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SNEAK PEEK: Next time,
HEROD KILLS
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Please see Image #67, at long last in its proper context. Thank you for directing my attention to this wonderful work.
ORAZIO GENTILESCHI, 1628, my favorite.
Superb compilation. Love all the stained glass windows.
#65, a different work from a young Caravaggio, a painting with luminous colors that allow a clear vision of the scene. The scene is divided in two by the angel, on one side we have Joseph, savior and protector of Mary and Jesus; the other side a sleeping mother and child surrounded by rich vegetation. Joseph is obviously tired but, eyes on the angel, holds a musical score. The music has been identified as a 16th c. motet, “Quam Pulchra es” dedicated to the Virgin Mary and based on the Canticle of the Canticles. One of the violin’s chords is broken, allegory of the fragility of human life.
Interesting details: the flask of wine with a cloth plug; the plants around Mary, the laurel which is a symbol of her purity, the rose thorns and the thistle symbol of the Passion of the Christ while the mullein (I think) speaks of the Resurrection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnVf347zkBQ