Comments on: Madonna with the Long Neck http://arthistory.we-wish.net/2009/08/03/madonna-with-the-long-neck/ Mon, 31 May 2010 00:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark Harden http://arthistory.we-wish.net/2009/08/03/madonna-with-the-long-neck/comment-page-1/#comment-6268 Mark Harden Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:25:44 +0000 http://arthistory.we-wish.net/?p=493#comment-6268 What strikes me in looking closely at the work, really for the first time, is the body of the Christ child. Standard Madonna iconography depicts Him sitting upright on her lap. This image is unique in His lying prone. We cannot even see His full face, and His eyes are closed. And of course, this recalls, as mentioned above...the Pieta. Parmigianino is reminding us of the truth of Redemption: that Jesus Christ took on our human flesh to die for our sins. He was destined to die for us from the moment of His birth. What strikes me in looking closely at the work, really for the first time, is the body of the Christ child. Standard Madonna iconography depicts Him sitting upright on her lap. This image is unique in His lying prone. We cannot even see His full face, and His eyes are closed. And of course, this recalls, as mentioned above…the Pieta.

Parmigianino is reminding us of the truth of Redemption: that Jesus Christ took on our human flesh to die for our sins. He was destined to die for us from the moment of His birth.

]]> By: imtiaz http://arthistory.we-wish.net/2009/08/03/madonna-with-the-long-neck/comment-page-1/#comment-6261 imtiaz Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:52:50 +0000 http://arthistory.we-wish.net/?p=493#comment-6261 this is the great achievement in art history because permigianino break out the classical rules of art....the graco roman style effected the art since the greek period...for this it is the great achievement this is the great achievement in art history because permigianino break out the classical rules of art….the graco roman style effected the art since the greek period…for this it is the great achievement

]]> By: Val Span http://arthistory.we-wish.net/2009/08/03/madonna-with-the-long-neck/comment-page-1/#comment-5719 Val Span Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:51:22 +0000 http://arthistory.we-wish.net/?p=493#comment-5719 I noticed that I felt like I hit a dead end going from the Madonna's face down to the child. Unlike Kim, I didn't follow the obvious sweep to the left, but kept trying to take in the whole picture, and still kept sticking at the prone figure. It seems that Parmagianino didn't want the observer to venture down into the lower portion of the composition and look too closely at the disproportionate lower body of the Madonna. She is huge! It's the same device Michelangelo used in the Pieta, but seems unnecessary here since Christ is still an infant rather than a grown man. I noticed that I felt like I hit a dead end going from the Madonna’s face down to the child. Unlike Kim, I didn’t follow the obvious sweep to the left, but kept trying to take in the whole picture, and still kept sticking at the prone figure. It seems that Parmagianino didn’t want the observer to venture down into the lower portion of the composition and look too closely at the disproportionate lower body of the Madonna. She is huge! It’s the same device Michelangelo used in the Pieta, but seems unnecessary here since Christ is still an infant rather than a grown man.

]]> By: Kim Faust http://arthistory.we-wish.net/2009/08/03/madonna-with-the-long-neck/comment-page-1/#comment-5703 Kim Faust Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:35:24 +0000 http://arthistory.we-wish.net/?p=493#comment-5703 My eye travels from the Virgin's face, down her body to the strangely proportioned child, through his body to the left viewing each face of the 'angels' up through the draped curtain and off the page. My eye is brought back in with the solitary capitol down to the man in a tunic carrying a scroll. It's all about composition and placement of figures, objects within the picture plane. Perspective and proportion are not as strong in this almost pre-Surreal painting. My eye travels from the Virgin’s face, down her body to the strangely proportioned child, through his body to the left viewing each face of the ‘angels’ up through the draped curtain and off the page. My eye is brought back in with the solitary capitol down to the man in a tunic carrying a scroll.

It’s all about composition and placement of figures, objects within the picture plane. Perspective and proportion are not as strong in this almost pre-Surreal painting.

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