Samson Drugging the Cat @lemmy.sdf.org grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org 1y ago

detail from "Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele". Oil painting on oak panel. Jan van Eyck, ca 1434.

Image description: painting of a marble statue of Samson holding open a lion's mouth.

This is a detail from this painting:

Image description of full painting: huge painting, framed, of the Christian Madonna with baby Jesus in her lap. She is seated on a throne. To her left is a blue-robed religious figure with a bishop hat. To her right is a kneeling white-robed man and a standing armored man. There are tiny statues to her left and right, one of which is the detail image.

Found at: wikipedia. In collection of the Groeningemuseum.

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Note: this is the first time I've used the embedded alt text feature for an image in Lemmy. If anyone's visually impaired and has an opinion on alt text image descriptions vs paragraph image descriptions, lemmy know.
I read that as "Virgin and Chad" at first.

Could I have had too much internet? No, it is the words that are wrong.
What an absolutely gorgeous painting. Thank you for including the link for the museum. I spent a bit of time scrolling around looking at all the details. They are so intricate; it's incredible the amount of care that artists put into their work
- You're welcome. The painting's not as big as I thought it was--it's "only" 1.6meters wide. I think my favorite tiny detail is the fraying on the edge of the rug.