Among the hundreds of paintings gathered in the National Museum in Lisbon, a few really stood out. For me anyway.
The first one I showed you here by an anonymous painter.
This is the second one. And there was no other like this in the whole building. The level of weirdness this guy managed to achieve in every inch of the painting is unbelievable and very impressive. He created something compared to the results AI currently does. But, oh just so much better!
Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony
It is quite a large painting, and the flood of intensive colours and large golden frames - well... it does impress. A lot.
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It is away from the wall, so you can see the back of it too, and that was done on purpose. After you stop staring at all the creepy creatures, you can go and admit the outside of the shutters.
Both side panels can be used to "close" the painting, and then only the outer side is visible.
As with many others, the outside part lacks colours. The majority of triptychs in the museum were painted that way. The whole image was done mostly in shades of grey or beige (I will show it in another post with some others). Only a few had a full colour paintings on both sides.
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Time for some closeups. I will not describe every detail and creature; there are so many of them that one could write a book, and there are plenty of articles online with interpretations and the meaning of each. It is quite a famous painting.
I will leave a Wikipedia link here.
If you look at the first image close enough, you will notice a super tiny figure of Christ on a cross. It took me a while to notice him, and I did not even shoot him. There is so much going on around him - so many temptations and distractions, that even in the painting, nobody seems to pay attention to him.
Can you see the little devil sneaking? 👆
Ice skating demon messenger? :) Sure, why not?
Its beak holds a cartouche with the word "fat". This could be a reference to the simony scandal.
I could shoot and shoot. Every bit of it is filled with details and symbols.
Oh yes. This painting did put a smile on my face :)
It still does when I look at the photos now.
Here is a fun fact:
Like many of Bosch's paintings, The Temptation of St. Anthony was the subject of a number of copies. A workshop copy is in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and a later copy is in Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Reduced copy of two wings is in Prado Museum in Madrid. Another version of the central panel is found in MASP in São Paulo, Brazil, first rehearsal Version. Circle of Jheronimus Bosch, Temptation of Saint Anthony central panel copy, (Barnes Foundation), a work by a follower after Bosch can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
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Here are the two that can be now admired in Berlin and Brussels 👇
Temptation of Saint Anthony, WORKSHOP OF BOSCH, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Temptation of Saint Anthony, Later Copy, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
You can almost play a game to spot as many differences as possible between the original and the copies :)
And if you liked this one as much as I did, go check "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Painted roughly in the same time and with same level of weirdness :D
Gotta love Dutch artists!
Bonus song for today:
A Perfect Circle - Imagine
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All photos and text are my own, unless stated otherwise.
Wow thx for all the zoom in pictures, I thought you would talk about other paintings bellow until you kept talking about the same, at first though there were all ppl on the painting until I start to look closer but then with the zoom in got worst, well worst I mean more creepy, this is fng awesome, I wonder what type of products you need to consume to have such imagination 😂✌️
Oh I have no idea, but it must have been very, very good!! :D :D
How are you dear friend @ewkaw
What a beautiful and interesting work. A few years ago on a discovery type channel via an art critic talking about every detail of this painting, there are so many that he spent the two hours of programming talking about it.
If you didn't mention Christ on the cross I wouldn't have noticed it, to be honest I overlooked it, the thing about the devil did catch my attention, I saw it before you mentioned it.
I loved this work, there is so much to see.
I take this opportunity to wish you a splendid night and a happy rest
It must have been interesting to listen to what other say about it. I will have to look up more info about it.
Have an awesome day too :)
Wow!
I could look and look! I love the little devil peaking out. I never found Christ on the cross.
What a painting, even the knock-offs are fabulous.
Cool post!
He is hiding right here :D
Yea.. I was doing that for a while. And every time you want to walk away you notice something else you didn't see before.
It is amazing!
Thank you :)
Ah!
What an interesting art! @ewkaw, ive seen the devil sneeking at the lower left corner lol. One of the paintings looks so painful to see as people there suffering , but i saw one that I found attractive which , a woman carrying a baby, a man trying hard to earn living, the value of helping each other and the fun involved in that one painting. ❤️ Thanking for showing off the other side of Lisbon 🙌
There is so much going on here that we could find and interpret almost anything we want.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
This one hits home for me. Absolutely adore H.Bosh. Very much appreciate you did some close ups, really appreciate it!. Didn't had many opportunities those his amazing artworks in person.
My very favourite right hand side panel of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', he even incorporated self-portrait there:)
Maynard's J. Keenan voice is very much in line with Hieronymus Bosh work :)
And now I will spend the evening staring at 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. Pity just on the laptop screen.
Amazing!
Yea, I think so too :D
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Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) un lenguaje plástico la obra y su importancia en la grandiosa creatividad y su surrealismo es increíble ....
He always included a humorous element in his work. 😉
Whenever I see something (online mostly) from him I am like
"ohh look at this!", "and what's that?"... :D
Crazy mind!