Exploration:
Gothic Era (Gothic
and Early Renaissance)
A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW
EARTH
And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Revelation 21:1
Last Judgment
Paradise circa 1100
Mosaic, Sta. Maria
Assunta, Torcello
JUST AS BABYLON FUNCTIONS AS A SYMBOLIC
SITE FOR TEMPTATION AND
evil, so the New Jerusalem serves as a symbol of heaven. In the
vision of the | new city revealed to John by one of the angels, it
is a twelve-gated metropolis И of vast proportions—1,500 miles in
length, width, and height—and constructed of the most costly
materials: gold, pearls, precious stones. The descriptions of it are
so detailed that they could almost be diagrammed in an architectural
drawing. Medieval and Renaissance depictions of paradise can be engagingly
fanciful, as in Andrea da Firenze's pastel-tinted haven filled with
flowers, forests, and solicitous angels.
Andrea Bonaiuti da Firenze
(1333-1392) The Church Militant and Triumphant Fresco, 1365-1368
Cappella Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
The concept of heaven as
a court—which has both judicial and royal connotations—long
influenced depictions of the enthroned Christ and of Mary as Queen
of Heaven.
Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto
(1518-1594)
Brazen Serpent 1575-1576 Scuola di San Rocco, Venice
Jacopo Robusti
Tintoretto
(1518-1594) Paradise 1579
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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