Tomb of Bishop Giles de Bridport

 

TCette effigie finement sculptée représente l’évêque Giles de Bridport, l’une des figures majeures de l’histoire ancienne de la cathédrale de Salisbury. Allongé en prière et vêtu de ses ornements épiscopaux, il est taillé dans le marbre sombre de Purbeck, matériau prestigieux réservé aux monuments les plus importants du XIIIᵉ siècle.

 

 

In fifteenth-century Florence, the image of the Virgin and Child underwent a quiet revolution. From the solemn, hieratic figures of late Gothic piety, the Madonna became an image of tender humanity, no longer distant and majestic, but immediate, emotional, and profoundly relatable. This transformation mirrors a broader shift in Renaissance devotion: the movement of sacred experience from church to home, from the grandeur of the altar to the intimacy of domestic life.

Swaddled Infant Tondo by Robbia

 

The Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence stands at the intersection of art, architecture, and social conscience. Commissioned in 1419 by the Arte della Seta (Silk Guild) and designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, it was both a revolutionary architectural achievement and a profoundly humane institution: the first purpose-built orphanage in Europe.

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