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Compare and Contrast these two works:
(1) A Romanesque apse fresco, attributed to the Master of
Pedret, depicting the Virgin and Child, with the archangels Michael and Gabriel and the three Magi (accession # 50.180a-l). The work, which dates ca. 1100, comes from the Church of San Juan de Tredós, in Catalonia, Spain. The museum has permanently installed the fresco within the very-late-Romanesque apse of the Church of San Martin, Fuentidueña, Segovia, Spain, ca. 1175-1200. (The Fuentidueña Chapel, Gallery 002.) You should focus especially on the fresco, while also noting the relevant characteristics of the apse’s architecture and sculpture, which resemble the fresco’s original setting and whose elements accord well with the fresco’s general style. (Note that, as a setting for the Romanesque apse and fresco, the Museum constructed a new nave, in the Romanesque style, but with an exposed-timber ceiling.)
(2) A pair of adjacent stained-glass panels from a Gothic
chapel in the castle of Ebreichsdorf, Austria, ca. 1390. These represent, in the first panel, the Three Magi sighting the Star of Bethlehem, which appears in the second panel, above the Holy Family. (Accession #s 1986.285.1 and 1986.285.2. These panels comprise part of a stained-glass ensemble in the Gothic Chapel, Gallery 009, which the Museum constructed to accommodate Gothic sculpture and stained glass. Its components match many of the Gothic architectural features that we discussed in class.) As with the fresco, you should focus on the stained glass panels, but you should also note the ways in which the architecture accommodates and befits the stained-glass ornamentation.
After you have closely studied these works, both of which include the iconography of the Adoration of the Magi, write an essay of ca. five pages in which you discuss how they illustrate the changes in Western European culture, style, and religious values between the Romanesque and Gothic periods. In other words, what changes in the fortunes and religious devotion of Europe and what coordinate changes in artistic style account for the similarities and differences between the two works? — You should support your analyses by comparing the works to works that you have encountered in the textbook and in class.
In your essay, along with general considerations of historical, cultural, and stylistic development, you should also consider such specific issues in the art works as:
— the relevance of the different media.
— the treatment of human anatomy, drapery, and posture.
— the ways in which the figures in each work relate to
each other and to the viewer.
— the compositional format of each work.
— the kind of emotional content, if any, that the works
convey.
— the setting that each work provides for the ostensible
narrative.
— the devotional and religious purpose, as well as the
architectural setting, of the works.
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