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The Dead Christ
“One of the child prodigies of the Italian Renaissance (by the time he was seventeen, he had his own artist’s studio), Andrea Mantegna, (1431-1506) favored a sharp, linear style of draftsmanship and enjoyed experimenting with perspective. One of his most daring yet successful efforts is this The Dead Christ.
The technique he employed is called for shortening, a kind of optical illusion that compresses a long figure - in this case the body of Jesus - into a space too short for it. The trick (which Mantegna pulled off perfectly) is to keep the image from appearing distorted.
Mantegna painted this as if the viewer were kneeling at the foot of the tomb slab - that is the intended perspective of the picture… And the feet themselves, which hang over the edge of the slab, also appear to project out of the canvas”.
—The Book of Art by Thomas J. Craughwell
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My icons.
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inky:
Everyone who gets this is probably asleep.
“Hello. Yes, this is dog” in Gaeilge (Irish language)
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Icon painter at work. (Taken with instagram)
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Icon painter at work. (Taken with instagram)
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Copy of the ‘Kelmscott Chaucer’, published by William Morris in 1896, his last major artistic project, at Wightwick Manor.
(via totallyunmasked)
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Chindia Tower in Târgovişte, Romania, built by Vlad Dracula, in the 15th century. The tower is 27 meters high, and 9 meters in diameter, and is a historical monument, presently being home to a collection of documents, weapons, and objects belonging to the Wallachian ruler.
photo by CristianChirita
(via ro-mania)
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Saint Kassiani was a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer.
She wrote the beautiful troparion that is sung on Holy Tuesday Evening (tonight).
