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Today we are going to do the analyses of the work
"The Madonna of the Church", from Jan Van Eyck
Welcome.
Hello. Welcome to CriaArte. I'm Sara, and today we
are going to analyse one of the most
beautiful and latests works of art from Jan Van Eyck
Last week we were here analysing
That master piece that is the Altar-Piece
from Ghent. A very interesting work.
If you are interested I'm going to leave here the link
And today we continue with Jan Van Eyck, but we
will analyse a completely different work. Also one
religious art, one work with
one ideology (iconography)
and Christian symbology, but one work
that is a great work. Let's look at it and analyse.
whit a lot of detail and care. We are seeing "The Madonna
on the Church", from Jan Van Eyck.
It's from 1438. We can see this work in
the Gemäldegalerie
in the Staatlieche Museum, in Berlim, Germany
And really is unbelievable. Jan Van
Eyck is a excellent painter, and part of that excellence
is his ability to crate a realistic atmosphere
even when representing the impossible.
And this work is...prove of that.
The prove that Van Eyck was a virtuoso
Was a painter of the Final Gothic, and we can see
that clearly in this work. He was also a painter
of details, that could create
One real and unreal atmosphere.
At the same time. It's real in the sense
that the image looks real in our eyes
and its unreal in the sense that we look
and understand that is a vision. Maria is incredibly
magnificent in this work. She is exceptionally
beautiful, and she is in an
absolutely magnificent Gothic Church
Maria fill all the space and present herself to us
like a Queen. In here Maria is the Queen
of Heaven. With a rich Crown in her head
A Crown full of jewels, and with a embroidered dress
also whit jewels and gold. What is present
before us is an apparition
One vision of Maria in a church not that different from others
Church's that existed in the final period the 15th Century and in the
beginning of the 16th Century. That impresses more
the spectator of this work. It's a probable scenery
for one unreal vision. The background
behind the head of the Virgin
We can see a beautiful piece
sculptured in wood with great detail
In this piece can see three stories
from the life of Maria
Through the slightly open door we can see
two Angels singing with a Book of Carols. Above Maria's left shoulder
we can see a wood sculpture
That is a sculpture of Maria herself with the Baby
Just like the Virgin before us
that holds Christ in her arms. It's like an illusion
It's like the wood sculpture of Maria
had come to live, and is body, and is blood
and is before us. This image
is a mixture of earthly and the divine
in a credible way, due to the work
That Van Eyck made with the light.
In here we can see representation of a stream
of natural light from the Gothic windows
That finish with two focus of light in the ground
Right in front of the Madonna. We spectators
look at the East part of the Church, this way
the light that we see in the ground comes from the North
And in that case, makes the
focus of light in the ground impossible, because of that
we realize that this light as an origin in mystic
divine, supernatural, and this work
that we see is about the light.
this work is vibrating because of the light that goes through
the beautiful Gothic Windows into the sacred space
In the Medieval Ages this lights an important symbol
of Maria chastity. This is the
image of the ideal Church: it presents a fairytale
architecture from the Medieval and Gothic ideals
from Jan Van Eyck. This work "The Madonna
of the Church" was stolen in 1877
And the panel was obviously recovered
the original frame of it was not recovered
But we know that the framed contained an inscription:
"Like a ray of sunshine goes trow the
the glass and doesn't stain. Like this
the Virgin is, just like before Virgin was"
Interesting right? And beautiful. I like this work a lot
from Van Eyck. I think it is fantastic.
I think this is beautiful and magnificent Maria
and that is the reason I chose this work to analyse
because He has more famous works, that we also are going to
analyse in CriaArte in the next weeks
but I felt that this art work was so beautiful
that we needed to analyse it in our channel.
and it was, right?
And for today was all. We finish the
analyses of "The Madonna of the Church" from Jan Van Eyck
Next week we are going to continue with the analyses of the work
of this fantastic Gothic Painter, of the Flemish Art
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Stay well. I'm Sara.Tchaaaauuuuu
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