https://www.nga.gov/artworks/50-rest-flight-egypt
I come back to this picture again and again.
#Art #Painting #GerardDavid #EarlyNetherlandish #Flemish #NorthernRenaissance #RestOnTheFlightToEgypt #Refugee #VirginAndChild #Mary #Migrant
Pietà -- Probably by the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden -- c.1465 -- National Gallery, London
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This picture is not on display at the moment, but I remember seeing it decades ago and its lodging in my memory as an […]
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A young light-skinned lady in an extravagant green dress sits on the floor with her head and legs curving around her bent knees, emphasizing her absorption in the book she is reading. Although she wears 15th-century clothing in a medieval room, she is a biblical figure: Saint Mary Magdalene. This is a fragment of a large altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with saints painted for a church in Brussels after Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden settled there in 1435. She sits on a red cushion and leans against a carved wooden cabinet. Her overdress is lined with grey fur and cinched in tight around her waist. It falls in bulky folds around her legs, and is turned back so that we can see her cloth of gold underdress. Her loose hair is covered with a white veil, fluted at the edges and tucked behind her ears. She is reading a Bible, written in two columns with large red and blue initials marking different chapters. It is a luxurious volume: the edges and clasps are gilded and it is covered with a white chemise plus fine stitching along the upper edge of the binding and the minuscule cord bookmarks wrapped around the pipe. Through a window, a river winds lazily past with people walking its banks. On the near bank, an archer in a short purple robe and a red hat aims a crossbow. On the far side, a man in red and black is followed by a woman with her reflection in the water. The details and technical sophistication are typical of van der Weyden. Mary’s lips are painted with vermilion, white, and red, striped wet into one another. For the fur edging of her dress, tones of grey, from pure black to nearly pure white, were painted in parallel stripes and then dragged while still wet to produce the furry texture. Many of the details – the ruling of Mary’s book and its fine, colored bookmarks, and a fleur-de-lis, just over 1 millimeter high, painted on the shoe of the archer by the river – must have been almost invisible when the painting was on its altar.
The Magdalen Reading by Rogier van der Weyden (Netherlandish) - Oil on mahogany / c. 1435-1438 - The National Gallery (London, England) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #oilpainting #reading #TheNationalGallery #artwork #RogiervanderWeyden #religiousart #womensart #earlynetherlandish #christianart
Petrus Christus
Madonna of the Dry Tree, 1462–65
Portrait of a Young Girl, 1465–70
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