03 — ARTWORK
Mourning over the Dead Christ
UNKNOWN MASTER, French · 1520 →
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- Stone
- TYPE
- Religious
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COMMENTARY
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In France the movement towards naturalismGeneric term for scientific positions supported by natural insights. In fine arts and literature between approximately 1870 and 1900, Naturalism tried to reproduce the reality comprehended through sensory experience as realistically as possible, i.e. without idealising the object, but with scientific precision. In contrast to Realism, which was also based on the accurate description of natural occurrences, Naturalism concerns itself with the sensual dimensions of observation, whereby questions of morality and social criticism come to the fore. The spokesman for literary Naturalism was Emile Zola, who believed the artistic methods provided evidence of human existence. persisted throughout the fifteenth century. It is particularly marked in the large Entombment groups, so popular in the North. Yet, if these are life-like, there is nothing of the marked brutality of works accross the Rhine, and a certain Gallic lyricism pervades even these harsher representations.
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