Acompetition to identify the painters, perhaps? I find that Renaissance Annunciations, even by the greatest artists, can tend to melt into one another.
I did try to group and pair and balance. They aren't all Annunciations, either, or even all Renaissance (although most of them are Renaissance): there's Blake and Dore in there, and the story of Tobit receives its due. along with the Nativity. (And strictly speaking Rembrandt and El Greco are not Renaissance.) And to tell the truth, I've lost the name of one of the painters along the way (the lowest of the Tobits).
This was all cut and paste, of course, using GIMP. If you like this one, click through to the full gallery, and you'll find others, but this is the only explicitly religious one: there's Chinese art, Venice, Canaletto, sailboats and other ships, and one composed of aerial shots of Jerusalem.
Gosh. Complicated w'out a numbered chart. Where to start?
Angel with viol, top outside left & right is one of the more cheerful moments from the Isenheim altarpiece (Grünewald/Neithardt - choose your name of preference)
Top center, El Greco, I think. Not familiar with the greeny angels in between. Are they Rembrandt?
Next row, centre section. Perugino left, definitely. Also right? Might the middle one be Caravaggio?
Next row. Doré left, Blake centre, and then we're in among all those Renaissance Annunciations.
The Gabriel below the Doré is Fra Angelico, the rest confuse me a bit, apart from the one facing the Fra Angelico, which is also from the Isenheim altarpiece.
Is the lower centre right also El Greco?
Lower outer angels are easy - Van Eyck "Adoration" altarpiece.
Top center and bottom second from right are Definitely El Greco. Doré and Fra Angelico are are correct. I agree about Perugino. Blake is right. About the rest, I don't know, but I'll take your word on them.
The Isenheim & Van Eyck altarpieces I'm definitely right on. You posted the Van Eyck angels a few months back. I'll find a link to the Isenheim altar (there's one very good one) before I post this. Need to check into the greenish angels in the top row.
It's one of those very grand late medieval numbers with multiple folding wings and scenes. Three completely different sequences. The three sequences can be accessed separately from the lower left of this page.
The Crucifixion, a particularly harrowing image, is the best known section of the work.
I recognized the angels from an earlier post, but I forgot whose they were. The only ones that could have been Rembrandt are the two you mention, but they are not typical of his work, IMHO.
Most of the IDs are correct. Top corners--Grunewald Bottom corners--van Eyck Left column, top to bottom: Rembrandt, Perugino (St Michael), Dore (angel who admits Dante to the terraces of Purgatory), Fra Angelico, Lippi (both of them Annunciation). Middle column, top to bottom: El Greco (a Nativity); Carvaggio (Works of Corporal Charity), Blake (which I think is actually a depiciton of newly created Adam). Right column: Rembrandt, Perugino (Raphael), artist I can't recall (found via Ionarts blog) (another Raphael); Grunewald, El Greco (both the latter two being Annunciations). (Lapinbizarre correctly ID'd the Rembrandts. In fact, he was correct in just about everything. ) I got all these images except the one noted exception from the website to which Lapinbizzare gave the link for the Isenheim altarpiece. It contains loads of stuff from medieval up to the 18th century, and is well worth wandering around in.
BTW, Mimi, I'm your grandson, not your granddaughter :)
Acompetition to identify the painters, perhaps? I find that Renaissance Annunciations, even by the greatest artists, can tend to melt into one another.
ReplyDeleteThank you, GM.
ReplyDeleteI did try to group and pair and balance. They aren't all Annunciations, either, or even all Renaissance (although most of them are Renaissance): there's Blake and Dore in there, and the story of Tobit receives its due. along with the Nativity. (And strictly speaking Rembrandt and El Greco are not Renaissance.) And to tell the truth, I've lost the name of one of the painters along the way (the lowest of the Tobits).
This was all cut and paste, of course, using GIMP. If you like this one, click through to the full gallery, and you'll find others, but this is the only explicitly religious one: there's Chinese art, Venice, Canaletto, sailboats and other ships, and one composed of aerial shots of Jerusalem.
Lapin, do you want to start the competition? The El Greco paintings are obvious to me. I'm wondering if Fra Angelico is in there.
ReplyDeleteGosh. Complicated w'out a numbered chart. Where to start?
ReplyDeleteAngel with viol, top outside left & right is one of the more cheerful moments from the Isenheim altarpiece (Grünewald/Neithardt - choose your name of preference)
Top center, El Greco, I think. Not familiar with the greeny angels in between. Are they Rembrandt?
Next row, centre section. Perugino left, definitely. Also right? Might the middle one be Caravaggio?
Next row. Doré left, Blake centre, and then we're in among all those Renaissance Annunciations.
The Gabriel below the Doré is Fra Angelico, the rest confuse me a bit, apart from the one facing the Fra Angelico, which is also from the Isenheim altarpiece.
Is the lower centre right also El Greco?
Lower outer angels are easy - Van Eyck "Adoration" altarpiece.
OK, I'm through showing off!
Top center and bottom second from right are Definitely El Greco. Doré and Fra Angelico are are correct. I agree about Perugino. Blake is right. About the rest, I don't know, but I'll take your word on them.
ReplyDeleteThe Isenheim & Van Eyck altarpieces I'm definitely right on. You posted the Van Eyck angels a few months back. I'll find a link to the Isenheim altar (there's one very good one) before I post this. Need to check into the greenish angels in the top row.
ReplyDeleteIsenheim altar:
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/grunewal/2isenhei/index.html
It's one of those very grand late medieval numbers with multiple folding wings and scenes. Three completely different sequences. The three sequences can be accessed separately from the lower left of this page.
The Crucifixion, a particularly harrowing image, is the best known section of the work.
The angels ARE both Rembrandt - top left "Sacrifice of Isaac"; top right "Tobias and the A".
ReplyDeleteCan anyone help on the brownish image in the centre, between the El Greco and the Blake?
I recognized the angels from an earlier post, but I forgot whose they were. The only ones that could have been Rembrandt are the two you mention, but they are not typical of his work, IMHO.
ReplyDeleteLapin, the one you can't identify is, I believe, a modern risen Christ, but I don't know the artist. Where's Kishnevi when you need her?
ReplyDeleteMost of the IDs are correct.
ReplyDeleteTop corners--Grunewald
Bottom corners--van Eyck
Left column, top to bottom:
Rembrandt, Perugino (St Michael), Dore (angel who admits Dante to the terraces of Purgatory), Fra Angelico, Lippi (both of them Annunciation).
Middle column, top to bottom:
El Greco (a Nativity); Carvaggio (Works of Corporal Charity), Blake (which I think is actually a depiciton of newly created Adam).
Right column: Rembrandt, Perugino (Raphael), artist I can't recall (found via Ionarts blog) (another Raphael); Grunewald, El Greco (both the latter two being Annunciations).
(Lapinbizarre correctly ID'd the Rembrandts. In fact, he was correct in just about everything. )
I got all these images except the one noted exception from the website to which Lapinbizzare gave the link for the Isenheim altarpiece. It contains loads of stuff from medieval up to the 18th century, and is well worth wandering around in.
BTW, Mimi, I'm your grandson, not your granddaughter :)
Kishnevi, my humble apologies. I could have read your "About Me" first, couldn't I? I shall now remember that you're my grandson. I promise.
ReplyDeleteI've visited the Web Gallery many times. It's an excellent site.