https://hyperallergic.com/164286/an-artist-remixes-meissen/
Friday, October 12, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018
forbidden fruit ... i suddenly wondered how the forbidden fruit is depicted by artists from other cultures ... i always think it was an apple but what do i know ? .... i'll be adding pictures as and when ... i haven't found many non-apples yet but live in hope ... Q. is William Blake's fruit a gooseberry ?
Bartholomaus Spranger ( 1546 to 1611 ) ... witty self-portrait ... and another, sadder one, affectionately engraved for him by Aegidius Sadeler
self-portrait, c.1580
https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/1816/
painted by spranger, then rendered by his engraver, lodger, and friend, Aegidius Sadeler II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1568–1629 Prague), c.1594
the picture shows spranger with a portrait of his late wife, Christina
from the princeton commentary ...
"Christina Müller was the beloved wife of the Mannerist painter Bartholomeus Spranger. When she died, he painted an allegory in her memory and had it engraved by his friend and colleague Aegidius Sadeler. The elaborate print shows Spranger, surrounded by the personifications of the visual arts. He is pointing to his wife on the right, who is also admired by a putto holding a scull, with one foot on an overturned hourglass. Spranger is ready to follow her but just as Death is about to spear him, Time steps forward to show that the painter’s hourglass is not yet empty.
Inscribed at the bottom of the plate: Priuatas lacrymas Bart. Sprangeri Egid. Sadeler miratus artem et amantem redamans, publicas fecit: et eidem promutua beneuolentia dedicauit. Pragae Anno Seculari . The private tears of Bartholomeus Spranger are made public by Aegidius Sadeler, who admired his art and his marriage; and dedicates the print to him with sincere affection. At Prague in the centennial year."
click-itty-click, then marvelhttps://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2014/06/07/the-private-tears-of-bartholomeus-spranger/
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/359782
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
symbolic icons in fillums
there is a moment in DAYS OF HEAVEN when the girl carelessly drops a crystal wine glass into a running stream, never to be seen again ... when i mentioned the moment to an acquaintance, he said he "doesn't do symbolism" and i thought, "you're well and truly fucked because symbols are what gives our understanding a deeper colour, and you must be afflicted with a colour-blindness in the soul"
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