The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.Scenes from my childhood came flooding back, lying on the floor in the sun, reading this book, the Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance & Baroque Art (which mum gave me the not so very long ago-early inheritance).
That image stuck in my mind without my even realising it. Until tonight.Seeing that image HUGE up there on the screen reminded me how fascinated I was buy the picture, the hoards of crawling skeletons, those red sticks, that death's pale horse. The stuff of nightmares, and yet, I could not stop looking.
Apparently it's a response to the events that led up to the 80 Years War in the 17th Century. So there you go.
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Oooooo, very complex painting, reminds me a little of Hieronymus Bosch. His works are the stuff of nightmares tho!
Mr Bosch is one of my favorites, you can explore his paintings for hours, finding "things".
You hippie.
Cookie, I think, when we meet, you will realise I'm pretty much the opposite ;)
My mother won a set of Encyclopedia Britannica - the Children's Edition - and gave them to me. I proceeded to read them, not quite cover to cover! She and my Dad would have to insist that I get out of bed on a Saturday morning and put the encyclopedia down!
;o)
- Lee
Lee, I used to do the same, and lie for hours going over the HUGE atlas too. Mr Brown bought me one of my very own a few years ago, I love it.
I put together a 10,000 peice puzzle of the Garden of Earthly Delights. Talk about HUGE. Only lost one peice, too...
wow, that's a lot of pieces
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