Seek peace, obey
Fear, serve and honor you,
Until death,
Peerless Lady.
(Guillaume de Machaut: Foy porter, XIV century)
image:Frank Dicksee, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Story of Klara Zach
1911 oil painting by Aladar Korosfoi-Kriesch
The Garden of Earthly Delights- Hieronymus Bosch
Detail showing nudes cavorting within a transparent sphere. What appear to be cracks in the sphere, may forecast the fragility of joyful passion. The figures’s arms are entwined, while the female’s head bends towards the male’s attentive mouth. Their innocence contrasts with the atmosphere of the right-hand panel, where human figures are depicted in shame of their nakedness.
The Temptation of St Anthony (detail)- Hieronymus Bosch
In the movie “My Week with Marilyn” there is a scene at the Windsor castle library. The librarian shows Monroe this study, a little different than the original.
It is the Portrait of Margaret à Barow, Lady Eliot. Chalk, pen and brush on pink-primed paper by Hans Holbein the Younger.
The Annunciation, Fra Angelico (1437-1446)
The Mill and the Cross is a 2011 drama film directed by Lech Majewski and starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York.
It is inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1564 painting The Way to Calvary, and based on Michael Francis Gibson’s book The Mill and the Cross.
Mammen Style of Viking Art
The Mammen style (c.960-1020) overlaps both in time and appearance with the Jellinge but shows a more emphatic form on the same theme. Animals have fuller bodies instead of ribbons, spirals on the hips, and often a total covering of billets: the new feature is plant-like tendrils, derived ultimately from Carolingian acanthus.
Two famous caskets were made in the Mammen style, known as the Bamberg and Cammin caskets.
image: The Bamberg casket
Source: visual-arts-cork.com
Droit du seigneur (/ˈdrɑː də seɪnˈjɜr/) is an alleged legal right allowing the lord of a medieval estate to take the virginity of his serfs’ maiden daughters. There is no historical evidence that such a right ever existed.
image: Le Droit du Seigneur, Jules Arsène Garnier (1847-1889)
Source: Wikipedia
Martin Schongauer, Ecce Homo
Engraving
XV century
Ecce Homo
Hieronymus Bosch
between 1475 and 1480
“Ecce Homo,” Quentin Matsys, oil on wood panel, 1520 CE, Doge’s Palace, Venice, Italy
Betende Hände, in English Praying hands
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Why you should glorify Albrecht Dürer
