Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Well, well, I see you have returned for your Friday Afternoon Challenge! Today: “Interiors.” [View all]velvet
(1,011 posts)43. #5 ... Bitticelli?
Last edited Sat Jan 5, 2013, 05:56 AM - Edit history (3)
Kidding. I mean Botticelli.
And on reflection, could this be the Death of the Virgin? Possibly part of a series of frescoes culminating in the Virgin's Assumption into Heaven? I dunno who that baby is though. Perhaps the people in the foreground, with the exception of the figure on the right, who seems lifted straight from his "Venus", are a Florentine noblewoman and her attendants rather than biblical characters? "Venus Girl" and the woman on the bed are in direct communication, and I'm guessing she might be an angel coming to escort the Virgin into heaven.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
46 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Well, well, I see you have returned for your Friday Afternoon Challenge! Today: “Interiors.” [View all]
CTyankee
Jan 2013
OP
No! I thought maybe Vermeer and went looking for the title of the piece. Instead I found this.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#10
It's funny, but the title I had from the painting I downloaded was in French and I didn't know
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#17
This genre is nice is probably why. There is a quiet feeling. An intimate moment that we can
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#35
Hmm, funny how we never see an artist's rendering of his (or someone else's) "other" body
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#39
Yes, as I said this struck me as pretty strange and demented. Balthus must've been a wierd guy...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#19
The compositional use of interior light is what I found striking about this work.
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#22
did you happen to notice that the flooring in #1 is the same pattern as the ceiling in #5?
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#36
I'd have never spotted those tiles.... So unusual on the ceiling...from our POV...
nenagh
Jan 2013
#42
well, I went on an art intensive in Florence, where I saw both of these works and I had
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#44