#matthias grunewald

[burnitalldownism]

I’m not making any massive revelatory point here, it’s been made a million times before. But I visited the National Gallery today with my daughter and mum. Reminded me of a few pieces I’d studied at school.

The argument against art being political is always so funny to me, because Renaissance artists, commissioned by the church, were super political centuries ago.

The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio. Notice the armour? That’s not Roman armour, that’s armour contemporary to Caravaggio’s time. A modern equivalent would be Jesus wearing keffiyeh, being arrested by soldiers in IDF uniforms.

The Isenheim triptych by Grunewald. Jesus is represented, showing external physical symptoms of a number of diseases…including syphillis. Jesus with an STD. Syphillis was a huge problem in Europe at the time and so Grunewald was translating the suffering of Christ on the cross to the suffering of people at the time.

Another W for Caravaggio, this time it’s Death of the Virgin. Mary was modelled on the body of a prostitute who was recovered from the River Tiber.

Ending off with a non-religious one is the Raft of the Medusa by Géricault. Helped to bring down a government by inflaming public resentment towards classism and nepotism.

Art has always been political and it has always spoken truth to power. Art punches up and that’s why the people who want it to remain neutral are always those who punch down.

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Matthias Grünewald - The Temptation of St. Anthony

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objects in art: swords/daggers

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Can we just appreciate how fucking fab Saint Maurice/Morris/Moritz 's hair is in this painting by Matthias Grünewald (c. 1520)?

[fungusgnat444]

Vampire König headcanons

Just a few hcs for y’all xo. The first part of the series should be done relatively soon so I thought I’d post this to keep you guys hungry lolWarnings: hes a vampire so minor mentions of blood. Nothing super intense tho. Reader is a medic/doctor so medical stuff I guess, könig being delusional and mildly creepy. I think that's it enjoy. Also almost forgot fem reader

-extremely standoffish at first. To the point where you think he probably hates you. In reality he’s obsessed; he just has no idea how to talk to women (it’s been several hundred years since he's had to “court” so he tries his best to keep you at arms length. This doesn’t work very well of course)

-before he turned his family were all poor farmers so he could never have sweet treats as a kid since suger was pretty much only for the rich at the time. So now he has a massive sweet tooth and is regularly gorging himself on sweets.

-in the 1400’s he took the alias Matthias Grunewald, moved to germany and became a painter (Matthias grunewald was a real artist. My history nerd brain couldn’t help throwing that in there. One of my favourite artists tbh)

-since you’re new to Austria he offers to teach you German just to have an excuse to talk to you but he's delusional enough to convince himself it’s to help you. Of course the first thing he teaches you is how to say König correctly. It’s just so annoying to hear you mispronounce it of course… no other reason. 

-refuses to take his mask off when you have to examine him so you have to roll it up just above his top lip. Extremely insecure about his appearance but his face in particular because of all the scars. Plus he has a cleft lip scar that he used to get bullied for.

-he has basically no friends apart from Horangi so he spends most of his time alone painting and watching old German films. His favourite is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (its really good y’all should totally watch it btw)

-secretly collects little items you leave around the place even though he feels like a massive creep because of it. It started with a bobby pin he saw lying on your desk that he snatched while you weren’t paying attention. Now he has a whole drawer in his bedside table full of little trinkets; his favourite is a lip gloss that you had dropped one day (secretly wears it under his mask so he can feel like he’s tasting you throughout the day because he so desperately wants to kiss your pretty lips :( )

-once he opens up just a little more and you start to become friends, he slowly starts returning the items he stole because he feels too guilty. Hides them in semi-obvious places to make you think you had just misplaced them (can’t bring himself to part with  the lipgloss though)

-avoids touching you at all costs. Feels like he's having a heart attack whenever you have to examine his teeth; feeling your soft little gloved fingers brush against his lips, trying your best to be so gentle with him. Likes that you’re always so nice to him; complimenting his gum health and being so soft and praising him when you have to take venom samples from his fangs, patting his shoulder when it's down to soothe him when you’re done. In reality you’re just trying your best to make you’re patient comfortable but he savours every moment. Gets so flustered every time you compliment him, even if its something generic and medically (he starts to floss several times a day after you casually mention that he has good gums)

-hates that he can always smell you even when you wear scent blockers, its so distracting. He can always smell you approaching before he sees you, making him panic and overthink at the thought of having to interact with you.

-pretty much exclusively drinks your blood type once he finds out what it is and gets all grumpy whenever the base’s blood dispensary runs out of it. Tries his best to fast until they’re restocked. He avoids you when he’s fasting because you smell so delicious. The fact that you’re completely oblivious and still hang around him only frustrates him more.

Hehe hope you degenerates like this. First part of the series should be out soon xo

[mosertone]

"The dead lovers" by Matthias Grunewald

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Nightmare Fuel Art Master-post, Vol. I

Regularly updated!

15th Century

Gerard David Hans Holbein Hans Memling Hieronymous Bosch Lucas Cranach the Elder Matthias Grunewald Titian

16th Century

Adriaen van de Venne Artemisia Gentileschi Filippo Napoletano Hans Baldung Grien Herri Met de Bles Jacopo Ligozzi Jan Mandijn Jan Massys Pieter Bruegel the Elder

17th Century

Caravaggio Francesco Furini Frans Francken II Juan de Valdes Leal Jusepe de Ribera Leonaert Bramer Peter Paul Rubens Salvator Rosa 18th Century

Edvard Munch Francisco de Goya Henry Fuseli J.M.W. Turner Karl Alexander Wilke Katsushika Hokusai Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini William Blake

19th Century

Amedee-Ernest Lynen Antoine Wiertz Armand Rassenfosse Arnold Bocklin Carlos Schwabe Edmond Louis Dupain Felicien Rops Francesco Scaramuzza Franz von Stuck Georges Rochegrosse George Frederic Watts Gustave Dore Gustave Moreau Henri Regnault Ilya Repin Jakub Schikaneder James Tissot Jean Francois Millet Jean Leon Gerome Jean Paul Laurens Jean Veber Jeno Gyarfas Jose Casado del Alisal Laszlo Mednyanszky Louis Gallait Maximilian Pirner Odilon Redon Paul Burck Theodore Gericault Theodor Kittelsen Theophile Schuler Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Wilhelm Kotarbinski William Holbrook Beard Witold Wojtkiewicz

“Turn of the Century” Alberto Martini Alfred Kubin Antonio Rizzi Egon Schiele Frantisek Kupka Fritz Gareis Georges Desvallieres Harry Clarke Heinrich Kley Henryk Weyssenhoff James Ensor Jaroslav Panuska Jean Delville Josef Mandl Julien Adolphe-Duvocelle Kathe Kollwitz Manuel Orazi Marian Wawrzeniecki Oscar Parviainen Piotr Stachiewicz Richard Tennant Cooper Sascha Schneider Sergius Hruby Wladyslaw Podkowinski Vasily Vereshchagin

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Matthias Grunewald (c1480 1528) - A Glass Jug detail from the Concert of Angels from the Isenheim Altar

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Matthias Grunewald, “The Crucifixion”, 1512-1516

[mybeingthere]

Matthias Grunewald - Head of a boy crying, (c.1520) chalk.

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patti smith, matthias grunewald, sylvia plath, john singer, toni morrison, frida kahlo, gina pane,, oscar wilde, el greco, george struikelblok, tracey emin, mark rothko, julia margaret cameron, jung boc su, ron athey, andrea mantegna, seamus heaney, nico, gustav mahler, paula rego, diane arbus, arvo part, bob flanagan, leonard cohen, ahn chang hong, francisco goya, nina simone, ulay, susan sontag, marina abramovic, edith piaf, edvard munch, louise bourgeois, beth gibbons, ian curtis, raimund hoghe, antony hegarty, maria callas, samuel barber, gunter bruce, francis bacon, arthur rimbaud, kae tempest, mike parr, david nebreda, pier paolo pasolini, sam fender, nick cave, ana mendieta, christian boltanski, leon golub, fabio mauri, david olusoga, kiki smith, maya angelou, hieronymus bosch, bobby baker, janis joplin, nan goldin, andrei tarkovsky, bob dylan, abel ascona, nancy spero, billie holiday, robert capa, sarah lucas, friedrich nietzsche, sonia boyce, steve mcqueen, fabrizio de andre', alda merini, letizia battaglia, nick drake, charles bukowski, iannis xenakis, rogier vander weyden, janine antonii, arvo parks, tracy chapman, jean genet, valie export, linda mary montano, william blake, john cooper clarke, hannah wilke, lou reed, tracey moffat, doris salcedo, rebecca horn, giacomo leopardi, santiago sierra, teresa margolles, regina jose' galindo, suzanne lacy

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I joke but don't joke that I want to do a film/gender studies Phd and do a thesis titled the "The Passion of John McClain: suffering as embodied masculinity in McTiernan's Die Hard." Then again, John isn't so much sexy as incredibly compelling in a kind of Matthias Grunewald way, at least to me. But then again my taste runs toward twinks.

blood on women is sexy if it’s someone else’s. blood on men is sexy if it’s theirs. hope this helps.

[allaboutaparthistory]

77. Isenheim altarpiece

By Matthias Grunewald

Created c. 1512-1516 CE

Oil on wood

[dramoor]

"Because I live, you will live also." ~John 14:19

“And, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” ~Matthew 28:20  

(Art: The Resurrection of Christ, from the Isenheim Altarpiece circa 1512-16  by Matthias Grunewald)