where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop
THANK YOU
somebody please explain
Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.
…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle
There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.
In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:
It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.
honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here
You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!
jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!
HANS OH MY GOD
anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit
No, I think you’re missing the real deal here
World Heritage Post
320 pages of wonderful scholarship about one painting.
“The Celtic Midwinter is also known as Meán Geimhridh or Grianstad an Gheimhridh in Irish. Solstices and equinoxes were thought to be very important to the pre- and early-Celtic people, as seen through the construction of several tombs whose passages align with the solstice sun, such as Newgrange. These solstices were seen as occurring at the midpoint of each season, hence the name ‘Midwinter’ for the Winter Solstice.
In the Celtic landscapes, the winter solstice is an ancient seasonal rite of passage that is ageless. We do know not when our ancestors first stood together and paused in harmony at midwinter. Irish sacred sites such as the world-famous Newgrange cairn, aligned to the morning’s rising sun tell us that over 5,000 years ago, the winter solstice was important enough to build a temple to this poignant solar event. In Irish Gaelic, solstice is ‘grianstad’ (Gree-ann-stad), literally translating as ‘sunstop’.
The roof-box, as the structure is now called, is situated over a small gap, 20 to 25cm wide, between the first two roofslabs of the passage. It is through this slit that the rays of the rising sun penetrate to the chamber at the time of the midwinter solstice. The roof-box is 90cm high, 1m wide, and 1.2m from front to back.
Today many still gather at Newgrange on winter solstice morn to sing and dance or simply stand in awe as, if skies are clear, the golden orb of the sun peaks above ‘Red Hill’. That this still occurs 5,000 years after Newgrange was built is itself an enthralling phenomenon.
This accuracy in describing the sun’s alignment with the Earth helps us to also momentarily stop and integrate our fast-moving modern lives with this plateau of maximum darkness and minimum light.
The experience of darkness is such a different condition to light and is often sadly stigmatised. We are so accustomed to beginning things when the light is turned on, when the sun rises, when we open our eyes and adjust. Yet nature says that beginnings are in the dark. Life first is dreamed and vibrates in the absence of light. The seeds sown in autumn germinate underground through winter before appearing as shoots in spring. Each one of us lived our first nine months or thereabouts in our mother’s dark womb.
Our ancestors understood this phenomenon intuitively, acknowledging the new day at dusk and the New Year at Samhain (Hallow'een) regarding the climax of the seasonal darkness of winter solstice as the treasured dreamtime of new life. Nature invites us to become courageous and passionate dreamers in synchronicity with the great natural hibernation about us. Our invitation is to birth new prayers, new wishes, new intentions and new manifestations for ourselves and for our world.
In many traditions, winter solstice, also known as midwinter and the festival of yule, is a time for rituals and celebrations. On the island of Ireland, our ancestors who built Newgrange saw winter solstice as a turning point in which reverence of the vital energies of darkness and lightness were understood, honored and celebrated.”
-taken from irishcentral, newgrange, TheMegalithicPortal, and TheCelticJourney wordpress
Nálunk a városban van kicsit öregebb 5700 éves, a Menga dolmen, abban van egy nagy, 20 méter mély szakrális kút is:
Az a dolmen azért különleges, mert nem a naphoz van tájolva (ami elég ritka ezeknél a régi dolmeneknél), hanem egy arc formájú sziklához a város mellett.
Közvetlenül mellette van egy kisebb dolmen is (Viera dolmen), az 6000 éves körül van.
De van egy harmadik dolmen is a városban, azok kb egy kilométerre vannak a többitől, az csak hetyke fiatal, mindössze 3800 éves, a Romeral dolmen:
A lakásunktól 8 perc séta az első kettő, szóval ez az igazán jó része, hogy nem a semmi közepén van, mint általában az ilyenek.
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