Opus Mayus - Opus Mayus

Japanese: オプス・マユス - おぷすまゆす
Opus Mayus - Opus Mayus

…Technically, the Middle Ages knew about perspective (the theory of ancient perspective had been introduced to Europe in the 12th century through the works of the 10th-century Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham), but the medieval abstract worldview in which God was the absolute being did not require the objective depiction of the natural world. Roger Bacon, in his Opus Maus (written 1266-68), used ancient and Islamic techniques to demonstrate God's harmonious world and the omnipresence of his grace. Thus, Giotto revived Pompeian perspective in his frescoes painted in Assisi under the influence of the Franciscan harmonious and pantheistic worldview, and this can be seen as a reflection of the tradition, represented by Bacon, of valuing a coherent space as an ethical testimony to the divine order. …

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Japanese:

…技術的には中世人は透視図法を知っていた(10世紀アラビアの科学者イブン・アルハイサムの著作を通して12世紀に古代の透視図法の理論はヨーロッパに伝えられていた)が,神を絶対者とする中世の抽象的世界観は,自然界を客観的に描出することを必要としなかったと考えられる。ロジャー・ベーコンは《大著作(オプス・マユス)》(執筆1266‐68)で,古代とイスラム世界の技法を,神の調和的世界とその恩寵の遍在についての証明に利用している。したがって,ジョットはフランシスコ会の調和的・汎神論的世界観の影響下にアッシジで描いたフレスコにおいて,ポンペイ風の遠近法を復活させたが,そこには,外界への新たな関心と同時に,ベーコンに代表される,神の秩序への倫理的な証明として整合性ある空間を価値あるものとする,このような伝統があったためと考えることができる。…

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