Benedetto da Maiano, Adoring angel, terracotta, c. 1480-1485
Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
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Benedetto da Maiano, Adoring angel, terracotta, c. 1480-1485
Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
Rogier van der Weyden, St Columba Altarpiece, central part: Adoration of the Magi, c. 1455
Munich, Alte Pinakothek
Detail: a street in โBethlehemโ
Hans Memling, The Adoration of the Magi and scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin, 1480
Munich, Alte Pinakothek
Amidst the many figures, but in the centre, the painter himself, peeping through the window of the stable
Today is Mary Magdalene's feast. Perhaps superfluous to remark: the Mary Magdalene celebrated today is very different from the one celebrated in the Middle Ages.
22.07.2025 07:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Tilman Riemenschneider, Mary Magdalene as anchoress
lifted up by angels, from the Mรผnnerstadt retable,
limewood, 1490-1492
Mรผnchen, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Detail: hirsute legs and feathery angelic arms.
Anonymous Munich artist, Pietร , terracotta (polychromy lost), 1480s
Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Detail of the detail: the man with the halberd is probably the owner of the dog in the foreground that daily delivered a roll to Roch. In the background a house, with the man, now without halberd, sitting behind a table, and Roch approaching from the right.
20.07.2025 19:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Quinten Massys, The triptych of Lukas Rem of Augsburg, detail of right wing: St Roch attended by an angel, after 1518
Munich, Alte Pinakothek.
Interesting, I did not recognize the print as by Callot. It was apparently copied from an existing print: id.rijksmuseum.nl/200175343
20.07.2025 18:40 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Quinten Massys, The triptych of Lukas Rem of Augsburg, after 1518
Munich, Alte Pinakothek.
Detail: St Roch. A patron saint against the plague, from which he himself suffered โ see the plague sore on his leg, tenderly revealed by the angel.
Michael Pacher, The vision of St Sigisbert, exterior of the right wing of the retable of the Four Doctors of the Church, c. 1480
Munich, Alte Pinakothek
The detail shows a curious combination of mitre and halo
Fra Bartolommeo, The adoration of the Christ Child, c. 1495
Munich, Alte Pinakothek
Details: the reflections in the haloes of the Christ Child and the small St John the Baptist.
Niccolรฒ dell'Arca, Lamentation of Christ, terracotta, early 1460s
Bologna, church of Santa Maria della Vita
Details: Mary Magdalene
And the monk at the feet of Christ is in all likelihood the the commissioner of the ms. (who is not Eberhard).
17.07.2025 07:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The nave ceiling is Victorian, though
17.07.2025 06:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Niccolรฒ dell'Arca, Lamentation of Christ, terracotta, early 1460s
Bologna, church of Santa Maria della Vita
Details: Nicodemus, one of the Marys
Niccolรฒ dell'Arca, Lamentation of Christ, terracotta, early 1460s
Bologna, church of Santa Maria della Vita
The entire group in its current location (which is not the orginal one) is difficult to photograph.
Jan van Steffeswert and workshop, St Barbara, early 16th c.
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum
Jan van Steffeswert, Female saint (St Cecilia ?), oak, dated 1501
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum
Jan van Steffeswert, St Odilia (or perhaps Mary Magdalene), signed and dated 1509.
Brussels, KMKGB/MRAHB
Prachtig, kende ik niet. Maar de huidige opstelling kan niet de oorspronkelijke zijn - zie de Annunciatie.
12.07.2025 06:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Constantin Brancusi, Le commencement du monde, bronze, 1924
Otterlo, Krรถller-Mรผller Museum
Auguste Rodin, Head of a bishop, terracotta, 1895
Paris, Musรฉe Rodin
(photograph: museum)
Auguste Rodin, The severed head of St John the Baptist, bronze, 1887
Paris, Musรฉe dโOrsay
(photograph: RMN)
The 'book' ('volumen') the prophet Ezekiel is eating seems to be a scroll rather than a book as we know it.
08.07.2025 06:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Auguste Rodin, Head of a bishop, terracotta, 1895
Paris, Musรฉe Rodin
Jean Carriรจs, The severed head of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Irelands, bronze, 1887
Paris, Musรฉe dโOrsay
(photograph: museum)
The man in the initial is Paulus (Julius Paulus), a Roman jurist active in the 3rd c. Excerpts from his writings are included in the Digest.
06.07.2025 06:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0