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The "working class guy" is a rower. The rowers are in a skull and not a canoe. This painting hangs in The Art Institute of Chicago, and it's huge. The people are almost life-size. The dots are huge too. I've seen it a bunch of times.
She is wearing a ring on her left hand, I'd wager it is after the ceremony, and that also goes with this totally helpless rage in her eyes. It is done. Too late now.
It's log, it's log, It's big, it's heavy, it's wood. It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good. Everyone wants a log You're gonna love it, log Come on and get your log Everyone needs a log
Jan was a diplomat by profession, Till Holger Borchert has a project open for a researcher. He first appears with Guillaume Dufay in the retinue of Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly, the convenor of the Council of Constance (1414-18) where the Papal Schism was sorted out, by inverting the power structure in the Council. To do that, they needed an academic justification, which at that time required a quadrivium case to be constructed. This took the form of Jan van Ruusbroec's Spiritual Tabernacle, backed by Dufay's L'Homme Armé, covering the arithmetical/musical facets, and van Eyck's Mystic Lamb and Fountain of Life. for the geometric/cosmological facets. The last piece was only rediscovered in the 1990s, when the general review of all attributions overturned the facile "1454 therefore atelier of van Eyck" with dendrochronological dating, the tree which supplied the boards having been felled in 1418. A ten-year seasoning period would have followed, dating it to 1428 or slightly later, and that coincides with a diplomatic trip van Eyck undertook, staying at the monastery of the Parral in Segovia, which is where it lived, slowly being glued to the sacristy wall by 400 years of whitewash, until the general dissolution of the monasteries in 1838 saw it bundled up with the rest of the future Prado collection, warehoused in the Monastery of the Trinidade, just down he road opposite the Atocha station. It was at that point the mistake was made, based on the earliest record in the Monastery's "Libero de Bercel" (Vellum Book) asset register: that simply recorded it's presence in 1454, so a correct dating should have read "Before 1454". What it was doing there, rather than in the general context of Flemish Burgundy, is anyone's guess. Maybe it was a practice sketch: in any case, I think it's intended context was in another chapel entirely, now demolished, in Brussels. The aftermath of Constance was that th schismatic Popes were fired, and a stop-gap appointed to placate the traditionalists, selected as ever from the pool of Cardinals drawn from a very limited group of Roman famiglias (extended family clans common to many European Cities at the time, think of the Montagues and Capulets). Martin V was very obviously picked for his own illness: this was a time when the trauma of the waves of plague which followed the Black Death made mortality real, as seen here. He'd do the job of reintegrating the Church, and join his predecessors. d'Ailly hadn't counted on the Papal nuns, who attend to the Holy Father's mundane needs for food and laundry, recognising lactose intolerance, so they switched him to goat's milk, the guy recovered and lived to an inconvenient old age, dying in 1430. It was only then that the need behind the sort-out became evident, as the works I mentioned followed the coronation of the next Pope, Eugenius IV. He wasn't Roman, but Venetian, Marcine rather than Petrine, because the Holy Roman Empire had a need to defend itself against the Ottoman incursions into the lands of it's Austro-Hungarian vassals at the mouth of the Danube. This had in fact become clear shortly before the Council was convened, as complaints from the Saxon settlers of the area about the behaviour of the Voivode Vlad Dracula, had reached imperial ears: a classic case of adolescent CPTSD. To sort the Ottomans, Christianity had to get it's act together, and when the French tried to hijack the agenda, d'Ailly did the same to them as he did to Jan Huss, arranged for their transfer to a higher court. Hus was burned at the stake, the Valois suckered into a trap we call Agincourt and massacred. However, the delay caused by Martin's survival allowed them to recover in the hands of another generation, and another d'Ailly, Jehane, surnamed d'Arc, restarted the war. As a result, the HRE/Pontifical call to crusade went unanswered, the HRE went alone, and got trounced at Varna. Meanwhile, shortly before his death in 1381, Ruusbroec had passed the initiative to Gerardus Groot, and that led to the creation of the Fellowship of the Common Life and Windesheim. One of the earliest graduates is the Venetian Gabriele Condulmer, who became the next Pope Eugenius IV, who turned out to be a disaster as his call to crusade fell flat, and the Lombard Finance Houses took their revenge by annexing the Papacy.
What was with the "tiny hand" holding the left-side girl's hand up above the bride's head? It does not look like a glove to me + the left hand you can see the thumbnail, which you wouldn't if she were wearing a glove. I'm thinking of "unexpected death" symbolism of hands on a gravestone.
Thanks, very interesting perspective and background. One of my favorite Sondheim musicals is "Sunday in the park with George", And the televised play With Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette peters Can be seen in full on RU-vid. It tells the imagined life of George Surat And Dovetails nicely with your video here. I highly recommend watching it.
It is interesting how the symbolism of the work switched almost completely with the passage of time. Any condemnation that was visible in the 1800s now would be seen as liberating. Simply a desperate man pursuing a disinterested woman who actively bucks any attempt of his to instill his values because they are to her confinement and a trap.
She just looks like she is *done* with the whole thing. Just leave her alone for fifteen minutes. She's probably been up since before sunrise and just wants the day to be over.
we can all agree this painting is very sexy. the only problem is that the depuction reveals the strict victorian rules people were under that caused real issues such as miscarriage and infidelity. great video and channel.
It's actually in PewDiePie's game, Tuber Simulator. BUT, they took both the boats and Mt Fuji out. Other than that, it's a great representation in pixel art.
Thanks! Just a little something to tide you through your recent sabbatical. I have recommended your video on Schenck's "Anguish" to the folks who framed my copy, so maybe you'll have an additional viewer or two on your subscriber list.
Saw this painting at the Chicago Art Institute and a few years ago the studies for it that live in the French Impressionism rooms at the Met. This was true of a lot of artists at the met. They may have the larger collection but Chicago has the BETTER collections with the most important pieces.
My nan was told about how sex happened on the night before her marriage by her elder, married sister, because her own mother could not bring herself to talk about it. My nan married around 1925 at the age of 24. Until then she'd been kept in total ignorance about "how babies are made".
My great great granny fell in love with and married a poor fisherman. She didn't have parental approval. They disowned and disinherited her and left all their money to the Crown. She was allowed to take her grandchild to visit her grandparents at their big house, but she had to go round to the tradesmans' entrance and was not officially received at the front door. Being forced into an arranged marriage wasn't the only way things could go very badly for a young woman in the 19th century.
To be married off like a pice of property back then was both life sentencing and beneficial. On one side you could be doomed to an abusive marriage but on the other side, society would never allow you to survive financially as a single woman.
I LOVE your videos! But I have a question about this one--when you say we can't be sure if the scene is before or after the wedding, isn't that a wedding ring on the fourth finger of the bride's left hand? So this would be after the ceremony (when the bride is now dealing with the fact that in a few hours she's got to sleep with this guy). I also wonder if the bride's upturned eyes represent that she's swooning, overwhelmed with the realization of what's happened--but probably not, just a thought. That would explain why the two other women are holding her hands and comforting her, though.
It's not prussian blue. Prussian blue is a manufactured blue tone sold by a specific art paint supplier. The blue's used in this painting are by Hokusai and his knowledge of Japanese made paints and dyes. Yes the color might be similar to western arts because the dye is from similar local sources that grow on Japan. Please stop being confused.
Does this angry snotty narrator have anything positive to say? Yeah yeah we all get it..🙄🥱 you believe you have a unique perspective & present your misandry & hateful critiques under the guise of an edgy alter ego of , ‘’OMFG I AM soo stunning & brave & can anyone believe I’m this much of a nonconformist ?!” However, the conformity of being another ANGRY feminist pretending as if she doesn’t CLEARLY have an insane amount of choice being a woman that likely lives in one of the best countries for FREEDOM of CHOICE of damn near any & everything, in this modern era - just exhausts the viewer! I’d LOVE to know what EXACTLY was ‘’relatable’’ for THIS ArtDeco narrator w/ this interesting piece? Did SHE come from wealth & was SHE actually FORCED into a supposed loveless marriage of convenience for personal gain or to please her family ?
At the time in 1860 there was a political movement of women for more equal rights, so some women ride horses like men, or writing ladies like George Sand and many more. About 1870 there was a revolution in Paris it was called Commune of Paris, anarchists, communist ruled Paris for a while. Sadly it didn’t last long.
