de dood van God

vandaag is het Goede Vrijdag
On Great and Holy Friday the Orthodox Church commemorates the death of Christ on the Cross. This is the culmination of the observance of His Passion by which our Lord suffered and died for our sins. This commemoration begins on Thursday evening with the Matins of Holy Friday and concludes with a Vespers on Friday afternoon that observes the unnailing of Christ from the Cross and the placement of His body in the tomb.
 
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Epitaphios
icoon van de graflegging
The day of Christ’s death is the day of sin. The sin which polluted God’s creation from the breaking dawn of time reached its frightful climax on the hill of Golgotha. There, sin and evil, destruction and death came into their own. Ungodly men had Him nailed to the Cross, in order to destroy Him. However, His death condemned irrevocably the fallen world by revealing its true and abnormal nature.
 
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kopieën naar capricci van Marco Ricci (1676-1730)

De Italiaanse barokschilder Marco Ricci wordt gezien als een belangrijke vernieuwer van de zogenaamde capriccio. Dat is een tafereel met antieke ruïnes en figuurtjes vaak volgens een vast schema. Vanaf 1720 zie je bij Ricci het palet veranderen. In de late barok worden de kleuren lichter en is duidelijk te zien dat het rococo in aantocht is.

ricci kopieën
kopieën naar capricci van Marco Ricci 1720′s
olieverf op papier

Ricci bezocht driehonderd jaar geleden op doorreis naar Engeland ook ons land waar hij de zeventiende eeuwse Hollandse landschapsschilders bestudeerde. Aan het begin van de achttiende eeuw was de Italianiserende landschapsschilder Nicolas Berchem veel bekender dan Rembrandt. Zijn abstraherende stijl zie ik ook terug in de gouaches van Ricci.

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into the shadows

100 all-time favorite film noirs and neo-noirs
van Paul Duncan en Jürgen Müller verschijnt in mei 2014 bij Taschen
film-noir-taschenEnter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. The first film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir, this essential collection begins with the early genre influencers of German and French silent film, journeys through such seminal works such as Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Vertigo, and arrives at the present day via Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Heat, and the recent cult favorite Drive.
 
Entries include posters, tons of rare stills, cast/crew details, quotes from the films and from critics, and analyses of the films. Film director, film noir scholar, and Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader provides the introduction to this feast of noir worship. Populated by the genre’s most revered directors, like Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles, Polanski, Mann, and Scorsese, the book also pays homage to its iconic faces, including Mitchum, Bogart, Hayworth, Bergman, Grant, Bacall, Crawford, Nicholson, Pacino, and so many more.
 
Bron: taschen.com