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A friend sent me a shot of this recently, noting that St. Joseph, on a side panel, is working on a mousetrap (the cross being like a trap for the evil one).
The Flemish Masters were incredible artists. It’s a shame they were more or less buried post renaissance by the dramatic Italian styles that dominate the baroque. I mean, I really like that style, don’t get me wrong. It’s just too bad that it more or less overwhelmed the renaissance era efforts of native northern European culture.
I love the bejeweled ornamented alb, amice, and deacon’s stole (as proclaimer of the Word) on St. Gabriel. But what does anyone suppose is the meaning of only one candle above the fireplace?
A note for those who love the Cloisters: stones from the courtyard of the monastery that was rebuilt to make the Cloisters are at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the reassembled monastic courtyard is on permanent display.
The left panel shows the painting’s donor and his wife. The man’s face is very . . . specific, i.e., it’s a face painted from life, not just the painter’s imagination. It’s a living person (at the time).
I hope the two made it to heaven . . . .
This ex-voto (1425 approx) from a young married couple presents what is called “homunculus” : Christ coming from heaven with a body at the Annunciation.
Later on, in 1563 Trent council decree stated : “ ita ut nullae falsi dogmatis imagines et rudibus periculosi erroris occasionem praebentes statutentur”. Thereafter “homunculus” representations were no more accepted in the Church as being able to induce Valentinien or Anabaptist heresies in contradiction with “Et incarnatus est … ex Maria Virgine”. Anyway this is a great picture.
Is it me, or are the little human figures on the sides of the fireplace also the donors?
https://www.wga.hu/art/l/lotto/5/06annun1.jpg
Lorenzo Lotto’s Annunciation, because….cat.
Also, her face! Imagine what went through her mind as she knew what was asked of her.
Glory to God!
[Cat.]
I wondered about the candle, Fr. Theodoxos, and also the crosier detail to the hearth screen.
Augustine described the Cross as the trap for the Devil.
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St. Jerome likewise in dramatic terms:
“Ero mors tua, o mors: ero morsus tuus, inferne” (Osee 13:17). Illius morte, tu mortua es: illius morte, nos vivimus. Devorasti, et devorata es. Dumque assumpti corporis sollicitaris illecebra, et avidis faucibus praedam putas, interiora tua adunco dente confossa sunt. (Ad Heliodorum)
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(“Oh death, I shall be your death: I shall be your bite”. By his death you will die: by his death we live. You devoured and you were devoured. As you desire the enticement of that body, as you expect your booty with an avid jaw, your own guts are torn with hooked teeth.)