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20th February 2021, 12:34 AM | #1 | |
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These paitings are envolved in strange facts, have you seen any order of christ cross in the painting ? how can a meeting envolving navigators do not have any kind of item related to the most important order ? i have seen many flaws in ours history books! so many! But the swords are very detailed, the only other portuguese painting (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...es_s.paulo.jpg) that i know with similar details is the one that is suposed to be of the same painter. |
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20th February 2021, 02:21 AM | #2 |
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All very interesting. If I may interrupt the discussion, in the original post the question concerning four swords is asked. I seem to have missed something, what art work are these from? At least for my own research I would like to know myself and look further on details of the painting (s)? that might suggest the identities of the subjects.
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Rediscovered in 1883, only after having been restored in 1910, was exhibited to the public. It was then that the (double) central figure in the panels was identified and related with the old altarpiece of the Saint Vincent chapel in the Lisbon head cathedral, a work dated circa 1470. Saint Vincent (IV century), here dressed with the outfit of a deacon, is profoundly connected with the history of the nation; became patron of the discoveries and also of Lisbon. His tumb was restored circa 1470, which appoints for the panels to be made for such altar. As for the purpose and identification of the 58+2 persons in the work, there are no less than fourty (educated) interpretations; and still none was so far elected as the exact one. |
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" In reality only one personality is unanimously identified in the panels, Henri the Navigator; and even that is not 100% granted for some " I thought i would not further expand in the two hypothesis (Zurara versus Markl) as not to be boring for the audience. Quote:
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20th February 2021, 03:42 PM | #5 |
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Thank you Fernando.
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