Their piacular dreams move them to strange poetries, inverted vatic insight
Their piacular dreams move them to strange poetries, inverted vatic insight
Rembrandt was not alone in the Dutch Golden Age in depicting the landscape with fidelity to observed detail while at the same time imbuing it with the pervasive presence of the numinous
A comparison between Dreyer’s and Bresson’s Joan of Arc films is not only convenient but also fruitful, explicitly establishing their different attitudes toward hagiography.
Individual influence was, of course, discernible, but not peremptory; artists came and went, Byzantine iconography stayed.
