- композиция:
- The whole panel is marked by an extraordinary sense of profane pleasure in such a sumptuous display of rich colours.
- композиция:
- This is an almost oriental fantasy. Some of the figures were probably inspired by the many exotic faces the painter would have seen around him in Antwerp.
- The panel depicts the moment at which Joseph of Arimathea comes to ask the Virgin for Her permission to bury Christ's body.
- Behind the central action is the hill of Golgotha, with its few trees, the cross and the crucified thieves.
- The panel depicts the moment at which Joseph of Arimathea comes to ask the Virgin for Her permission to bury Christ's body.
- композиция:
- The right hand panel is a scene of extraordinary cruelty, depicting St John, his body plunged into a cauldron of boiling oil.
- The saint, who is naked from the waist up, seems almost angelic, as if he were not suffering.
- Around him is a crowd of sadistic faces, ugly boors in garish clothes.
- The one exception to this rule is the figure of a young Flemish boy, who is watching the scene from above in a tree.
котёл
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- The saint, who is naked from the waist up, seems almost angelic, as if he were not suffering.
- файл
kfki.hu/~arthp/art/m/massys/quentin/1/st_john1.jpg
