The Descent from the Cross c. 1435. Oil on oak panel, 220cm × 262 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden.
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20 April, 2019
Happy Easter - 2019
The Descent from the Cross c. 1435. Oil on oak panel, 220cm × 262 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden.
25 December, 2016
12 December, 2016
In the Bleak Midwinter
These Cello Advent dailies you may follow on your own at You Tube, from Kjell Magne Robak, who is a Norwegian Cellist. I post this one because it's traditional here at The Colorist to post In the Bleak Midwinter at Christmastime.
Enjoy.
11 December, 2016
30 May, 2016
01 January, 2016
23 December, 2015
03 April, 2015
Crown of Thorns
Christ with Crown of Thorns (1450~)
55×39 cm / Tempera on Wood.
Fra Angelico (@1395-1455)
Location: the dome in Leghorn, It.
01 January, 2015
27 November, 2014
06 June, 2014
19 April, 2014
01 January, 2014
25 December, 2013
Christmas Nativity
The Adoration of the Kings, 1564
43.7" x 32.68"
Oil on Board
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Click on the image to open full size.
24 December, 2013
23 December, 2013
20 December, 2013
White Christmas!
I get nostalgic, here. It's snowing today.
We love Christmas movies at my house, and the wartime and post war movie White Christmas is no exception. As a matter of fact, it's one of my favorites. Those who know me best, know I have a soft spot in my heart for WW II G.I.s and everyone from that generation. My father's army division, the TenthMountain Division, returned home and founded the American ski industry almost from scratch. Rope tow and T-Bar hills became ski lift-served resorts. Those were the salad days for the ski industry, but it came on the heels of K ration days at the battlefront.
You see the parallel to my father's experiences in the movie White Christmas. It is a vehicle, really, for Bing Crosby's wartime hit song by the same name. I read this year about how Bing was visiting a UK airbase during the war, but was too emotional to go on stage after witnessing the bombing deaths of children. You think he was an elite Hollywood star, but he saw some things. The movie is sappy to some, but there was a reason for spreading some peace and harmony for my parent's cohort.
Plus, my dad was overseas at Christmas in 1944. Reason enough to remember the season and to cherish the good times we live in now. If you dig the Olive Drab version, like me, these first 2 short videos have that. I added the glorious version from the end of the movie, because that's the way the old timers wanted to experience it. The clip dialogue is dubbed auf Deutsch, and the song remains as recorded - it is wonderful to watch at high resolution.
We love Christmas movies at my house, and the wartime and post war movie White Christmas is no exception. As a matter of fact, it's one of my favorites. Those who know me best, know I have a soft spot in my heart for WW II G.I.s and everyone from that generation. My father's army division, the TenthMountain Division, returned home and founded the American ski industry almost from scratch. Rope tow and T-Bar hills became ski lift-served resorts. Those were the salad days for the ski industry, but it came on the heels of K ration days at the battlefront.
You see the parallel to my father's experiences in the movie White Christmas. It is a vehicle, really, for Bing Crosby's wartime hit song by the same name. I read this year about how Bing was visiting a UK airbase during the war, but was too emotional to go on stage after witnessing the bombing deaths of children. You think he was an elite Hollywood star, but he saw some things. The movie is sappy to some, but there was a reason for spreading some peace and harmony for my parent's cohort.
Plus, my dad was overseas at Christmas in 1944. Reason enough to remember the season and to cherish the good times we live in now. If you dig the Olive Drab version, like me, these first 2 short videos have that. I added the glorious version from the end of the movie, because that's the way the old timers wanted to experience it. The clip dialogue is dubbed auf Deutsch, and the song remains as recorded - it is wonderful to watch at high resolution.
19 December, 2013
18 December, 2013
17 December, 2013
Little Town
The Census at Bethlehem, 1566
Peter Bruegel The Elder, 152?-1569
Color on Panel
This post was first published in 2011.
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