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one of the many success stories from a bastion of biodiversity. st. helena starts november 18th on d. w. ah. oh, yes. ah . ringback ah, these artworks skilfully play with our emotions. a lurid combination of horror and amazement, gothic art is mesmerising though its origin state back a good 600 years. the art of late middle ages is surprisingly innovative. ah!

what makes these pictures so memorable role? ah ah, gothic imagery offers up dark secrets, but once deciphered, they tell us the most astonishing stories. ah, the last judgment by steph unlocked, now. it's a truly apocalyptic vision. legions of the damned, pushed through a ravine. devils drag one half to hell. and the other half is bound for

paradise. the bless it crowded together, they flood towards a gate accompanied by music. lucknow portrays the blessing from the rear so that the viewer can identify with them. this version of paradise was created in 1435 and hangs in a gothic church. in stark contrast, a separate painting shows the damned and their tormentors, devils, monsters, and beasts. they forcibly drag sinners towards hell exposed naked helpless. interestingly, ladies of the ruling class are also depicted among the sinners. they are recognizable by their fine head wear and a cardinal, and a pope, a king, even the message, church nobility,

titles are of little use. hell makes no exceptions. it's hard to imagine how terrifying it may have been nearly 600 years ago. colors assigned us the halter. we may now be hardened by mod medias to wish more than can enjoy lockson's monsters. all do more to observe us then. when really frightened pasta, voters forced an article on hub course images of hell like this, exhort has to lead a good life and avoid sin. that's the warning does is demand stuff and lot know brought the christian doctrine of sin to stark reality. every shya greed for money, the sin of the fat one, luxurious she surrendered to lust. o gall,

this miss the scene of this man with cup in hand. and no sooner have the dice been cast than the gambling addict is dragged away by beasts. monsters torment the avaricious sinner with his own coins. lopez. but did such images of hell, truly touch the lives of people back then? not know, stoops fruits that i don't for blocking a died of the plague in 1451. so sandy anchor. and at that time, there were about $200.00 deaths per day in calon mits, by whom we can imagine these conditions easily, dell, the cemetery, can't take any more dead smells noon, and gifts off. an unbearable stench in the late summer heat spits on my hits of either to the feet off. i don't like this in cust. thank the

plague. it wasn't called the black death for nothing. ah, what role does aught play in times of pandemic? in times when people live in great fear, love to go to tardy sit on a late coffee cart is deeply humans at an architect to express his feelings that still touches to day 5 or 600 years later law up her leg herbs. this human dimension, it makes it particularly valuable and moving. why particular more about aunty emerald bust is a dodge vehicle to should i personally find out what distinguishes this late gothic german art is it's a bulky, not very good character. there is something appealing about these pictures, and at the same time you don't understand there is it takes at all. nicholas could ever feel many things initially irritated with the animal house, ultimately tea and the

range of topics in gothic art is broad from christian to pro fame formats, very widely from a large altered piece to a tiny miniature panel. paintings with an erotic narrative are rare in the late middle ages, but they do exist. the magic of love is a prime example against the consulate soon again when a white and the whole constellation can still be recognized as highly erotic idle. that seems like a need to woman's clothing or lack of clothing actually makes her even more attracted that an accomplice also fought angle. i believe you can immediately see that this is not a nature loving nudity or an innocent nudity. like even the garden of eden should have been knocked tightly by if and patty saw none. the sweats, the culturally formed erotic no detail before because she is still wearing some

clothing. i say, even though it is a pack lad astorga packed when an uncle and another fully dressed person, either this gentleman wearing as loot is watching, won't ever, through cooked. but this is some kind of erotic mechanics or visual marker that still works to day as it did in the 15th century. and i was a full, tanya, to be done from internet will not next to the young woman, a bunks with an oversized heart inside. she holds a flint and sponge in her hand lighting and dousing the heart at the same time as she practices her magic. the question is, who does the heart belong to? a gothic thought bubbles show us what's going on in their heads. even the parrot on the right, as a banner as well as the dog

at the couples feet, they are all communicating with one another, thus as to fish for us 1st, cynthia on that. but it's typical of the 15th century that 1st draw then because they are simply unbelievably real quick toward saying does they show us every day, culture and objects naturally and then gets, then there is always a break stop. vega is, for example, it's more important to show the whole room of a room with 2 windows eyes. that's not just a sectional, that logical house is the stuff should only be heal. organise as or if the pictures meaning is more important than absolute realism. deborah doyle or goober, is on him. absolutely. alice. so what actually is gothic art? the term gothic is attributed to the italian george of a saudi considered the founding father of art history. when were sorry,

wrote the following quote. in 1568. he was mocking the art form. gothic means clumsy and in harmonious in his criticism, for sorry, referred primarily to the architecture that nordic nations had brought to italy, but sorry, demarcated a style north of the alps. there is no doubt he preferred the italian renaissance but to day we used the term gothic without judgment. at the time, churches offered the most access to artworks. however, these paintings and sculptures were not considered to be works of art in their own right. they were cult objects. ah, the large winged altars that have withstood the test of time are particularly

impressive. ah, one of the most beautiful is in the cologne cathedral, the altar peace of the patron saints of cologne. another masterpiece by steph unlocked. now. the adoration of the kings follows the centuries old tradition of the mother of god and the magic and yet luck, nor creates a work that is new and different. mary is depicted so realistically that the viewer can almost feel her cloak and touch her crown. on the left panel of the altar, saint ursula and the virgins approached the viewer in youthful feminine delicacy. and on the opposite wing of lifesize portrait of saint garry on

isn't often muzzled some guy from though suddenly they are close enough to touchstone the carry on. is the one in golden armor. even with a velvet cross, you have the feeling you could knock on it and it's a metal issue. and that realism brings the characters ally of they're actually here among us. and you can imagine them much better than in some abstract painting. and if you pray is holy gary artist, please hear me or something like that. well, it's as if gary on is looking at you and he's looking towards the center for that. but some of them seem to be looking right at the viewer. so you come face to face with them as if they're real people. it's as if they're here, the illusion workers are chosen. but how did diff unlocked nor create the solution? in 1442, that the scenes look so true to life. lucky demonstrates his mastery of painting. the metal armor shimmers as if it truly is metal.

the velvet is soft and shimmery. lou, the chalice is depicted so realistically that viewers can almost feel the cold smooth surface with their fingers. or at the time the city fathers commissioned the altar peace of the patron saints of cologne. and by creating a virtuoso painting, they created a lasting monument to themselves as well. latina had terry earlier in the mid 30th locked now, mastered the ability to depict shiny metals transparent. glasses glittering,

gemstones starts with all of this using just paint law. he did, it's absolutely convincingly audio. the city fathers must have been amazed at what a marvel it was. because and this marble put them in a good light to they were trying to tell the viewers that they were on top of things like the state of the, our state of the art longer exemplified the power of art in the late middle ages. during his time, the painter was so influential that he himself was a member of the cologne city council. he represented the painters guilt. but where did locklear learn these skills? he must have been familiar with the works of the iconic yon for nyc. when eggs movement began in the netherlands and was an instant sensation, paintings like that didn't even exist during the renaissance, which was happening at the same time in italy. a tiny panel painting by young,

for nyc, craftsmanship at its finest. no mallet i, it's dusty. it was a great innovation in the art world. yeah. and it most certainly came from yon ike in the netherlands opa. it spread throughout europe. he was the innovator is as the 1st since ancient times to capture surface textures. and most of all optical phenomena manifests with one optical phenomenon is the light shining through a church window with raised living gleaming splotches on the walls and floor or this golden crown with all its precious stones a perfect illusion. and does this at 1st glance in my opinions, this is something that yon font icon must have developed. the ability to represent gold with paint of yellow white, black,

brown and gold. cummins gold that really shines cleansed before this time. as for her, the only way to do it was to actually take gold foil and rub it on the painting it and it does shine. but only when light hits it. and you can always see something flat on the surface of the painting to overflow to dispute, as if this is the pioneering achievement of late gothic art. gold is no longer reproduced with real gold medals are now painted in relationship to how light falls art is infused with a new found liveliness, depth, and beauty. debate of age, built on it. i know under that name is mr. me a p. me, a world of images underwent a profound change, or is it used to be that the primary focus was what was objectively there. for

example, a red object was completely red, but it's a red ball was red, the water. but now the red ball is only partly red is the glut where the light falls like a white spot is created as if the object is smooth. and so there is a white highlight ist, and there's black and places where there's no light at all. was it from them gauged on so the transformation is that it's no longer what i know about the object, but what i see does is it's an intellectual achievement. it's not craftsmanship. beneath many people believe that this has something to do with. meticulous and skillful talent. us, but it's actually just the opposite of talent. it has to be processed in the brain life. one has to understand these principles and it went through europe like wildfire. desert people were bold over by this new form of illusion that the perfect illusion in the 15th century. it came as a shock, a short, 20 or 30 years beforehand, affects like these were impossible for painters. and

thanks to this true life painting, today's viewers can read the pictures like detectives, the alter piece of the patron saints of cologne. carrion's armour reveals an explosive story. the saints armour reflects window crosses. however, they are not church windows. the question becomes, what location to the city fathers choose for this artistic marvel? the answer, the chapel of the cologne council and the chapel is actually a converted synagogue. residency permits were no longer extended for jews and cologne. in 1442, the middle of the 15th century was a time of anti semitism. and so the altar was used for much more symbolic reasons

than simple spiritual devotion. the work of stefan locklear formulated sharp ideological urban policy. in the illegal carla's and i go the stance and ask i will often buy darvin d believing heights was in the former cologne synagogue. and when he was asked to visually demonstrate the superiority of christianity judaism will believe. according to john one verse, 14 hundreds. as the word becomes, flesh does lot and it cannot and must also become an image doth also off need fear or the end question to kazama is creating christian imagery and a triumphant way denila that is now unpleasant for us, for ah, ah, this altar is a show of power, an impressive one because the ideological and emotional impact of such an altar was

much greater almost 600 years ago than it is today. ah. alters were not only commissioned by city fathers or the church. they were also donated by wealthy individuals. both aristocrats and commoners. with the donation of an altar piece of family hopes to short, mid stay in purgatory. a jo needed alter also serves as a very secular representation. look at us, we can afford something like this. ah, such a virtuously painted picture makes an impression. ah,

ah, this is fagel. i suppose. this is a time. it was comparatively few paintings, although that is of course not absolute paintings, warrant and unknowns, but there was also very limited access off during the middle ages. there were more and more paintings if there was an inflation at 1st there was perhaps an image of mary or the crucifixion in a church. later there were 70 alters in a church, and each one featured a painting as it inside them as of a student bid at atlanta as well as lloyd to give them back. then there were certainly fewer pictures than to day for her always and none date had with them. even the things we don't see a such like commercials or labels alice build it, but those are images that influence us all the time. which to me, it was like that back then, the notice in the henzy, but the 15th century was also a turning pointed port. i just, it's i that was when printed pictures were introduced. once, if up i,

it was suddenly image as became present at an unimaginable scale. it will help mission unbound muscle present. a media revolution happened in the middle of the 15th century. the invention of the printing press by your highness, good and bad. from 1450 onwards, it also benefited paintings. the new technique revolutionized observation and perception. around 1450, the demand for pictures and books was equally great. in the beginning, several printing processes existed at the same time. in this tiny bavarian prayer book from around 1440, the pictures are printed, but the text is still hand written. the beaten den, once done, i'm under sticking woodall, i'm close to undertaking voice knows who prayed, worshippers at home or worshippers in the monastery, wanted to have

a visual idea of salvation. christie, and above all, it's all what the passion of christ looked like at if by so pictures began to be included with prayer books fairly quickly. the bit rare books are very small, and it's nice to imagine that you can pick up a book like this and pray it. and at the same time study and admire the small pictures wound on and use the image to reinforce your inner devotional. under vita, for fact, this work literally wrote publishing history, a pilgrimage to the holy land was not only put on paper in words, but also illustrated. in addition to depictions of traditional costumes or crocodiles, the travel book shows so called v duda, or city views of folded panorama of jerusalem. it is considered the 1st top graphically correct view

of the holy city. ah, technically brilliant. the copper plate, engravings of martin shone gower, st. anthony, tormented by demons shown gower and grave. the motif into copper plate in extreme detail. as the son of a goldsmith, he must have learned to work with metal. sean gower depicted saint anthony surrounded by a host of tortuous monsters. the peace is said to have even inspired a painting by the mighty italian michelangelo d the 3 wounds and saw english organelle. darcy, in these figures are so incredibly original argument that they were widely admired and the 15th and 16th centuries appear and were copied by other artists

michelangelo. we know, for example, that michelangelo took a piece of paper and went to the fish market to study the fish that he suspected were used for schon, gowers monster, heads are cookson, phone go us for mooted to this copper engraving by shown gower is considered to be the largest that the time christ carrying the cross engraved around $1475.00. a medieval picture puzzle. copies of the print spread throughout europe from southern germany to the

iberian peninsula. o in late gothic art genres, intertwine, design influences, painting and sculpture. a melting pot of media's awe, thanks to the new art forms, the viewers of your are treated to a completely new visual experience. works of art are considered masterpieces even without color. ah, and so these sculptures are without a colorful version that would have been previously inconceivable. tillman raymond, shadows beneath painting tells of mary magdalen seen jesus after the resurrection. ah, the sculptor used the copper and grieving by shown dour as the template. yeah,

i saw spooky, sylvie de hum and the relief has an awesome sense of the great trauma. so the faults of the garments are in movement down as if windows blowing through a lesson. in order for shoes fit le kretmoore, particularly he pe landscape is also very special to see marker the hatching changes from hill to hill. and from our view, the landscape seems much more very low to pure indifference. yes, you're all, plenty for home only pays as dorcas solar as wooten quality, but how much he could pay. the dramatic dimension is added halls and creates that don't feel these are actually tools of graphic art. paul mosque was told that his fussiness had casee a maria, and more younger fix, younger whether locker or shown, gower leman, schneider, or from laden. today their names are known only to a few but did these artists already

see themselves as artists? the concept of the ingenious and the individual creative artist is said to have been developed during the renaissance de milo, the painters, and sculptors, and so on. were craftsman by profession. glad means they were part of the middle upper middle class, which often with some property and education, you can almost all of them could write the unknowns out. on the other hand, it has to be said that at the time the artists were clearly not the same kind of craftsman as locksmiths or shoemakers. and so they transcend mere craftsman status because of their names. they were famous artists loom to consider gifted martin shone gower, the virtual, so engraver mastered to genres,

creating copper plate, engravings and panel paintings and italian scholar in the 19th century wrote that michelangelo was right to admire. this artist, from the far north, the scholar had seen this tableau by shown gower in the art collection of a noble sicilian. the sconces eloquent all it's just a small wooden panels of us and it really has something jewel like about it. it has its price. i'm you have to have an exceptionally good artist lucifer, but after it's finished, but you can place it next to a window or you can hold it in your hand unless it's small and take a very close look at the beautiful details. digitize cow, unbelievable. it is that in such a tiny picture, there is an entire lance ala has in just a few centimeters. you have a lake deal, it's a block of sheep, a town. you have the feeling that the picture stretches for kilometers into the background, lunch and all of this in such a small scale. of course,

it's totally astonishing. it's not, not for items. we're used to depth from pictures, we know photography for people back then. let's say around 1475, just the fact that something like this existed was, it must have been quite extraordinary though, just as well hope keeped. the great centers of art north of the alps were located in cologne, prague, and especially in southern germany. but many rural pilgrimage churches also have the power and means to commission famous artists this is how the small sway be and village stephen bon. gives us the story of a great work of art in the church of saint mary magdalen, the magdalen altar tells of mary magdalen, his voyage to southern france that you don't wanna touch the tv on altar is an extraordinary work. a very

elaborate oil painting on and would of to, it was probably the most refined, modern and grandest work of art that existed in southern germany at that time. that's an fy. far vomit obstruct. when the last one you have to get so close to the painting that you almost touch it with your nose and. and when you get that close, like you can see all the delicacy and sophistication i paintings in front as a little boat where the st. lazarus and magdalena and martha sale on the sea, and then you look over the water and on the surface there are small ships with very detailed rigging and you get the feeling that it really goes tens or hundreds of kilometers into the pictures. a depth is depicted incredibly wild, uncombed under, and then there's a city and in front of it, a gallows, where someone is being hung out. there were soldiers in a circle and so that they are tiny really ant sized, like very small antics. and they really only consist of dots, but if you're close enough, you can still see, for example,

that the soldiers are wearing armor glittering armor. you can see the whole scene scene elite. in addition, other unusual details testify to the virtuosity of the artist. mars's halo is transparent, so that lazarus, his face can be seen above this is the unusually intimate scene of a couple while the man is sleeping. mary magdalen appears to the woman in a dream. the pagan from the south of france is immediately converted to christianity. the clothes of the undressed blow, cook kedisha from the window, mitsubishi and it came in the middle of the picture. you can see a queer wall made of course, hewn blocks of red sandstone, which is wonderfully painted. it is, it, it looks like you could touch it,

you can feel the roughness of the style. and then there are metal rings that cast small shadows as you can actually hear them rattling those iron rings on the wall and so on. and that's a huge motif, this wall o'keefe, the painter, put an infinite amount of work into it. and next to that, there is another church under construction where a broken, ancient and figure of a god stands. it also beautifully painted must. it's holding a chain and on the chain below is a monkey, a chain blind, the monkey linda, apparently alluding to the blind, godless natural world. so the motifs are unbelievable to either ah, during this time, artists rarely signed their work. here however, the pain to remote alleged himself in gold letters lucas mussa. at the same time he left behind a mystery for the world to solve a gift

alena sila does. he then adds a line that became famous in the 19th century, and that has repeatedly led to controversy. in the 19th century, it was labeled as a forgery, but its real clear lays of issue and it reads and scream and complain. art. nobody desires you to day. oh, it hurts. yeah, scream, art, scream movie. so screens, parts scream and complain all the way up. nobody desires you any more to day of their yes, natalie. first glance, that seems strange because as i mentioned it, this line is on the most modern work of the time in the region in vickers can in reality, it's not morning for a time that is past where people understood more about artist of it. it's obviously a rhetorical complaint from an artist who feels that he has not been understood as a full fashion with fruit. in the end, it is self praise, which means something like this. art, it is personified. it should even scream yet because this is his skill, his art i,

it is so great in this picture and by the ways, so new that no one can really appreciate it on zillow ligans does. and i think that's what is meant, which does, does what i'm creating here is so great. you don't understand it? of course, artist as fish did ah. the late middle ages, around 1480 was a time of transition. many acclaimed ground breaking, artistic developments are becoming known. that is what makes this art so exciting. portraits, for example, are still a rarity. most depictions of people are ideal images. this pair of lovers is also portrayed in an idealized manner. and yet in their faces we can already catch

a glimpse of a portrait of real people in a silver point drawing of the same couple the artist takes the theme of love of little further. the drawing is highly erotic as he sticks his hand into the soft hat, the extremely sharp dagger speaks for itself is foolish, little reminiscent enough washing machine guns. i live up thus, and pockets controversial, or there is disagreement about whether this is a portrait of 2 actual people or whether it's more of an idealized portrait of lovers. as is leaders, past psyched, both the woman and the man where royal garments. she hands him a bundle of red fabric strings. the actual purpose for which it was used is a mystery. another secret. the question of the couples exact

relationship with one another? yes, bundle is act the head but need guns for the banner real soon. she would not have completely despised you. the one who made the court for you fuzzy. what she saying is the woman, the one who gave you this court didn't quite despise you against that as a so it's an understatement. she likes you very much again, natalie's and miss a bit more difficult and controversial is his reply devils and wanted. as jackie says, she did it unfairly if i want her to enjoy and as you can, nissan lun does. this is at us really get a little more difficult and it opens up all kinds of possibilities and soon smoothly tightened the sca meredith, the one interpretation as she gave herself to me illegally because i seduced her with love. i seemingly missed goodness for food harbor. as we are an entropy london

of that would be an allusion to the fact that what we are seeing here is perhaps not befitting or not maritime in the hill. and that this meeting is actually quite improper from the biden anglicans, wincing the as the muzzle. mr. v assumption is that he is a nobleman, she a commoner. the many puzzles of this picture contradict the realism of the details. his forearm is tangible and the tenderness of their almost touching fingers is true to life. since then, they will notice let's hide india ante malachite as a hint against the 15th century was the time when painting he took on a very strong relationship to the real world, stella and you see it and depictions of love like this one the, his, this kite but it also appears in the ugliness of other figures and which are shown simply in the kind and that makes it possible for the disciples of christ to have

very rough physical feature analysis that again, that was easy. and obviously they looked like real people who are made of flesh of dish classify from clinton as a d, even gillian, etc. the gospel story is brought back to earth and carried out by real people else who can also be ugly or can appear rough for have a strong emotional expression, kentland and shocking their facial features don't have to be shown balanced and in their best light, omitting to fought and half them even. these excite late gothic art portrays profane and christian motifs, lovers and st. the erotic, and the terrifying it is surprising how much the genres are mutually dependent. a graphic can influence a sculpture or a panel painting, or even a handicraft.

research into the effects of medieval winged altars is far from over. ah, what is striking however, is how skillfully the artists were able to implement optical phenomena at a time when the size of the globe could not yet be estimated. at a time when america had not yet been discovered. ah, it is precisely this exacting observation of the world that makes late gothic art as innovative as it is groundbreaking. ah,

ah, ah, the cologne cathedrals alter peace of the patron saints of cologne, features a multitude of different plants underneath the saint's feet. vincy, mo admitted a delicious network who knew and quickly if you look at a medieval natural history book, you can read in it that the fly is the smallest bird. do you get a scholars didn't have a great deal of knowledge you can, but they did have wonderfully painted properly observed flies in painting as they just show up out of nowhere result the artist didn't know that the fly wasn't a bird formulas, but he saw exactly what it was like and that it had 6 legs and transparent wings do seem to get through. the world could be grasped through observation in a way that natural sciences of the time could not about mission. in other words, but when exploring nature,

art comes 1st for noon. oh, this panel painting summarizes both mystical and optical knowledge. around 1440 stefan lock, no painted madonna in the rose garden, late gothic painting at its peak windows reflected in a blue sapphire. the gem represents the new moon because the halo of our lady is here at the same time. astronomy, the science of the stars. when the crescent moon enlarges to the former, the face of our lady. here we are no longer looking at a purely devotional image, not a cult object for prayer. it is a perfect work of art.

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