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Benedetto da Maiano, Adoring angel, terracotta, c. 1480-1485
Bergamo, Accademia Carrara

28.07.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rogier van der Weyden, St Columba Altarpiece, central part: Adoration of the Magi, c. 1455
Munich, Alte Pinakothek
Detail: a street in โ€œBethlehemโ€

23.07.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

22.07.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tilman 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.

22.07.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anonymous Munich artist, Pietร , terracotta (polychromy lost), 1480s
Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

21.07.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Quinten Massys, The triptych of Lukas Rem of Augsburg, detail of right wing: St Roch attended by an angel, after 1518
Munich, Alte Pinakothek.

20.07.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Juli Op de voorgrond rechts staat een boer van middelbare leeftijd met een sikkel in de hand. Op de achtergrond het hooien en het maaien van het gras. Middenboven in de wolken het astrologisch teken van de Leeuw. De prent heeft een Latijns onderschrift en is deel van een twaalfdelige serie over de maanden van het jaar.

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Quinten 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.

20.07.2025 06:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

19.07.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

18.07.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Niccolรฒ dell'Arca, Lamentation of Christ, terracotta, early 1460s
Bologna, church of Santa Maria della Vita
Details: Mary Magdalene

17.07.2025 07:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The nave ceiling is Victorian, though

17.07.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Niccolรฒ dell'Arca, Lamentation of Christ, terracotta, early 1460s
Bologna, church of Santa Maria della Vita
Details: Nicodemus, one of the Marys

16.07.2025 06:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

15.07.2025 05:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jan van Steffeswert and workshop, St Barbara, early 16th c.
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum

14.07.2025 05:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jan van Steffeswert, Female saint (St Cecilia ?), oak, dated 1501
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum

13.07.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jan van Steffeswert, St Odilia (or perhaps Mary Magdalene), signed and dated 1509.
Brussels, KMKGB/MRAHB

12.07.2025 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Prachtig, kende ik niet. Maar de huidige opstelling kan niet de oorspronkelijke zijn - zie de Annunciatie.

12.07.2025 06:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Edward Clydesdale Thomson - Bound to the Miraculous (after Bas Jan Ader)

www.groningermuseum.nl/kunst/tentoo...

11.07.2025 06:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Constantin Brancusi, Le commencement du monde, bronze, 1924
Otterlo, Krรถller-Mรผller Museum

11.07.2025 05:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Auguste Rodin, Head of a bishop, terracotta, 1895
Paris, Musรฉe Rodin
(photograph: museum)

10.07.2025 05:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Self Portrait Coffee Mug by Artemisia Gentileschi Self Portrait Coffee Mug by Artemisia Gentileschi. Small (11 oz.)

fineartamerica.com/featured/sel...

09.07.2025 06:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Auguste Rodin, The severed head of St John the Baptist, bronze, 1887
Paris, Musรฉe dโ€™Orsay
(photograph: RMN)

09.07.2025 05:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Auguste Rodin, Head of a bishop, terracotta, 1895
Paris, Musรฉe Rodin

08.07.2025 05:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jean Carriรจs, The severed head of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Irelands, bronze, 1887
Paris, Musรฉe dโ€™Orsay
(photograph: museum)

07.07.2025 06:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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