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Shortly before her death, she compiled her favourite paintings for a new book, Sister Wendy’s 100 Best-loved Paintings. Part One: 6th – 14th centuries. 1 Virgin and Child (c. 6th century) - Was Temple Gallery, now sold. 2 Christ Pantokrator (6th century) - St Catherine’s Monastary, Sinai, Egypt.
- Plantain, ‘A Bruiser of a Weed
Plantain is a bruiser of a weed with dark green leaves,...
- Plantain, ‘A Bruiser of a Weed
Feb 22, 2023 · St. Paul in Art. In art from practically any era St. Paul is easy to identify by his long, pointy beard and receding hairline. Medieval portraits almost always use a sword as his attribute, and many of them continue to give him the book or scroll seen in his earliest images.
Mar 17, 2014 · Paul saw the love of a bridegroom for his bride. In one of the most famous (and controversial) passages he ever penned, the apostle describes the passion and death of Jesus in terms of the love of a husband for his wife.
We had a twofold objective in studying these passages. First, we answered the question of “will every believer be the eternal wife of Christ or only those who make themselves ready as a bride during their life”; and second we attempted to discover what do each of these passages teach.
- But Is She Pregnant?
- Renaissance Pregnancy
- Renaissance Dress and Gender Norms
- A New Question
Jan van Eyck’s equally enigmatic and iconic Arnolfini Portrait often prompts art history newcomers and experts alike to ask: is the female figure pregnant? Questions about the presence of pregnancy in the portrait are so common that the London National Gallery’s websiteaddresses the issue on the second line of the painting’s official explanatory te...
The highly-gendered Renaissance world produced widely disparate male and female lived experiences. While a man generally married in his third or fourth decade, allowing him ample time to grow his business or estate, women became brides ideally between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. Women, therefore, were expected to and did spend the majority ...
While the Arnolfini Portraitforegrounds many domestic objects, dress takes center stage. Both outfits in the portrait are ludicrously expensive and detailed, but the woman’s clothing outshines her husband’s. This excessive disparity in color and yardage is perfectly in line with Renaissance fashion and gender difference. Men’s outfits tended to be ...
Perhaps the question we should be asking when considering the Arnolfini Portrait is not “is the female figure pregnant?” Instead, we can consider why the female figure appears to be pregnant. The persistent illusion asks us to consider Renaissance gender roles, as well as our own beliefs concerning depictions of women in pre-modern art. The woman i...
Jul 7, 2011 · The work for which he is most often remembered is his extraordinarily lavish edition of Aesop’s Fables (1666); but in the years leading up to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 Barlow was also the prime designer of political satire in support of the Whigs.
Nov 17, 2019 · Hung in the fifteenth-century Netherlandish painting room of the National Gallery, Jan van Eyck’s 1434 Arnolfini Portrait has been a source of intrigue, mystery and vastly differing readings since its purchase by the gallery in 1842.
