Death and Life
Death and Life, 1916, Gustav Klimt
For a closer look at this painting, check out Khan Academy's Smart History segment
Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Death and Life, 1916, Gustav Klimt
For a closer look at this painting, check out Khan Academy's Smart History segment
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The Death of Seneca - 2
The Death of Seneca, 1773, Jacques-Louis David
This painting seems to be more intent on offering enticing elements to the eye rather than capturing the agony of that ordered attempt at suicide. I prefer the Luca Giordano version to this one.
Alain De Botton in his book The Consolations of Philosophy writes:
This painting seems to be more intent on offering enticing elements to the eye rather than capturing the agony of that ordered attempt at suicide. I prefer the Luca Giordano version to this one.
Alain De Botton in his book The Consolations of Philosophy writes:
David's rococo version of the scene was not the first, nor the finest. Seneca appeared more like a reclining pasha than a dying philosopher. Paulina, thrusting her bared right breast forward, was dressed for grand opera rather than Imperial Rome. Yet David's rendering of the moment fitted, however clumsily, into a lengthy history of admiration for the manner in which the Roman endured his appalling fate.
Monday, September 23, 2013
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