Polykleitos
Polykleitos was an ancient Greek sculptor in bronze of the 5th century BCE. His Greek name was traditionally Latinized Polycletus, but is also transliterated Polycleitus. Polykleitos carved Doryphoros as the demonstration of the idea in his treatise “ Canon”, and he named this statue Canon as well to support his theory. Under the influence of the philosopher Pythagoras, he believes that the perfect statue with the balanced proportion, movement and harmony can be created by using the encompassing mathematical formula. Contrapposto an Italian term that of counterpose which is used in visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs was applied to Doryphoros.
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Donatello is one of the geatest sculptors during Fifteenth Century (Early Renaissance), while the war between Florence and Milan erupted. He created the first real life size scaled nude sculpture "David" since the Roman Empire vanished. He revived the Greek nude gods style sculptured. Donatello used to follow and learn from Lorenzo Ghiberti and helped him to creat the main entrance of Florence Cathedral, and then started to create his own works.
Donatello
Irish monks that created
the Lindisfarne Pages
The Irishes developed their own special cunture and art styles. Ireland was once treated as the standard for west European art and culture. When the Chritians brought Gospel from south to Ireland, the Irish accepted it with appreciation and remained it's original style.
They though that the Gospel pages contains the sacred message from God, so the art work and text of it needs to be created with perfection and beauty.
