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RE: Art Explained By A Writer - Het Zieke Kind (The Sick Child - 1660-1665)
Paintings during this period were a bit creepy. I imagine if electricity was out during a thunderstorm and you were staring at these paintings illuminated by lightning...
I doubt they had electricity back then, for sure not the average person.
The paintings were more like what we call "hel en verdoemenis" (hell and doom) and they dominated, no way you could escape. Even if the picture faded away you still saw it. I remember one about a praying girl in nightdress on her knees in front of the bed. It hung at the wall and stared at me at my grandmother's house. It still haunts me after all those years (I went to sleep in the attic LOL).
There was also a huge painting of Jesus crucified. It was actually a nice one and I could never find out who painted it. It was huge and hung in the villa above a black cabinet. The background was black and Jesus white.. so it's clear what you see if the light were off (oil lamps in the living same effect).
Somehow it reminds me of the dark ages. I say dark because that's what it is. Kind of lost of hope and starting something new. According to a historian, the Medieval wasn't that dark. They loved colours (clothes included) especially read and blue.