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Perhaps Masaccio inserted the least creditable event in St Julian's life as a warning against reckless anger, yet it seems unfitting in an altarpiece partly in the saint's honour.
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The exuberant decadence of such pictures aroused, in the most famously prudish of English art historians, something akin to a sexual terror, so that even when looking at Bronzino's religious altarpieces he saw nothing but bodies orgiastically intertwined in a carnal hell.
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A side chapel holds Jan van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, a huge altarpiece designed to be folded into sections, painted in 1432.
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But it was not the grand heroic altarpieces that gave the show its real soul.
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Altarpieces and private devotional diptychs were commissioned from the painters de Beaumetz, Jean Malouel, Henri Bellechose, and Melchior Broederlam, all of whom were court painters at various times.
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I suggest that these connotations, reiterated and readapted in the context of Marian doctrine and female monasticism, are the key to Andrea del Sarto's altarpiece.
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The boys begin by carrying in the monstrance, a huge, gilded altarpiece that holds and displays the Sacrament.
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Combining art and mass education, Lutheran artists also carefully redefined their own social role, now that the creation of statuary, frescoes, and altarpieces was condemned as ‘idolatrous’.
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While the main panel of the altarpiece portrays a story of communal inclusion, the predella bears a story of social exclusion.
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It was merchants such as Nicolas Roxcox, wrapped in Baltic furs, who encouraged Rubens to repopulate parish churches with altarpieces of exceptional quality.
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Pople's exhibition, titled Bellini 21c, includes a work called Altarpiece in which the figures in the famous Bellini altarpiece in Venice are obscured by an image of a woman being penetrated from behind and having oral sex.
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The tondo, much more so than the altarpiece, was not a clear-cut category in quattrocento and early cinquecento Florence.
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In other words, either artist could have - and, indeed, must have - painted these passages of sprezzatura for the altarpiece to be legible from a distance.
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The sacramental ritual performed by the Corpus Domini priest differs subtly from that delivered by Christ in the Corpus Domini Altarpiece.
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Several authors, for example, observed that Rubens consciously painted the altarpiece for the Oratorians in Rome in the style of Paolo Veronese.
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The picture would be further cleaned with various solvents, gradually wiping away multiple layers of overpainting to which altarpieces and other works had been subjected over the centuries.
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Yet, being multipartite, they call to mind the predella panels of early Renaissance altarpieces.
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The Coronation altarpiece may well have been funded through a gift of land donated to the cloister at the end of the first decade of the quattrocento.
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Light plays a key role throughout the altarpiece, and the word's absence perhaps explains why there is no text from the antiphon at all in Daret's Nativity.
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I thought of the medieval Netherlandish altarpieces I love so much: Sometimes the central panel -- be it a picture of the annunciation, the crucificion, or a martyrdom -- is flanked by panels depicting portraits of the altarpiece donors (often husband and wife, male and female).
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In the context of the Counter-Reformation, there is also a fascinating echo here of the standard format of an altarpiece, with the satyrs and maenads at the foot of the painting taking the place normally occupied by donors.
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Only the wealthy could afford elaborate tombs, commission altarpieces or frescos, or had the time and skills required to record the ballads sung by troubadours at court or peasants in the fields.
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It gave the altarpiece an appearance similar to other religious objects made from precious materials, such as reliquaries, censers, patens, and chalices, reminding us of a concept known in economics as ‘substitute acquisition.’
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The painting was in fact copied in a mosaic altarpiece at the Capella Clementia, St. Peter's, Rome.
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In the altarpiece Mantegna portrays the Madonna extending her hand and bestowing special favor on the marquis, who is dressed in full armor.
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Luther's unprecedented reconstruction of church imaging was innovatory in proposing the form that altarpieces should take.
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Yet, being multipartite, they call to mind the predella panels of early Renaissance altarpieces.
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Squinny-eyed merchants squeezed their likenesses on to the wings of altarpieces they had paid for.
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Presented in a folding triptych format reminiscent of Orthodox altarpieces, the black-and-white prints on wood celebrate the life and traditions of a community too often treated with disdain.
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An altarpiece or retable, is a decorated panel attached to or set directly behind the altar.
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But even that older altarpiece was itself rather underpowered from the few photos I have seen of it.
The Lost Reredos of St. John the Divine
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Cecil Gould has sustained that the altarpiece includes a self-portrait of the artist in the guise of his name saint, Saint Anthony of Padua.
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Leafy branches hover above the shrine figures in the altarpieces of Tilman Riemenschneider and his contemporaries.
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The central panel of this intact triptych altarpiece depicts the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, together with other saints, flanked by donors.
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The central panel of this intact triptych altarpiece depicts the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, together with other saints, flanked by donors.
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By 1300 the arch and gable motif was ubiquitous on wall arcading, tombs, shrine bases, ivories, and liturgical furnishings, the largest and most prominent of which were painted altarpieces.
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They also painted altarpieces and easel paintings for collectors, and developed genres such as landscape.
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The Grünewald altarpiece had also been a favourite of the German expressionists, being the starting point for Emil Nolde's famous Crucifixion of 1912.
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The gangrene often compelled amputation, and it has been noted in this connection that the two movable halves of the predella [base] of the altarpiece, if slid apart, make it appear as if the legs of Christ have been amputated.
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This private altarpiece says little for the modesty of the canon, whose coat-of-arms with a hare is blazoned at the hem of the Virgin's robe in the corner of the picture.
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Although it is often described as an altarpiece, this painting is far more likely to have served as an epitaph - a potential function of this and other pictures by Van Eyck that needs further study.
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The Getty drawing must have been made in connection with a project for a painting, presumably an altarpiece, though no such picture is known.
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The painted retables and carved altarpieces favored the ‘recollection, even the reliving of the moments of the Passion’.
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Of course, Catholic England believed in the real presence of Christ himself in the Mass, and altarpieces like this were designed to remind the worshipper of the fact.
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This willful perversion of the prevailing practices of late medieval spiritual devotions is reinforced by Bosch's use of the very form traditionally devoted to altarpieces: the triptych.
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Elsewhere, the large-scale painting of a girl-child is installed as a kind of altarpiece, (the above, clearly, is not an installation shot) with a wooden railing surround and shag carpet designed to suggest gradated steps into the shrine ...
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The key to the most profound meaning of the altarpiece may well be St Margaret of Antioch, the saint in red on the right, and the protectress of all pregnant women.
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We can detect a loosening of the brush in some of Garofalo's other paintings, notably in the drapery and visually resonant landscape of the Suxena Altarpiece.
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The figures seem to fly like angels through a celestial space, painted on a great altarpiece.
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Despite superficial resemblances to their medieval predecessors, these Lutheran altarpieces share a number of striking new features.
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It meant that Rubens had to redo the altarpiece at his own expense and add two lateral paintings.
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The Italian preference for an altarpiece focused on one painting did not catch on in Spain.
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They also painted altarpieces and easel paintings for collectors, and developed genres such as landscape.
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We read this image afresh through the author's eyes, seeing how to interpret the crucifix which is at the heart of Luther's service of the word, as well as a constant presence in Cranach's altarpieces.
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He received a commission for the altarpiece, to be painted for the royally patronized convent church in Madrid.
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Guy Buffington's church had a small spire, a hand-carved granite altarpiece, and some very fine stone columns.
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The eastern windows are obscured by a vast Baroque altarpiece.
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They painted almost exclusively altarpieces in a dramatic late Baroque style.
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Positioned asymmetrically, an ornate, 17 th-century altarpiece marks the entrance to the baptistery and the nave just beyond.
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But what strikes most visitors is the dramatic altar and reredos, or carved altarpiece, with tall statues of saints backed by scarlet curtains.
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It was merchants such as Nicolas Roxcox, wrapped in Baltic furs, who encouraged Rubens to repopulate parish churches with altarpieces of exceptional quality.
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Its quality of the plain and unadorned could rake the form of words only as in the various text altarpieces illustrated here.
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Gaspare Celio, writing in 1638, divides the work, stating that the altarpiece is by Giulio Romano and that all the paintings above the cornice (that is, in the lunettes and in the vault) are by Penni.
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And we should not forget that the altarpiece's narrative culminated in the sculpted Coronation of Mary, an event also depicted on the top of Abbot du Clercq's crozier in the Visitation.
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Following his return from Italy, Van Dyck painted many altarpieces.
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With the agonized reach of his rigid left arm and the crucifixate tilt of his crossed feet, the defrosting mummy struck a pose that wouldn't look out of place in a 14th-century altarpiece.
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Ms. Zygas, citing security reasons, would not say why the altarpiece and the tapestries are the only two artworks in the Cloisters that are protected by motion sensors.
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Specifically, the Hood Museum of Art has acquired a variety of paintings, including an altarpiece, several easel paintings and some small devotional panels.
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This maybe the sonic equivalent of going to see a Bellini altarpiece in an art gallery, but I do not mind.
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After the flood of 1966, the S Ruffillo Altarpiece underwent restoration.
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He produced some altarpieces, but his main speciality was in small cabinet pictures with historical, mythological, or allegorical themes as well as genre and fantastical scenes, such as the witches' sabbath.
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This willful perversion of the prevailing practices of late medieval spiritual devotions is reinforced by Bosch's use of the very form traditionally devoted to altarpieces: the triptych.
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The frescoes by Giulio Romano and Penni in the lunettes and vault were retained and the altarpiece remained in place.
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Art: You can find several neoclasic altarpieces, oil paintings and a chapel dedicated to the Rosario´s Virgin with a singular churrigueresque wooden altarpiece.
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The sombre dark altarpieces of Piazzetta are the last great exemplars of Counter-Reformation religious art, while Tiepolo painted luminous and high-keyed frescoes of religious and mythological subjects.
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Though he painted altarpieces and other religious panels (the only signed work is a diptych with the Carrying of the Cross and Vanitas, 1560; Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmus.), he is best known for his portraits.
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He was astutely generous too with commissions for churches, chapels, convents, vestments and altarpieces.
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Worthy of admiration, too, are several old plateresque rococo altarpieces.
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