Follower of Antonis Mor (Utrecht 1517-1575 Antwerp?) Portrait of Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy half-length, in armour, wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece. bears inscription 'DUC.DE SAVOI.' (upper right). oil on panel. 68.5 x 57cm (26 15/16 x...

New evidence has emerged that suggests ancient surgeons in China were drilling or scraping holes in people’s heads more than 3,500 years ago. The process, known as trepanation, was used in various places worldwide in prehistoric through historic times. Researchers think it was done for medical and/or spiritual purposes.

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[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on oak, 27 x 35 cm]

For true believers, the Bruegel room in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum must be the holy grail. Though paintings by the artist occupy two rooms in the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, they …

L'Olanda dedica il 2016 a Jheronimus Bosch, il più importante pittore medioevale dei Paesi Bassi. Una mostra nel Noordbrabants Museum e altre nel Brabante: 13 mostre, per 7 musei in 4 città.

Hiëronymus Bosch, also spelled Jheronimus Bos, pseudonym of Jeroen van Aeken, Aeken also spelled Aquen or Aken, also called Jeroen Anthoniszoon (born c. 1450, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Brabant [now in the Net

Le monde à la fois terrifiant et enchanteur de Jérôme Bosch révèle certaines angoisses et superstitions de son époque.

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L'opera del pittore Hieronymus Bosch può essere un valido aiuto per la catechesi

Until this week I knew only two things about Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569). I knew that he did apocalyptic, hellish nightmare scenes, like this (from Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562), full of frogs, fish and scatology. The other was that he drew and painted scenes of peasant revelry, like this (from Kermiss at Hoboken, 1559). I am impressed by the twisted creativity of the hellish scenes but have never gotten into them like some people do, and I always saw the revels more as sources for social history than art. This week at the library, looking for something to peruse while I waited for an oil change (my next stop), I grabbed a copy of a big, beautiful picture book, Pieter Bruegel by Philippe and Francoise Roberts-Jones, originally published in French in 1997. All the familiar stuff is here. But what really blew me away was the blown-up details from the backgrounds of Bruegel's historical paintings. Some of these are tiny; that bird image at the top of the post can't cover more than a square inch (2.5x2.5 cm) of canvas. But what a little wonder it is. It and the image above are from the background to The Census at Bethlehem, 1566. Just one of the numerous background figures from Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, 1565, a painting that in total measures only 9.5 x 13.5 inches (24 x 34 cm). From Hunters in the Snow, 1565. From Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap, 1565. On the original the house is less than an inch (about 2 cm) tall, the bird trap about the same size. I suppose there is something modern or post-Impressionist about my fondness for these images, rendered so small that they must necessarily be coarse, grainy, and unpolished. But love them I do.

Hieronymus Bosch (Jeroen van Aken, ca 1450-1516), The Last Judgment, triptych (1486), oil on wood, right wing, detail. Groeninge Museum, Bruges. A striking scene here is a large cauldron on wheels, boiling a monk and a nun, and pulled by a helmeted figure, riding a cow, whose horns are fixed to the wooden rudimentary waggon. The cow-riding man, holding an eucharistic chalice, inevitably evokes a corresponding scene in the left wing of Bosch’s The Haywain (see www.flickr.com/photos/snarfel/5933329538/).

Центр Брюсселя состоит из двух больших исторических районов: Нижнего и Верхнего городов. В Нижнем Нов городе жил простой люд: купцы, ремесленники, беднота, а Верхний принадлежал знати. В этом рассказе я покажу вам несколько кварталов Верхнего города. Здесь находятся Королевский дворец, собор…

Oil Painting, 'Musicians: An Old Man and an Old Woman', after Lucas van Leyden, North Netherlands

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I think I have a thing for sleeves with a hole cut in the inner elbow for the arm to go through, because as soon as I saw the coat in Lucas van Leyden’s “The Card Players” I wante…