Sujet

Collage, 1850s-1860s. Creator: John Bingley Garland.

Légende

Collage, 1850s-1860s. Additional Info: The English amateur artist John Bingley Garland created this collage by arranging prints and gold foil paper on a large, buff-colored sheet of paper. He further embellished the collage with red opaque watercolor mimicking drops of blood. Garland arranged these elements to emulate the layout of a medieval illuminated manuscript. In the upper left corner, Garland glued a page from the facsimile edition of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I’s Prayer Book (1513-15), containing, among other motifs, a monstrous winged creature and a scene of Death armed with a scythe chasing a horseman. He replaced the original Latin text of the book of hours with a lengthy passage from the Night Thoughts, a fashionable poem written by Edward Young (1683-1765) that explores themes of grief and death of a loved one. Garland covered the rest of the sheet with cut-out prints as if they were marginal decoration of a codex page. In the lower center, Mary Magdalene lies prone on a bed of colored blossoms as an angel plays the violin. On the left, a minute figure of a crucified Christ surrounded by cherubs emanates golden rays. Above him, a serpent coils around terrified horsemen, creating a visual echo with the adjacent representation in the Prayer Book.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A75_299

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

245,5Mo (34,9Mo) / 68,1cm x 90,3cm / 8047 x 10663 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature religious flower flowers plant plants arts religion metal book color design decoration decorative Christianity gold century collage Bible floral literature Biblical concept decorated manuscript flowered manuscripts Colour 19th century graphic design gold leaf nineteenth century book of hours illuminated manuscript Young Edward Edward Young Heritage Art Drawing 19th-century Dr Young Collage of prints and metallic foil with watercolour and pen and brown ink John Bingley Garland Garland John Bingley