Images
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Created on : June 27, 2015
Inspired by the 15th-century tapestries known as "La Dame à la licorne" (muse de Cluny, Paris), this painting combines elements from medieval and Renaissance art, along with an almost abstract, seemingly unfinished nature scene in the upper right-hand corner. Moreau explained that the women depicted were meant to be raising unicorns. The lady standing on the left wears a costume that resembles the dress of the lady in the unicorn tapestries. There are many fascinating details in this visually and intellectually rich painting.
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Created on : February 14, 2015
Courbet's painting is a striking reworking of the "dead bird" motif seen in the painting by Greuze, below, as well as in some of the poems we have been reading in my course on "Intertextuality."
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Created on : February 14, 2015
I chose this touching depiction of a girl with a bird in conjunction with poems we were reading in my Intertextuality course on girls or woman and their pet birds.
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Created on : August 01, 2013
Here's an interesting painting of the Roman poet Virgil, depicted as a pagan wise man dressed in Eastern garb. It is by Ludger tom Ring the Elder and dated ca. 1538. This image accompanied Durs Grünbein's 2009 essay on Hermann Broch's novel Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil). Grünbein tells me that his editors at the FAZ, where his essay appeared, selected the image.
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Created on : February 09, 2013
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Created on : July 23, 2011
Sebald is best known for his use of photographs, which punctuate his books at many junctures. He also reproduces maps and other kinds of images. Occasionally, he places art works in his books--and sometimes he refrains from doing so even when he describes an art work in the text. Here are two art works that appear in The Rings of Saturn, and one art work that is discussed there but not reproduced. He criticizes the Rembrandt for what he regards as an error of representation, but tries to salvage it by means of a reading that goes somewhat against the grain. He also takes issue...
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Created on : July 23, 2011
These images trace way stages in Rilke's 1909 to Provence, transformed into fiction in his prose book, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (1910). The sites include monuments and landscapes that take us back in to the Middle Ages (I'm reproducing only a selection). The book asks us to imagine its protagonist, Malte, against these imposing backdrops.