Christmas 2023

 Salvete Omnes,

Willem Vrelant's Nativity miniature

Today is Christmas Eve - if  you are celebrating , then do enjoy your special feast with the family and friends, may it be full of joy, tasty foods made at home and happiness.

Merry Christmas to you all, dear friends -:) 

Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia - wesolosci i humoru, pieknej a smacznej Wigilii 

Feliz Navidad...

May your horse, dogs and other domestic animals stay healthy and useful 

Merry Christmas  - may peace prevail and wars cease

and some medieval horses for your pleasure

Valete

XV-XVI century Gothic crucifixion

Salvete Omnes,
 another Good Friday and perhaps today is a good day to reminisce about that Crucifixion that took place in Jerusalem almost 2000 years ago.

Today I would like to share with you some late Gothic art, namely the sculptural works, from Northwestern Europe, being part of the altarpieces and objects of veneration.
From Saint Peter Church in Dortmund comes the amazing large wooden altarpiece or a retabulum (reredos) - Goldenes Wunder von Westfalen. It was made in by an Antwerp workshop,it is  the largest surviving Antwerp altar showing in detail the entire Passion of Christ.

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..more Antwerp style retables, :

Dijon Museum retable  crucifixion












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Pruszcz altar - detail

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 Vienna altar

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 saint Kornelius et Cyprian altar



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 Louven altar


 The coming of the Reformation and the wars that followed terminated the wooden Gothic style reredo making in Antwerp.
Valete