In the hands, and brushes, of great artists, a religious set-piece becomes a succession of marvellous and highly innovative paintings.
Memling
A selection of paintings by Memling, Bosch, Blake, Tissot, Corinth, and others to mark Easter.
Salome has become a femme fatale, the author of John the Baptist’s death, and a potent erotic symbol. But that was not the original story.
An unusual depiction of this popular theme pursues a harder line, with many details of terrible torments.
Who is the woman martyr being crucified? How do the two wings relate to her story? There’s no shortage of mysteries here.
A close-in view shows Christ and a dozen other figures, but the cross itself is projected unusually.
The only panel surviving from a triptych. An original composition and almost personal involvement of the viewer.
A truly giant saint, in a landscape with sinister and disturbing events taking place.
Bosch’s Passion Scenes is an unusual painting, combining multi-frame and multiplex narrative in the round. Is it unique?
I have several times written that early western painting, until the late Renaissance, not uncommonly incorporated multiple copies […]
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