Re: A Puzzling Painting with a sundial

1998-02-15 Thread Mario Arnaldi
As some time happens, we start from a point and we go forward. So we started from the painting seen by Sam Muller, and we are to Gabriel Rossetti. Actually Sam asked for other pictures and Beata Beatrix of Rossetti has taken me in these last time in a discussion on his sundials. As we ca

Re: A Puzzling Painting with a sundial

1998-02-14 Thread LJ Coletti
Fred Sawyer wrote: > > Rosetti's Beata Beatrix is the print that hangs over my desk at work. It > draws many comments. > > The sundial does play a prominent role in the work - not only visually but > also symbolically. If you look closely at the numbers you'll see that they > are not arranged

Re: A Puzzling Painting with a sundial

1998-02-13 Thread Fred Sawyer
Rosetti's Beata Beatrix is the print that hangs over my desk at work. It draws many comments. The sundial does play a prominent role in the work - not only visually but also symbolically. If you look closely at the numbers you'll see that they are not arranged correctly. They are twisted aroun

Re: A Puzzling Painting with a sundial

1998-02-13 Thread LJ Coletti
Sam Muller wrote: > > I'm curious too to know now where there might be other > famous paintings that feature sundials. > An interesting point of focus for the Sundial in Art might also include Rosetti's Beata Beatrix (1863). Although Rosetti's image may include more foder for specu

Re: A Puzzling Painting with a sundial

1998-02-13 Thread John Pickard
Sam, I love mysteries like this. They are what make research such fun! There have been several papers in either Bulletin of the British Sundial Society OR Bulletin of the Scientific Society with analyses of sundials and other instruments in paintings. Is there any chance of asking the UM Mus

Re: A Puzzling Painting with a sundial

1998-02-13 Thread Paul Murphy
> > > ... I'm curious too to know now where there might be other famous > > paintings that feature sundials. > > > I know of two paintings by Holbein and one engraving by Duerer that > contain sundials: > > > Artwork Artist DateLocation > > "Melencolia I"

Re: A Puzzling Painting with a sundial

1998-02-12 Thread Mark Gingrich
Sam Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ... I'm curious too to know now where there might be other famous > paintings that feature sundials. I know of two paintings by Holbein and one engraving by Duerer that contain sundials: Artwork Artist DateLocation "M

A Puzzling Painting with a sundial

1998-02-12 Thread Sam Muller
A painting I saw recently in the University of Michigan Museum of Art that had a sundial in it puzzled me a great deal, and I still have a question about it. The painting is called the Illness and Cure of Hezekiah by B. Flemalle. I started out knowing little about it, but have learned this much.