... virtually any ...
if not all photos that are part of the project in pioneering conceptual internet art could be titled
(or the other way round)
↓ ↓ ↓
Carl Bloch
(Danish)
! but !
without the slightest doubt
there are only a couple of names in history of visual arts
connected to said theme
↓ ↓ ↓
the magic of the Stable of Bethlehem ... along with the mocking of the adult Christ Jesus ... like you never ever experienced
it up to
! now !
!!! promised !!!
: Keyword :
("light-dark")
! ... in this bubble of unprecedented magical depth you will experience a spine-chilling two-level contrast ... !
! high versus low !
(Franz Liszt)
(Hungarian/Austrian)
in line with the
... visual appearance ...
______________________________________________________________________________
rather less known
Gerard van Honthorst and Matthias Stom(er)
(both Dutch)
rather less known
(Italian)
rather less known
(Dutch)
rather less known
(Flemish)
commonly known
(Spanish)
rather less known
(Flemish)
rather less known
(French)
rather less known
(Italian)
rather less known
(Italian)
rather less known
(Italian)
unknown
(probably - most likely - Giuseppe Passeri)
rather less known
(Italian)
rather less known
(Spanish-Italian)
rather less known
(Flemish)
↑ ↑ ↑
: as far as I am concerned as an individual living at the brink of the 20th to the 21st century :
! my !
!! favourite old masters !!
↓ ↓ ↓
very well known
Michael Angelo Merigi da Caravaggio
(Italian)
very well known
Domínikos Theotokópoulos
('El Greco')
(Greek-Spanish)
rather less known
Antonio da Corregio
(Italian)
very well known
(Flemish)
! too good to be true - true to be good too !
... once again ...
! : remember the dialectic approach of the net art project you are within : !
!!! and notice the devotional faces in contrary to the malicious faces in this companion paintings !!!
rather less known
(Dutch)
rather less known
(Dutch)
rather less known
(Italian)
rather less known
(French)
rather less known
(Flemish)
commonly known
(Flemish)
rather less known
(Flemish)
rather less known
(Flemish)
rather less known
(Spanish-Italian)
rather less known
(Italian)
rather less known
(Italian)
rather less known
(French)
unknown
(possibly Cecco del Caravaggio, Italian, most likely Bartholomeo Manfredi, Italian)
rather less known
(Italian)
rather less known
(Italian)
very well known
("Caravaggio")
!!! Michael Angelo Merigi da Caravaggio !!!
(Italian)
(Michael Angelo Merigi da Caravaggio, Jusepe de Riberia, Jacob Jordaens: the classic painters I really like, you see)
and
best known
!? kind of déjà vu ?!
("Rembrandt")
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
(Dutch)
and again
rather less known
(also Dutch with his companion painting)
... once more ...
you grasp the magnitude of a really deep magical sphere emanating from these linked works of art
after all
nobody actually knows what light really
is nor for that
?! matter !?
Niccolò Paganini
(Italian)
... as it turns out to be with so called ...
Lodewijk van Beethoven
(Flemish-German)