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From 14th Century To 15th Century

  • Yoel Davis

Yoel Davis

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Italian, Paris or Pavia ca. 1374/75–after 1438 Verona / The Met

    This deeply affective work combines an austerity in the composition with an elegance in the description of the figures that is characteristic of painting at the cosmopolitan court in Milan under Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351 - 1402).
    Stefano da Verona was a leading exponent of this refined style, which owes much to sculpture and to French miniature painting.
    The delicately tooled gold background emulates expensive goldsmith work (the thornless roses are emblems of the Virgin Mary).

The Crucifixion

German, Westphalian, active ca. 1400–35 / The Met

    This Crucifixion shares a trait with other works of the so-called courtly (or International) style that prevailed in Europe in the years around 1400.
    The artist was one of the foremost painters in northwest Germany.
    The main panel is still in the Neustädter Marienkirche in Bielefeld, Westphalia.

The Deity Vajrabhairava, Tantric Form of the Bodhisattva Manjushri

Asian Art / The Met

    The most popular tantric manifestation of Manjushri is Vajrabhairava.
   Here, he has a buffalo head, holds an array of weapons, and tramples on birds, dogs, and Hindu gods
    In this form, he is sometimes called Yamantaka, or the defeater of death, a deity that ends the cycle of rebirth and provides a path to nirvana.
    He frightens away egotism and selfishness - the root of suffering - and in this true form reveals the awesome and terrifying nature of enlightenment.

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