Henry Moore Lecture Analysis

In the lecture Henry Moore was described as the most famous British sculptor in the the 20th century. He was very well known for his many statues made of stone, wood, and bronze in the 1940s and 1950s. One of his statues portrays a reclining female made of various curves with some negative space and a very visual hole in her midsection. Many people thought at the time that the hole stood for the spiritual emptiness of men in which also meant that they were misguided in their faith. Others thought that the statue stood for a more positive representation and for humans to open ourselves to nature and the universe instead of shutting out the world.

Pieta was described in lecture as a term used in medieval and Renaissance paintings to describe Christ once he was taken down from the cross after being crucified by the Romans for being the Messiah. In the Byzantine icon image shown in the lecture depicts Christ
This ideal encouraged individual self-development and improvement in all aspects of ones life which Leonardo clearly exubirated. He was well known for his paintings and inventions but is discussed in lecture becuase of the Villa Rotonda. The Villa Rotonda is a large building that was built by the Italian archietect Pallodia in 1570 near Venice as an ideal vacation home for a weathly nobleman at that time. The villa was meant to represent the Pantheon in ancient Rome however, it was built with four proticos or porch-like sections with coloumns and steps with the dome being in the center. This was meant to express the ideology of Italian Renaissance with its phiolosophy in humanism which brings me back to Leonardo da Vinci as a classical example of a man who was a clear Renaissance man. However, there were also many others who were not quite as famous as da Vinci but were focusing on other aspects of perfection and self-development in music, poetry, philosophy and the