This plate totally looks modern contemporary rather than 16-17th century contemporary. I can only imagine the looks it got at the time for being so avant garde.
Tag: 16th century
Friday
Nothing to see here but a little man titty on Valentine’s Day…
Thursday
On the one hand, this is extremely gorgeous and a wonderful example of enameling. On the other hand, the Virgin Mary looks like she’s going, “Oh shit, are you fucking kidding me?” in response to the news that she’s going to have the baby Jesus. Guess it’s not just the modern teenaged mothers with the elements of shock and awe on their side, eh?
Wednesday
This icon not only shimmers, it glows. It’s a unique kind of enameling process and a unique outcome, and definitely a hell of a result.
Saturday
This is an amazing piece of cultural Japanese history and we’re lucky that it’s survived, seeing as how floods and earthquakes and fires and wars and things. And that we know who it represents and why he is so important historically – especially in context today – makes it even more important now.
Saturday
So… fun times. Religious art again. Because, ya know, Bible Belt and all. I am not a massive fan, but hey, it’s a huge part of our world heritage and so on and so forth. Whatever, it’s a thing. What bothers me about this is the descriptive plaque being completely ignorant about the fact that Mary would likely not have owned a Torah, and likely she would not have been reading even had she been a wealthy Jewish woman of the time, let alone marrying a carpenter – but yeah, let’s creatively fudge the facts to fit the Jesus mythos.
Friday
*waves from the cheap seats* I want to prop my papers on this and lecture like a bitch for hours at a time and make people miserable for… Oh wait, isn’t that like talking into the internet void about art?
Sunday
I know armour’s purpose is to protect you, but in most cases, does it have to literally be so ostentatiously bloody shiny? You don’t have to carry your entire wealth on your body to protect your dumb fighting ass. In fact, you’d think it would be detrimental to the fighting, all that shininess, all that glare…
Saturday
I can see how this would have looked 100% different brand new, before urban blight and icon worship set in. It would have been a glorious thing; now it’s just kind of sad, really. I mean, it’s still beautiful and a super high level of craftsmanship, but it just looks like it’s been used and abused for a few hundred years.
Friday
It’s crazy to go into a museum and walk up to artwork and go, “My ancestor made that.” I do that every time I come to this painting. It’s a surreal feeling.