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Yearning for lockdown?
I'll be going to the pub like this. https://t.co/tFuhPwK6zv
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Veronica is both an artist-witness, and a Christian witness.
#ReligionAndArt
Bassano’s Way to Calvary shows Veronica.
She offers her veil, & Christ looks at it as if at a mirror. Christ's face is shown, & yet also hidden. Veronica is unveiled, revealed, & Christ's imprinted face remains a future, veiled, event.
#ReligionAndArt
#VanGogh, Kingfisher by the Waterside (painted between July-August of 1887, in Paris, @VanGoghMuseum)
@hopefulseb
May just sell all of my nice things, seeing as we aren't allowed to have any joy anymore.
Here is Madame du Barry, fabulous floozy, by Vigee Le Brun (1781, @philamuseum).
She started her day at 9am, with a cup of hot chocolate.
@lookingthinking It's Burne Jones' Vesper The Evening Star (1872, Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection)
@onefrontier Definitely! I went to an exhibition at Prague's Mucha Museum a few years ago and found likewise: his colours are more muted and subtle than I'd be lead to expect from reproductions. I found them more beautiful.