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ABSTRACT EMOTIVE DEVICES: Pathos of a Single Perpetual Moment
Rogier van der Weyden, if for a moment he can be regarded as a pure stylist, is an unexcelled master designer. The Magdalen at the far right of “Deposition” is one of the most exquisitely costumed and patterned figures in … Continue reading
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Tagged Craig Harbison, Da Vinci, Elizabeth Losh, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish Art, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Kim Woods, Laura Gelfand, Leonardo Da Vinci, Linda Seidel, Michael Glover, Mitchell B. Meiback, Mitchell B. Meibeck, Pierre Bordieu, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, suzie nash
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GUILTY and SATISFIED: Just Above Paradise
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit. … There was a fascination with the world for its own sake , as a visual phenomenon, that was allied … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Edwin Hall, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Hubert van Eyck, Irwin Panofsky, James Snyder, Jan van Eyck, Kim Woods, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Northern Renaissance Art, Pacht, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Peter Vroom, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Susan Jones Caldwell College, suzie nash, The Lost Dutchman
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#FLEMISH EYE: Sanctity of the Bourgeois
All that is needed to appreciate Flemish painting, Michelangelo once observed, are two eyes and an interest in facts. He was alluding to the intense realism, the extreme precision, and the illusionistic impression of light and atmosphere with which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Hours Bruges, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Linda Seidel, Michelangelo, Northern Renaissance Art, Petrus Christus, Quentin Massys, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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PERSPECTIVE: Uncanny Leaps of Expression and Identity
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth-century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit… Perspective, as a systematic distortion paralleling the action of the eye- which is all perspective is, mechanically- becomes a form of … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Edwin Hall, Elizabeth Losh, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Jenny Graham, John Haber, John Haber Art, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Master of Flémalle, Northern Renaissance Art, Peter Voorn, Pierre Bordieu, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, The Lost Dutchman
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SACRAMENTS OF MARRIAGE: Take Your Shoes Off
Jan van Eyck, of all artists, is the one who proves that turning to the world need not mean reduction to the commonplace, and of all his paintings, the double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride, Jeanne Cenami, is … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dale Kent, Edwin Hall, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Hubert van Eyck, Irwin Panofsky, Jan van Eyck, Jean Wilson, Linda Seidel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Gardner, Northern Renaissance Art, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Renaissance Art, Susan Jones Caldwell College, The Lost Dutchman, William P. Coleman
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THE DODGY MASTER: PSST… ITS EROTIC ABSOLUTISM
“Besides foreshadowing Warhol, Rubens amounted to the Walt Disney of his day—a hardworking industrialist of standardized pleasures. He not only ran his studio as a virtual assembly line; he oversaw the mass production of prints, based on his paintings, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambroglio di Spinola, Andy Warhol, Archduchess Isabella, Benvenuto Cellini, Bologna, Caravaggio, Counter Reformation, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Flemish painting, Giovanni da Bologna, Helena Fourment Rubens, Inigo Jones, Justus Lipsius, Macchiavelli, Margaret D. Carroll, Mary D. Garrard, Norma Broude, Olivares, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Philip Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Seneca, Simon Schama, Walt Disney
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PAINTED FROM MEMORY: PETER PAUL PAINTING JOY
“Like many people, I have trouble with Rubens’s nudes, especially the female ones: all that smothering flesh, vibrantly alive but with the erotic appeal of a mud slide. (Rubens, owing to moral constraints of the time, rarely worked from nude … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Golahny, Andy Warhol, Anthony Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edward Norgate, Flemish painting, Hals, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Jan Brandt, Jan Wildens, Julius Ceasar, King Henry IV, Mannerist Art, Marie de Medicis, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Rembrandt, Rubens, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Simon Schama, Sir William Sanderson, Tacitus Roman Historian, Vermeer, Willem Panneels
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CHRISTMAS IN JULY: AND A MAGI IN A PEAR TREE
Hans Memling’s ”The Seven Joys of Mary” is a pageant as much as a painting, a dramatization of holy events in a landscape that might accommodate the revelry of a midsummer eve. Exactly what is going on is hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Tani, Cathedral of Lubeck, Chales The Bold, Chapel of the Tanners, Cyndi Lauper, Flemish painting, Hans Memling, Northern Renaissance Art, Northern Renaissance Painting, Paul Jeromack, Peter Bultinc, Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Vincent de Paul
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CASTLES IN SHIFTING SANDS
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.(Exodus.2:12) ”In Paris, there’s Berthe Courrière, kabbalist, devotee of the Black Arts and serial … Continue reading
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Tagged Berthe Courriere, Bruges history, Bruges occult, Flemish painting, Gary Lachman, George Sand, Georges Rodenbach, Giovanni Arnolfini, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes, Jan van Eyck, Jerome Munzer, John Huizinga, Nevill Drury, Paul Butel, Portinari, Remy de Gourmont, Sir John Donne, Suzi feay, suzie nash
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