Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (Saint Jerome)
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St. Jerome as hermit, like Zarathustra? One a doctor of the church, the other a doctor of philosophy?
ReplyDeleteSaint Jerome as the subject of many paintings in art history for example by Bellini, Caravaggio, Carpacio, Reni, with the lion he helped out. Don't see this as belonging to the Zarathustra series, I'm stumbling around pre-raphaelite realism to see whether there is anything in it for me :)
ReplyDeleteI am a fan of the pre-Raphaelite's. But is it realism or romanticism?
ReplyDeleteDifference between the two is I think Romanticism as a platform for the gifted but misunderstood artist-as-outsider, and emphasis on contemporary and new (for art) emotional states: horror, terror. The pre-raphaelites it seems to me was a movement, literally a brotherhood who rejected the styles of but retained a commitment to allegory, history painting, intellect, and the colour composition and style of the Quattrocento painters and Realism, because of their great attention to detail particularly representations of hair.
ReplyDeleteBut I think pre-raphs imagery is taken from the romantic poets and with their emphasis on nature and the fact that many of them wrote poetry I naturally thought that they would fall within the realm of romanticism?
ReplyDeleteThey paid attention to realistic detail which was quite offensive to most at the time. The difference is I think the third person eye contrasted to the first person Romantic "I" .
ReplyDeleteOK, but didn't they always paint beautiful women (realism of beauty) - did they paint realistic ordinary people. I'm asking because I don't know. Does that question make sense?
ReplyDeleteA big criticism of Christ in the House of His Parents was the women are ugly. People weren't used to the level of detail, it shocked and Charles Dickens wrote this crit on the day.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it was fantastic to see the documentary on the Pre-Raphaelites yesterday, think ABC 1 - and they did place emphasis on the intricate work, attention to detail - did you watch it? You might find it interesting that our own Australian (Melbourne) artist and friend - Juan Ford is also a realist painter and uses fine technique of observation in his work. http://www.juanford.com
ReplyDeleteJuan is an interesting artist. Watching the ABC series on Sundays, hoping it gets to Burne-Jones, one of my favourites. Not really interested in landscapes myself but I'm applying virtual reality trickery to realism lately and I wonder how far that will get me. St Jerome is a logical subject because it unlocks possibilities of allegory, I'm going to try a few other classical subjects as well. Not really interested in exhibiting these pieces, tho I don't mind sharing a little on the www, it is a working through, exploratory stuff to see if anything becomes from it.
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