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Good afternoon Dan,
#40 by VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE
“Noli Me Tangere”
For some reason, it moved me to sorrow. Perhaps it’s the times we are in.
I see/view all of your posts - just so you know, I appreciate them all and appreciate the pings.
Hope all is well with you and yours,
Jack
Luv em all for their ability to express humility...
As I've indicated before, I feel irritated with painterly excesses in this most exalted arena of Christ's supernatural Being having been set free from earthly restraints in these passages; so the many figure studies of barely marked, hairless flesh, amazing pecs, rippling muscles, flowing drapes and immaculate robes (even #6B Tissot, God bless'im) turn me right the heck off. No offense to any of the artists, except for the ones who pushed their paintings more successfully into the realm of symbolism or iconography, such as #16 and its clone at #41, Perugino #36, and the stunning Fra Angelico #46).
#4A Tissot's lovely depiction of the two awe-inspiring angels is likely to ignite the debate again as to whether angels are males or females. I agree with Hebrews 11:6's view that they can be whatever they want. A strongly believing black woman friend of mine whose main education has been mostly the Bible was late to our prayer group one time. She came in shook up, because she said she had had a car accident, at an intersection in a black neighborhood on the way to the church. She said, "I got out of the car. I was so dazed, but two white men came and helped me." Am I, Albion Wilde, wrong to have thought they might have been angels?
I had a similar experience once when passing an horrific car accident on a major highway. Four or five crash victims were laid on the grassy berm, near an overturned car. Beside each, an EMT was crouched, strong young men dressed in immaculate white pants and short-sleeved uniform shirts, gazing down at them. The EMTs' lack of movement and meditative watchfulness made me think the victims had already died, and that they were decently waiting with the bodies until vehicles arrived to take them away. But I also thought they could have been angels, because they were beautiful, they were on one or both knees, and they literally dazzled. I had to keep moving on by in the stream of traffic; but I prayed for the next many miles.
That said, the body language of both figures in #7 Copping and of the Christ in #10 Edelfelt is deeply poignant.
There were many others that appealed to me artistically or because of their idiosyncratic quirks in spite of their aforementioned irritating content, such as #19, #22, #23, #33, #34, #43, #44.
This was a challenging session, Professor Dan! Thank you!