segunda-feira, maio 13, 2024

Transi

Fontes: Curso História Online, Wikipedia Um transi, também dito tumba memento mori  e, popularmente, tumba de cadáver, é um tipo de efígie na forma de um cadáver em decomposição, particularmente característica da arte tumular da Idade Média posterior. Contexto Uma representação pintada de um transi, na...

Cologne Cathredal

"In 1857, a famous poet-Düsseldorfer, Heinrich Heine, was once asked why gothic cathedrals don’t get built anymore. His answer was: 'In those days men had convictions, whereas we moderns...

A Handsome Gothic Structure

Source: The Irish Aesthete By theirishaesthete ‘Callan; a market town of mean appearance in the barony of Kells, and a corporation, sending two representatives to parliament; it is situated on the King’s...

How Dürer shaped the modern world

Source: New Statement Philip Hoare explores how the artist’s obsession with science, magic and self-promotion paved the way for our existential age.  BY SUE PRIDEAUX In 1520 Albrecht Dürer travelled to Zeeland to...

Contest of The Cathedrals – the Gothic Pperiod | DW Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eGWHxbTSO8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UvBLmdBMU

The Romanesque Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UvBLmdBMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UvBLmdBMU

Another Grey World: Brutalism in Berlin

Source: Slow Travel Berlin Jesse Simon visits some of Berlin’s notable Brutalist–and Brutal-ish–buildings… In the eighties and nineties, few things were more reviled than raw, unfinished concrete. Architects who had no...

Au temps des cathédrales : l’époque gothique | ARTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KowqiEYsTUQ&fbclid=IwAR0QV3td6s1NOqRtGGbFjsNS17VAtjDJ_vpli3-V5ILy-QuViX0LsoSYVRw

How Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) Painting

Source: Vulture September 28, 2020 Three revolutionary works still speak to us of doubt, inspiration, and grace. By Jerry Saltz@jerrysaltz Michelangelo Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600). Photo: Public Domain Again and again during this pandemic,...

William Mortensen, o Anti-Cristo de Hollywood

Fonte: ArteRef.com, 7 de junho de 2020 Por Paulo Varella  Entre o final da década de 1920 até a década de 1950, William Mortensen foi um dos fotógrafos mais famosos da América....