Roskilde Cathedral

[Robare M. Novou]

Many years ago, one of my mentors showed me a post card of Roskilde Cathedral in Denmark.

He had gone there on Holiday.

He explained that the paintings as well as the moldings and stone work were all Flat, with no dimension.

He said he went to one end of the wall and sited down it, and could see no raised elements.

This Video from Youtube is kinda shaky, but you get the idea. I was told it took 15 years to paint this room back in the 1500's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNwsyPzOnFc

I have some stills that I can post later.

RMN

[erik winkler]

Robare that is some high skill painting.
Often this was used when their were no resources of good quality stone or the stone was just simply to expensive.
This was the case in Nederlands throughout the centuries, because we live on mud.
Our houses are build on treetrunk.
During the seventeenth hundreds it again got poplar to make these trompe l'oeil in rich merchant houses on for instance our Amsterdam canals. They would put them right above the entrance of a door. It was popular because in these years and the centurie before the Dutch also looked at the writings of anchient greece and rome and those scripts talked about the high art form of fooling the eye by making a real 3d world on a flat base (painted on wet chalk etc.)

One of those dutch painters Jacob de Wit was hired to make these cheap alternatives, but not before long his work was so much apreciated that his paintings costed more then the real carvings in stone.
He smacked those paintings on the wall in a few hours at the spot taking in acount on what side the sunlight came in.
Here is a video to show that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJradf0g5c


Erik

[Roderick Treece]

Robare,
Looks an exquiste example of Trompe-L'oel.

[Robare M. Novou]

Exquisite to say the least!

Thanks Erik for that added bonus video link.

We surely need a tour guide of European Art...and you are it, please keep us educated and in the know on these treasures of brush strokes gone by.

Here are two images from the Roskilde Cathedral.

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Thanks to the internet, I can now dust off all those artistic postcards I've stashed away over the years and post the search results here for all to enjoy.