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Glad you enjoyed! It’s an incredible painting.

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Plum Brandy by Édouard Manet.

Ahh the good old days

Why?

The best civilization man has ever created.

🔍 I love that no theory has been settled on

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I believe Matejko was a devout catholic.

The bible doesn’t make this claim, but it was a widespread belief held by many - including the church. Copernicus initially had the support of the church to publish his findings and give lectures on it. But it was eventually deemed a threat to the church’s authority (not the Bible’s authority!) Within the Catholic church, a decision was eventually made to ban the teaching of this discovery. Protestants were more tolerant of the teaching which makes sense as the denomination is younger than the discovery!

@@ArtwithBen the controversy over his theories didn’t start right away, it took some years for the church to really start to get mad about it, but the Bible definitely does make those claims. Psalms 19:4 “god has made a home for the sun in the heavens” Joshua 10 is the story of a battle and in verses 12 and onward it says Joshua prays to the lord for the sun to stop and the moon to halt to allow more light for battle: “So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies." (Verse 13) this is the one that really ruffled feathers because it was like Copernicus was claiming a recorded miracle didn’t actually happen And it’s believed that the “earth is at the center” theory all started with the description of the “three tiers” in genesis 16 (“the waters below, the heavens above, and the earth at the center”) ALTHOUGH this one heavily depends on which version of the Bible someone is reading since they are all translated differently. (Ps- I should also point out I’m not even technically religious. I just have read the Bible before out of interest and am a huge history nerd about the 1400s-1600s specifically)

@@hannahbarrett1221 Interesting! While I disagree that those verses are making that claim, it would be interesting to see evidence that the church thought so! Re: Psalm 19, it is a song written by King David. It’s wrong to treat it as a scientific statement. Similarly re: Joshua 10 - the sun doesn’t really rise, the earth spins. But we still say sunrise. (Joshua or some scribe or later author wrote that the sun stopped.) Genesis - those tiers are true! It is speaking of the earth, not the universe. What do you think?

Now that you mention it…

A high hairline was fashionable. In 15th Century Northern Europe, ladies would shave the front off to have a bigger forehead. A *fivehead* if you will.

Love this! Beauty is more cultural than we give credit for nowadays ​@@ArtwithBen

Northern European paintings of this time have a haunting quality to them. Still so striking today

‘Marriage in Europe 1400-1800’ written by Charles Donahue. Here is a portion of the book :) degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442625488-004/html?lang=en

‘Marriage in Europe 1400-1800’ written by Charles Donahue.

Can you point me to the "something black coming from the woman", please?

@@fsutaria Im sorry i dont know why i wrote that, but you can see in the mirror that they are not holding hands soo yeah

The dog and not holding hands might indicate more that time passed, maybe the two are getting married in the painting, and receiving guests in the mirror? It'd be incredibly difficult to paint a dog in the mirror since it probably wouldn't hold still

That might be juicy gossip. Arnolfini (the man in the painting) commissioned Jan van Eyck for this portrait. If Eyck knew of the bride's unfaithfulness it would be bold to paint it in without Arnolfini's knowledge. If Arnolfini knew, it would be even stranger to have it preserved in paint at great expense!

So many symbols! If this one was a pain, what painting did you love to study?

Thank you

Nice sketches!

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