Arts and Ideas II Post response
Your response to the posts should be well developed, fully explaining your response to the posts and including an additional image example.Make responses that add to the conversation and take it further.
http://www.italianrenaissance.org/donatellos-saint-mark/
The image above, referenced in our text, is the “Guild of Linen Weavers, patron, St. Mark.” (Davies, Hofrichter and Jacobs). This sculpture was accomplished by Donatello using techniques that he learned by “studying the arts of the ancients” which emphasized a more natural form rather than rigid features (Davies, Hofrichter and Jacobs). This piece of art is reflective of the significance that religion played in the government and community during this period of time. Artists were commissioned by the Guild to “emulate Rome,” and the governing force that supported these projects were the merchants and bankers, “not aristocrats” (Davies, Hofrichter and Jacobs). Another point mentioned in our text was that patrons used art throughout Italy as “visual and textual references to antiquity” (Davies, Hofrichter and Jacobs).
This next image is the statue of Martin Luther King Jr, which is located at the National Mall in Washington, DC (Visiting the Marin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC). The significance of this statue is the belief that “freedom, justice and opportunity” for all people is the backbone of our society (Visiting the Marin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC). Martin Luther King Jr was also a religious leader, but his legacy leaned more towards his non-violence approach to resolving conflicts during the civil rights movement. This sculpture, like the one of St. Mark above, are visual reminders of historical events that affected society as a whole.
Works Cited
Davies, Penelope J.E, et al. “Chapter 15 The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy.” Davies, Penelope J.E, et al. Janson’s Basic History of Western Art. 9th . Pearson, 2014. 310-355. 26 Aug 2019.
Italian Renaissance.org, “Donatello’s Saint Mark”. 12 July 2012. 27 Aug 2019.
Visiting the Marin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. n.d. 27 Aug 2019.
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