Emily Medeiros Humanities 101 Section #4169 Oct. 24, 2014
The Reformation and Counter Reformation beginning in the 16th century both had significant effects all across the Arts in Europe. The Protestant revolution led thousands away from the Catholic Church after Martin Luther nailed his protests to his Catholic Church door and brought forth new artistic traditions that moved towards more secular forms, which were felt to bring glory to God through the depictions of the beauty of his creations and the people made in his image. One such example of the more secular forms of art is the still life painting Flowers in a Wan-li Vase with Blue-tit. By Johannes Goedaert (Humanities pg. 326 fig. 10.14) Still life paintings were one of the …show more content…
To counteract it’s losses, the Catholic church created the Catholic Reformation-which was focused on bringing the people back to the church, and was still very encouraging of outright religious depictions, moving towards religious art that appealed to the large range of human emotion and feeling. The Baroque sculpture The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bernini.html) by Gianlorenzo Bernini is an example of the new emotional evocations through the art which was inspired by one of passages written by the catholic St. Teresa Avila when she was very involved with the Jewish Kabbalah tradition. She spoke of the vision she had of the love of God appearing to her in the form of a beautiful Angel who pierced her body several times all the way to her entrails with the golden arrow of divine love. Teresa wrote about her experience as being physical as well as spiritual, and the pain being so intense that she could do nothing but moan in the midst of the event. In the sculpture St. Teresa is portrayed in the very moment of her orgasmic response as the Angel stands above her, arrow in hand having just removed it from her body. Bernini pulled the
The Reformation and Counter Reformation beginning in the 16th century both had significant effects all across the Arts in Europe. The Protestant revolution led thousands away from the Catholic Church after Martin Luther nailed his protests to his Catholic Church door and brought forth new artistic traditions that moved towards more secular forms, which were felt to bring glory to God through the depictions of the beauty of his creations and the people made in his image. One such example of the more secular forms of art is the still life painting Flowers in a Wan-li Vase with Blue-tit. By Johannes Goedaert (Humanities pg. 326 fig. 10.14) Still life paintings were one of the …show more content…
To counteract it’s losses, the Catholic church created the Catholic Reformation-which was focused on bringing the people back to the church, and was still very encouraging of outright religious depictions, moving towards religious art that appealed to the large range of human emotion and feeling. The Baroque sculpture The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bernini.html) by Gianlorenzo Bernini is an example of the new emotional evocations through the art which was inspired by one of passages written by the catholic St. Teresa Avila when she was very involved with the Jewish Kabbalah tradition. She spoke of the vision she had of the love of God appearing to her in the form of a beautiful Angel who pierced her body several times all the way to her entrails with the golden arrow of divine love. Teresa wrote about her experience as being physical as well as spiritual, and the pain being so intense that she could do nothing but moan in the midst of the event. In the sculpture St. Teresa is portrayed in the very moment of her orgasmic response as the Angel stands above her, arrow in hand having just removed it from her body. Bernini pulled the