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March 29, 2009
Artistic Bologna
There are a lot of old friends in Bologna, like the Neptune fountain, the statue of Boniface VIII, the two towers. These panels, 3 of the 10 (I think?) Jacopo della Quercia carved to flank the doorways of San Petronio, are really capital-G GREAT. The center of the 3 I have for you here is the Expulsion from Paradise. I once wrote a lot about the triangular negative space between the archangel and Adam - you can see what Michelangelo learned from jacopo, if you think about similar dynamic poses in the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 29, 2009 8:40 PM