Showing posts with label Memling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memling. Show all posts

Monday, March 24, 2008

Six Images In Search Of An Exhibition VI

In And Out Of The Secular Sepulcher...Again




Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255-1260 – c. 1318-1319) - The Kiss of Judas, 1308-11




Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 – 1506) - Calvary, 1457-60




Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1400 – 1464) - Deposition, c. 1435




Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) - Lamentation, 1490




Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455) - Entombment, 1438-40




Hans Memling (c. 1430 – 1494) - The Resurrection, with the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and the Ascension


'It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.'

Joseph Campbell

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Eleven Mirrors (November Special)




Hans Memling - Earthly Vanity (c. 1485)




Giovanni Bellini - Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror (1515)




Parmigianino - Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (c. 1524)




Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Narcissus (1598-99)




Peter Paul Rubens - Venus at a Mirror (c. 1615)




Georges de la Tour - The Penitent Magdalen (1638)




Diego Velasquez - Venus at her Mirror (1649-51)




Jean- Baptiste Greuze - The Broken Mirror (1763)




Rene Magritte - Dangerous Liaison (1926)




Pablo Picasso - Girl Before a Mirror (1932)




Barbara Kruger - Who's the Fairest of them All? (date unknown)


"The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied."

Confucious