The discussion came up by chance and after an off topic comment Giulia, I rise to the need to talk about the Middle Ages.
I know that this statement in a normal condition human relations would probably already spoken to a psychologist the good ones, but fortunately we are in the non-reality of the intangible web where many are allowed psicomanie so I feel pretty secure.
I state that I love the Middle Ages (although I do not like to call it that because I really do not see it as an age of transition between two important but oh well, go on ...) and then I will speak well (so those who can not stand to avoid tediarsi with this post).
The Middle Ages, the Dark Ages.
Now ... we all know that certain adjectives are not objective but relative. I would then focus on the concept of a moment which comes to light from darkness, darkness referred to the Middle Ages. We
to light the Renaissance (also the name of course). It is undoubtedly an epoch fruitful in terms of art and thought. Culture has been restored and reinforced in the hands of a few who can understand it, produce it, enjoy it. The visual artists are philosophers, theorists, Neoplatonic and so on and so forth.
front of David, a wonderful narrative proportion of the Force that has the man when he is guided by God, the populace grins: "Her head and hands ... but the really big ... and they remember!"
In the Middle Ages 'Art has really risked all to be art, or at least many. When someone ordered
a great work and submit it to the square, the emotion of the people.
In the Middle Ages, the grace in the eyes of the people is understandable because it is simply beauty, richness and emotion have searched in detail, and in turn in search of balance do not overdo it, not to inflate the chest. In the Middle Ages
artists go by the impalpable, the anthropomorphic figure of the deity to a strong love toward their fellow, sublimated in a simple model and dignified enough to be close to God
artists fall in love and looking for excitement, Facial expressions, physical features different reactions and instinct.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted a Virgin terrified by the arrival of the Angel (and who would not?), Dante writes in the vernacular and hunting Boniface VIII (still alive!) Hell (and then I will be talking about Striscia La Notizia!), John Pisano sculpts the curious infant Jesus, who grabs the crown of the mother and the tenderness in her look at the bold gesture.
wonderful artists went down in history as an oasis in the desert among many others, however, remained unknown, but also full of wonders to offer. The scarcity of names and biographies and critical parameters for evaluation of the first Neo-Platonic and neo-classical then have them for the limbo of the unknown and underestimated the darkness, precisely.
A time when art was in danger of being in its essence, folk art, loved and understood by the people.
A time when the Church, hegemonic in Space and Time, was about to leave food in the spirit of the new paganism of angels, demons and saints, healers and midwives.
and obscurantism if there was, has run nestled there: in the temporal power disproportionate and shame of the Church, in its economic hegemony that erases sinopie, who excommunicated the greatest diplomat that the West Quilt (Hoenstaufen Federico II, Stupor Mundi, he goes to the Middle East and instead of the crusade became a friend of the Sultan, are by means of the Holy Sepulchre and its surroundings, whether the benefits of that Sultan's harem and his son who comes from the Muslim girl, the great emperor Roman Catholic Apostolic takes him, recognizes him, gives him his own name and makes him prince), and then awoke suddenly, you realize that the Spirit is out of hand. And to take it back to his sacrificial fires raise gods and demons.
So a blow for the Middle Ages, that none of them is dark but the light was too short.
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