FT-54576-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Barbara Jean Larson | Catholicism and Science in Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series | 6/1/2006 - 8/31/2006 | $5,000.00 | Barbara | Jean | Larson | | | | University of West Florida | Pensacola | FL | 32514-5750 | USA | 2006 | Art History and Criticism | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
Monet's paintings of the facade of Rouen Cathedral (1892-93) engage in the polemic between Church and State before their official separation (1905). They respond to the tradition of belief by emphasizing transcendence, reverie, the sublime, non- naturalistic colors, and a regional Gothic cathedral built over a four hundred year period. They also are careful documents of weather and lighting based on the artist's interest in meteorology, a science supported by the anti-clerical Third Republic that empties the heavens of divine mysteries. |