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The Villa Kerylos, built on the French Riviera in the 1900’s. An almost exact copy of an antique villa unearthed in Delos, with some modern amenities.
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Antonella da Messina - Unfinished Pietà with three Angels
c. 1475
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One of the perhaps strangest motifs of medieval Christian iconography: the gaping wound on Christ’s torso, opened by the Spear of Longinus, rendered visually as an abstract, oval form, detached from any spatial reference.
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Something strange.
Classical Greece. The upper half of a female face, sculpted in marble with inlaid eyes, set into a pillar of a sanctuary.
A votive offering to Asclepius, the god of medicine, most likely made by a Greek sculptor named Praxias in the 4th century BC.
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No one can paint a loving embrace quite like Rembrandt.
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Gérard David - Annunciation
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The nocturnal, winterly tones are striking.
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@Tocharus
Why not show the works Egon Schiele did that got him accepted, rather than his much later style? He was the better artist than Hitler, who could never even master perspective. That’s not a question of taste, but a neutral evaluation of skill.
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I can’t watch shows taking place in the Middle Ages, because the lacking budget and care for detail makes royal courts look like the houses of the absolute lowest nobles. In reality, the opulence would have been breathtaking, almost intoxicating, even to our modern eyes.
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The Augsburg Book of Miracles.
A 15th Century illuminated manuscript cataloguing various recorded strange events - some meteorological, others fantastical. All miraculous.
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Matthias Grünewald stands out: few artworks profess as much adherence to Christian dogma as the Isenheim Altarpiece, painted for a monastery treating plague victims.
Observe Christs body - it is plague-sick. He shares Man's suffering, and in doing so, redeems it.
However...
It would be interesting to attempt to divide artists of the European tradition into two segments - those who believed, and those who wrestled with faith. Which is not to say they were closet atheists per se, but that their reception of reality was at odds with accepted Dogma.
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@FrankPulpwriter
Prussian training was infamous for its violence and use of collective physical punishment for minor transgressions. The “pike-run”, in which soldiers had to walk past rows of soldiers lacerating their back with weapons, was particularly feared and detested.
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@BuyErasers
@ploughmansfolly
This guy was eating alone, saw an attractive couple come in, and immediately started eavesdropping in hopes of dissing the guy eating with his pretty girlfriend. It’s picture perfect, this thread should be framed.
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@solar_chase
How is that a bad thing about Switzerland? It’s literally one of the pillars of their astounding success and lasting prosperity. If we want to live in dynamic, competitive countries with free transfer of people, we can’t blame a country for playing the game better than others.
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@KWcomeuntome
@plaiesoleil
His love letters and some selective quotes appear to have gone viral in online circles dominated by teenage girls, which has given them a heavily doctored image of him as a perpetual softboy and not the much sharper and trenchant man he really was.
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Turner, perhaps Britain’s finest painter, grew weary with old age.
Still painting, he lived as a recluse under a false name.
He stopped selling his paintings, and dreamed about one day uniting his entire body of work into a single, cohesive museum.
I dream about this, too…
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I’ve always been fascinated by the final work periods of the great Masters. You can feel the struggle to overcome the limits of their era and to go beyond their own body of work.
Sometimes, one can feel abstraction creeping in, like a whisper.
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Out of all depictions of fire, Bruegel’s wind-battered winter hearth remains among the ones that seizes me the most. There is such an immediate, lifelike presence to it that one first thinks there is something wrong, that our eyes deceive us, that our memory is instead speaking.
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@SiJoNorr
@autistocrates
Harari explicitly reduces humanity to “avoid pain, enhance pleasure” and stipulates that all human activity is downstream from that principle. Considering our innate need to create art, explore, face dangers, overcome challenges and such, he’s wildly incorrect and anti-human.
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Italy - Rationalism.
Dissolving the boundaries between the Classical and Modern.
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The Palaikastro Kouros, made of goldleaf-covered ivory some 3500 years ago, is the only known cult statue of the Minoan civilization. It’s grace and splendour speaks for itself.
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This is supposed to be a King who rules over a vast continent of many realms, like a Roman Emperor, seated at the corner of some ordinary table that would have been more at home in a random farmhouse. There’s not even a tablecloth, and the plates aren’t ornate. What the fuck?
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No wonder people think the Middle Ages were a grim, dismal era, they’re being systematically misled by showrunners who portray mighty kings living the material lives of lowly chieftains. In that same HOTD episode, the King stands up and serves himself during a banquet. Insanity.
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Something a bit different.
Matisse - Open Window in Collioure
Louis Aragon called it “the most mysterious art piece ever painted”.
Dizzying to think that this was painted in 1914, mere moments before Europe entered the void.
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Those who know Vermeer are familiar with the “camera obscura” hypothesis surrounding his work: that he was not painting in the traditional sense, but using early photographic projection to perfectly capture a moment with more precision than the human eye.
Let me explain…
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@Citizen09372364
I wish Borges could resurrect for a day so he could write this man’s eulogy. An entire world has been extinguished with his passing.
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I probably shouldn’t be posting these, but I can’t help myself:
Some pictures from my latest private visit at the Louvre.
I couldn’t tell you how often I’ve been - scores of times - and my appreciation of it grows still.
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@bsdhvt
Paris, famously not a filthy city before today. I beg of you never to read a single page of Zola, Hugo, Balzac or any other 19th century French author because the accurate descriptions of rat-riddled, heaving Paris would break your little mind.
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Gustav Klimt - Allegory of Philosophy
Now destroyed, this painting was originally intended to adorn the ceiling of the University of Vienna. It was rejected by the faculty for its depiction of philosophy as an aimless, trancelike drifting of Man into the void.
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Neo-Assyrian reliefs depicting the Lion Hunt, an esteemed royal pass-time.
Take note of the king’s eyes, chiseled out in an act of iconoclasm by succeeding empires. Gouging eyes was a common form of punishment in the Ancient Near East.
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From Prehistory to Picasso: the Bull Skull, perhaps the oldest continual motif in history.
It appears on prehistoric cave art and adorned the walls of Çatalhoyük. It was an emblem of the Minoans and a major ornament during Antiquity. It hasn’t left our side in 30 millennia.
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Caravaggio and Rembrandt both treat the body as the ultimate vessel for devotion. The act of touching and embracing is omnipresent in their work.
Yet the means by which the body attains Redemption in their art are starkly opposed.
Let's see what is behind this opposition...
It would be interesting to attempt to divide artists of the European tradition into two segments - those who believed, and those who wrestled with faith. Which is not to say they were closet atheists per se, but that their reception of reality was at odds with accepted Dogma.
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@DilettanteryPod
Prehistory as a field of study is extremely young, barely 2 centuries old, and within this short span, the field has been forced to reevaluate its dating system time and time again because new discoveries upend old ones.
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@jardinsecret888
There are people on here who call you a trad larper if you say you’d like your priorities in adult life to be centered around raising your kids and creating a nice home, even though that’s the modus operandi for like 90% of the world population
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@SiJoNorr
@autistocrates
He also says, off the top of my head, that all streets were filthy and muddy in 16th Century Europe and that not building was higher than a few stories. If you think cobblestone streets and massive domes weren’t around during the RENAISSANCE, you might just be a half-wit.
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Few understand my fascination with iconoclasm. One could even call it an appreciation.
To consider an image so powerful that it must be destroyed is an implicit acknowledgement that art is more than crafted material.
It has a soul of its own. It exerts power.
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I can hear you thinking: "Impressionism, a conservative movement? But it was radical, groundbreaking!"
To associate visual innovation to political progress is a false equivalence, fostered by modernist teleology.
Often, new art emerges as a critical reaction to change...
When the Impressionists emerged, they were conscious of the colourist tradition their work was seeped in.
Despite being innovative, the style pursues visual explorations launched 5 Centuries earlier during the Renaissance.
In certain ways, it can even be called conservative.
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@vikare06
16th Century Japanese castle. Also moving large stones isn’t particularly complex, look at the so-called Cyclopean Masonry of Mycenaean Greece. You just need large manpower, social organisation and very basic engineering to get it done.
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The “Petit Livre d’Amour”, or “Little Book of Love”, an illuminated collection of love poems written around 1500.
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Claude Mellan - Face of Christ on St. Veronica's Cloth, 1649.
An exceptional piece.
The face of Christ drawn in one unbroken line, spiraling out from the nose until it filled the entire surface.
Shade and volume emerge by applying varying levels of pressure on the paper.
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@AndTartary
It’s because early photography was a slow and laborious process, the camera needed to gather light for up to an hour, so no movement would show up on the final image. Hence the first person on a picture (1838) is someone getting his shoes shined, which could take a while.
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@RomanianLiberal
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Sacrificing reproductive potential in order to attain a high-status career and material prosperity? Can’t imagine that happening today lol
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Spent the weekend in fog-shrouded Oxford at the behest of friends studying there.
My first time. It seduced me entirely.
Even on pictures, one can still hear the architecture humming its Song of stone and masonry.
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If I may suggest some reading on medieval art, Huizinga’s masterpiece:
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us.”
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@HalfSickShadows
@johnhawkinsrwn
@iproposethis
Actually, kinda, when you take into account that most school shooters are raised by single mothers…
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@Hieraaetus
English IS already the pairing - the poetic beauty of Latin vocabulary fused with the modulable syntax and grammer of Germanic languages. Hence English’s unique ability to mix high and low prose effortlessly, probably best exemplified by Shakespeare.
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Hell.
In John Berger’s essay on Bosch, he identifies what all depictions of Hell in painting share: a sense of extreme agitation and effort that never cease, nor lead anywhere. Causality severed from its cause, an eternal, twisting Now.
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Rembrandt - Bathsheba at her Bath
“He painted her stomach and navel with love and pity, as if they were a face.
There isn’t a belly in European art painted with a fraction of this devotion.
It has become the center of its own story.”
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@egy_philosopher
No one mentioned the theory that the boys group plunged into rule-breaking behaviour because they’re far more chastised and surveilled in school, in public etc than girls are and so experienced this moment of anarchic freedom as a compensation for what they’ve been deprived of.
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“Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing,
but rejoices with the truth.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Happy Valentine’s day to all!
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Antonello da Messina - Annunciation
Time devours all of Man's creations.
They may survive centuries, perhaps even millennia, yet all eventually rejoin the absolute and universal darkness from which they emerged.
There's a somber beauty to the futility of human toils...
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@Tocharus
Hitler was a poor painter. The very example you provided shows as much - a complete lack of perspective and shading, the building is squished and awkward. Once again, why do you post Schiele’s later work and not the ones that got him into the Academy?
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Bartolomé Bermejo - Saint Michael triumphs over the Devil
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“The purpose of Nature is Man, and the purpose of Man is Style.”
- Piet Mondrian
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The delicate opulence of Scythian gold. Can you picture a female Scythian warrior - a true Amazon - clad in gold and silk, galloping towards you with raised sword?
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Charles V seized by madness in the forests near Le Mans.
15th Century
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Fra Filippo Lippi - Coronation of the Virgin
Spoleto Cathedral
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@vorticistgirl
It’s quite sad that one can achieve the highest academic credential in the field of Litterature without needing to study and explore fiction, one of the pillars of the Western literary tradition and a lasting bellweather for larger changes in how we interact with the written word
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@synekura_audio
In my humble opinion, this whole segment of WoS is extremely flawed. Berger cherrypicks his examples, completely ignoring the canonic representation of Narcissus as an icon of male vanity, and conflates the allegorical depiction of Vanity with actual depictions of women.
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