Summary Of A New Saint A New Art

A New Saint, A New Art is a documentary film produced by Early Renaissance Productions in 2004 as a part of the series, First light: Tuscany and the dawn of the Renaissance. Authors of the documentary film are Jeff Siberry, Alberta Nokes, and Colm Feore. Narrator of the documentary is Monsignor, Timothy Verdon, an art historian at Canon Florence Duomor. Interviews are also featured with Franciscan Friar Maurice Richard, and Alexander Nagel, art historian at the University of Toronto. St. Francis of Assisi revolutionized Christianity in the 13th-century in Tuscany with his belief that Christ’s original message of poverty, chastity, and obedience should shape every person’s relationship with God. By doing
This documentary film explains how St. Francis caused Christian inspired artists of the period to put emotion and nature into their art and to produce naturalistic paintings that showed movement and feeling. This was totally different from prior art that was flat and one dimensional and did not show feelings or emotions. Francis Bernardone was born in Assisi, Italy in 1182, and was wealthy and wild in his youth. This all ended when he was taken prisoner in a war between his home of Assisi and Perugia. A year as a prisoner of war changed his whole life, and he went back home knowing that he wanted to live his life like Christ had. He became a good man and gave up all his wealth to help others and teach the importance of charity. Francis had always been very dramatic, and that did not change as he used theatrical actions to get his message across. When he decided to give up all his wealth, he took off his clothes in the public square to make it clear to everyone that he would no longer wear expensive clothes. Instead he chose to wear simple, homemade clothing like the Franciscan Friars who came to follow him wore and still wear today. His
He got his message across so well that his ideas revolutionized the style of painting from stiff, flat, formal images to life-like three dimensional art that was full of emotion and action. Francis established one of the most successful orders in the Catholic Church, the Franciscans, who spread the message of Francis with their missionary work to France, Spain, Egypt, and China. Pope Gregory IX declared Francis a Saint and laid the foundation stone himself of The Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi to let everyone know that the Catholic Church welcomed the Franciscan Order and its founder, Francis. Ironically, the Basilica in Assisi that was dedicated to one of the poorest and humblest of men, was amazingly beautiful and became the birthplace of a new art known as the St. Francis Legend. A series of 28 scenes is a huge art display showing the life of St. Francis and is one of the world’s most important works of art. The artists who painted the tribute depict the natural world that Francis loved and the emotions he felt and wanted others to feel. Naturalism and showing things like they really look became the goal of painting and is still the main objective for artists even today. I did enjoy the film and learned many new things