Whats your favourite in the background bit from any work of Art?

buried

Mines this. From Hieronymus Bosch's 'The wayfarer/pedlar'

EmmetSpiceland

The legs sticking out of the water in Brueghel’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’.

The full painting:

Pretty much anything from Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights

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shtpEdthePlum

Look.

I like the horse with the teeny balls on the right and the guy with the trumpet on the left whose hand looks like someone mauling onto him.

Also the crossbow pointing directly up and the collections of people "far away".

Uccello did not have a great command of linear perspective but it was better than most at the time so fair dues to him for giving it a shot.

It makes me slightly irritated to see his paintings because if that was the standard of painting nowadays I'd be a living master.

Junkyard Tom

Asterix in Belgium, Feast.

Zirconia

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, containing an anamorphic human skull smeared across the lower part of the painting that can only be viewed correctly standing in front of it and viewing it close from the lower left:

Junkyard Tom

Incidentally the feast scene in Asterix in Belgium is a tribute to 'The Peasant Wedding' by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted in 1567.

Thelonious Monk

I love this painting, I can't find a good close up but the mirror reflection is quite detailed. It's the Van Eyck Arnolfini portrait.

Gregor Samsa

The Mona Lisa has a sister painting displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It was long thought to simply be a copy of DaVinci's original, with a plain black background



However, in 2012, it was restored, and it was discovered that it actually had the same landscape background as the original



Not surprising for a copy, but mathematical analysis was done on the painting, comparing the perspective of the subject and background to the original in the Louvre.

It was discovered that there is a consistent difference in perspective of the two paintings, consistent with them being painted by two different people sitting beside each other, but painting the same subject. So the Madrid painting isn't a copy of the Paris one - it's was actually painted by a student of DaVinci in his studio at the same time he was painting his one.

Furthermore, when the backgrounds were compared, they are the same landscape - but the perspective differences between the two paintings show that the Madrid version is consistently "zoomed in" by 10% compared to DaVinci's. If the background was an actual landscape painted from life, the perspective differences would be inconsistent in the foreground and background. But the fact that they're uniform seems to suggest that the actual background to the subject was itself a painting that was put behind her, a studio backdrop, and that with the two artists sitting in slightly different positions rendered it from a slightly different perspective.



A paper on the research: http://www.experimental-psychology.de/ccc/docs/pubs/CarbonHesslinger_MonaLisa-Background-INPRESS.pdf

growleaves

shtpEdthePlum wrote: »

It makes me slightly irritated to see his paintings because if that was the standard of painting nowadays I'd be a living master.

Pics or GTFO