Name: 【TED-Ed】中世紀藝術中失真的聖母 Distorting Madonna in Medieval art - James Earle
Uploaded: 2013-07-30T15:00:26.000Z
Duration: 3 min 11 s

Ever see a medieval painting of baby Jesus

你可曾注視過一幅中世紀聖嬰圖，

小耶穌站或坐在他母親的腿上，

Paintings like Cimabue's enthroned Madonna with angels

繪畫如契馬布耶的《寶座聖母像》、

或是杜奇歐的《寶座上的聖像》，

如果聖母瑪麗亞站起來，看起來

the angels in the picture would be as tall as her shin bone,

圖畫裡的天使只到她的脛骨高，

and her torso would be disproportionately small

Maybe you thought the artist simply wasn't skilled enough

或許你認為這些藝術家 就是技巧還不夠熟練

or lacked the mathematical skill of perspective.

或是缺乏透視畫法的數學根據。

when the city of Rome was attacked by the Goths.

Rome was built in marble and meant to last forever.

羅馬以大理石建城，意圖永流萬世。

所以其毀滅（在人類文明史上） 留下了巨大的空洞。

Theologians, who preached about a world beyond the physical,

神學家，這些宣講形而上世界的人

began attracting an audience as Rome crumbled,

and Christianity started to fill the void left by the Empire.

而基督教開始填滿羅馬帝國 所留下的空洞。

As a replacement for the physical beauty of Rome,

羅馬強調的人體美， 但取而代之的是，

Christianity offered a metaphysical beauty of virtue

early medieval theologians turned away from physical beauty,

中世紀早期的神學家 撇棄了人體美，

They maintained that while the physical world was temporary,

他們主張有形的世界只是暫時，

Beautiful objects could lead to a misguided worship of the object

美麗的事物可能會 誤導我們去崇拜它，

It is said that the early sixth century preacher, St. Benedict,

傳說六世紀早期的傳道人聖本篤，

He feared his desire for the beautiful woman

would distract him from his desire to love God.

As European civilization transitioned away from empires

monasteries became the gatekeepers of knowledge,

Without protection, they became the victims of natural decay,

這些書籍一旦失去了保護， 便成了自然腐敗力量的犧牲：

And without the help of monks transcribing new copies,

these texts and the philosophies they carried

這些書籍的文字 及所要傳達的哲理

and were replaced by the works of people like St. Benedict,

取而代之的，是像聖本篤 這樣的人的作品，

which brings us back to these depictions of Jesus and Mary.

這把我們帶回之前說的 聖嬰及聖母圖。

Because Christianity had so fervently rejected physical beauty,

因為基督教是如此強烈的 抗拒人體美，

these medieval artists purposefully avoided

At first, decorations for churches or palaces

were limited to interesting geometric patterns,

without inspiring sinful thoughts of physical pleasure.

depictions of Jesus and Mary were tolerated,

but the artist clearly made an effort to veil Mary

但藝術家非常明顯地 努力要遮蔽瑪利亞

and give her disproportionately large legs,

並給了她一雙不成比例的長腿，

The fear remained that a beautiful illustration of Mary

他們仍然害怕 一幅美麗的瑪利亞圖

might inspire the viewer to love the painting

rather than the virtue she's meant to represent.

So even though it may be fun to think we can paint

所以即使這可能很好玩， 想到我們能

more realistically than Cimabuey or Duccio,

比契馬布耶或杜奇歐畫的 更栩栩如生，

we need to remember that they had different goals

我們必須記住當他們提起畫筆時，

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【TED-Ed】中世紀藝術中失真的聖母 Distorting Madonna in Medieval art - James Earle

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