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Quality: HD | Release date: February 22, 2020 |
Keywords: contemplative cinema, experimental, slow cinema | Genres: Drama |
Duration: 90 min | Original title: A Sleeping Woman |
Current mood #konstantinsomov #1909 #art #painting
Detail of a beautiful painting by Georg Pencz titled “A Sleeping Woman” (Vanitas) (1544)...”George Pencz worked in Dürer's atelier. Like his master, he visited Italy and was profoundly influenced by Venetian art. This painting was certainly meant to be a collector's cabinet piece or bedroom hanging. Pencz has drawn freely from the Venetian examples of Giorgione and his followers, and the painting's main interest is undoubtedly erotic. The exactitude and distinctness with which the body is rendered, however, is typically Northern. Equally Northern are the crisply defined still life elements in the niche, meant to embroider this secular subject with moral allusions and narrative potential. Certain conventional allusions, like the sleeping figure, associated with moral failure, and the just-extinguished candle, indicative of time passing, suggest the theme of "vanitas." Pencz has dated his painting on the wall at left and inscribed his initials on the candle snuffer in the niche.”... https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/detail/F.1982.2.1.P #georgpencz #vanitas #eroticart #venetianinspired #northerneuropean #crisp #nortonsimonmuseum #photographedbyduendestudio