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| Rembrandt, The Sacrifice of Abraham, 1635 |
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| Waterhouse, The Annunciation, 1914 |
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| Rossetti, Annunciation, 1865 |
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| Campin, The Merode Altarpiece, 1425-1428 |
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| Cimabue, Madonna and Child, 1280-1285 |
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| Raphael, Sistine Madonna, 1513-1514 |
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| Lippi, Madonna and Child with Angels, c. 1467 |
Hi!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the podcasts - I've really enjoyed them so far! :)
This podcast made me think of a very popular Finnish painting, "The Wounded Angel" (1903) by Hugo Simberg. Simberg portrayed devils as sympathetic and angels as fragile, vulnerable creatures. You can find information about The Wounded Angel at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wounded_Angel
By the way, Simberg also did a series of paintings with death motif (some of them really humorous) which might be interesting to check out also. He thought that life and death, good and evil were just different shades of the same thing and that opposites are a part of life, so death was shown as something comforting, almost like a guardian angel of sorts (more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Death) which I thought was interesting.
How different artists have depicted death through different eras might be a cool (albeit morbid) subject...?
Keep up the great work, ladies! :)
- Auri from Helsinki, Finland.
Oooo interesting! Thank you Auri!
DeleteCarrie Espinoza