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UNEXPECTED MOTIFS in Renaissance
The Cabinet of Curiosities
You are looking at a gallery of bizarre images and unexpected motifs from real and imaginary life that displays, by means of twisted reality, the real spirit, mind and body of the Renaissance man, who is split between medieval superstition and the birth of a new Subject.
Many of these motifs were much less unusual for the Renaissance man than they appear to us today. In that time, people perceived the world in quite a different way than we do; in fact this was a short period of freedom when mind and body were equal and curiosity overpowered fear.
This cabinet of curiosities contains everything, from imaginary compositions to unusual erotic images, Madonna breast feeding the saint, a fantasy creature with fish-head and chicken feet, unusual landscapes in the shape of a human head, double images, illusionistic monsters, people with animal physiognomy, and scenes of everyday’s life like some quack removing a ‘stone of madness’ from someone’s head or a bearded woman breastfeeding…
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Anthropomorphic Landscape
Matthaus Merian, the Elder
1605, after
Oil on panel, 31.8 x 41.3 cm
New York, Mrs. Alfred H Barr Jr. Collection
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David and Goliath
Caravaggio
about 1609
Oil on canvas, 110 x 91 cm
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
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Nicolas Trigault
Peter Paul Rubens
1617
Oil on panel, 220 x 136 cm
Douai, Musee de la Chartreuse
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Tobias Journey
Joos de Momper
about 1630
Oil on panel, 90 x 136 cm
Antwerp, Rockox House
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Bearded Woman
Jusepe de Ribera
1631
Oil on canvas
Toledo, Hospital of Tavera
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