Sky Wall

While I am likely better to ground myself in reality these days, which I find it's difficult to do as I constantly feel like being in the wrong era, was supposed to be born in earlier century. So instead, I fulfilled my classical ego, stretching myself and mind back to the old time through vintage visuals offered on a visit to Rembrandt's house that echoed the life in the seventeenth century.  Having a visit to historical old side always gives me this strange yet happy feeling, as well it constantly gives me goosebumps as I sense it all the way, like an almost otherwordly beauty. The Kitchen. Rembrandt's living and private room , the box bed which was so expensive and only man of means who owned it back then. The place where his wife, Saskia, lied down. Since Rembrandt was also an art dealer back in time, there were so many paintings from painters who were close to him as well paintings made by his pupils. He had this room to keep all ...

*) Favored Piece Flight of Angels, Two Holding a Large Feather , Taddeo Zuccaro , c. 1556 - c. 1558 Pen & brown ink on brown paper with brown wash, heightened with white, h 347mm × w 245mm Starting with my favored piece, even though this is not Baroque I’m going to talk about.  It goes so much in harmony when brown ink is carved on brown paper, naturally and wholly fused to the point that I thought this was a digital art print/design, splendid. This elaborate sheet itself was a design for a spandrel. As a mannerist artist, Zuccaro seemed to really show the characteristics of mannerism in his work by highlighting many sculptural forms with clarity of contrasting lines.  Figura Serpentinata  or technique intended to make figures look more dynamic, is as well used as we can see when they are pictured in spiral pose(s). The fact that it’s appeared in mono-colour doesn’t make his work less compelling since it goes along with subtle and hazy contours of...