-Velho, 1481
I throw you an invitation -final challenge: to go up Our Church's ancient Franciscan Convent - now Church of Mercy - (there near the old bus station) enter ... and look right through a sculpture of Virgin ... "Manuel I" ... that is, the Founders of the sixteenth century ... Gothic yet ... of a late Gothic ... sculptor not as a scholar (the limitations are well known techniques and artistic interpretation ... and the popular manner ...) greater than as presented above, but with a grace and serenity just heartbreaking. This is a sculpture that seems to be forgotten in the work of our art historians, not surprisingly because it is not the best have in our country, but by its size and quality at other levels, and even by their origin - have come from the Convent of Santa Maria de Ceiça, nearby the Dad - would merit attention other ...
Ah! And the invitation is not innocent! To realize the similarities with the Virgin of Leca! How not to end where the anonymous sculptor of the "Virgin of Good Voyage" was to get the inspiration! Is that the "Virgin of Leca" sculpture is a truly awesome! Been able, had the King himself encomendante Afonso V! Can not imagine that would use an "image-maker" (sculptor popular, non-classical training) course chose the best sculptor of our time! And a number of dimensions is awesome! As it must have impressed the men and women - and popular cults - the height!
Church of Mercy
