From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14454 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, August 15 2024 Volume 14 : Number 14454 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Free Time? Get a Credit Health Check ["Check My Credit Now" Subject: Free Time? Get a Credit Health Check Free Time? Get a Credit Health Check http://siriusxm.ru.com/KfZDeLGfm50IM3zQ5lq0splBLkbKx0z-MUxm5vS0IZH2kHYYFQ http://siriusxm.ru.com/tZ_19EZxzSQNl2cig-r2e3m6m-gBj3J_cze76BDSg-8l14nz alian composition also moved towards having a single large scene, sometimes called a pala (Italian for "panel"), often dispensing with the predella. Rather than static figures, narrative scenes from the lives of the main figures grew in popularity; this was to become the dominant style for large altarpieces over the next centuries. Originally mostly horizontal ("landscape") in format, they increasingly used vertical ("portrait") formats. Some were as much as 4 metres tall, and concentrated on a single dramatic action. This much height typically required a composition with an in aria group to fill the upper part of the picture space, as in Raphael's Transfiguration (now Vatican), though The Raising of Lazarus by Sebastiano del Piombo (now London) is almost as tall, using only a landscape at the top. In Italy, during the Renaissance, free-standing groups of sculpture also began to feature as altarpieces. The most famous example is the PietC by Michelangelo, originally placed as the altarpiece in a side chapel of Old St Peter's. Lucas Cranach the Elder's Lutheran Wittenberg Altarpiece, 1547 In the north of Europe, the Protestant Reformation from the early 16th century onwards led to a swift decline in the number of altarpieces produced in the parts of Europe affected. Outbursts of iconoclasm locally led to the destruction of many altarpieces. As an example, during the burning of the Antwerp Cathedral in the course of the Reformation in 1533, more than fifty altarpieces were destroyed. The Reformation initially persisted with the creation of new some altarpieces reflecting its doctrines, sometimes using portraits of Lutheran leaders for figures such as apostles. The Protestant range of subjects contracted; traditional saints were no longer shown, and the Last Supper was a popular scene. Lucas Cranach the Elder's Wittenberg Altarpiece of 1547 is a leading example, with the side panels showing scenes of the sacraments with a modern setting, and the single predella scene Martin Luther preac ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14454 ***********************************************