PALETTES:
A series of films devoted to great works in painting history. Thanks to recent developments in video animation technique, secrets of these images are revealed like thrilling adventures of discovery.
RUBENS:
The Glory of the Flesh - At the age of 53, the widower Rubens married Helene Fourment, a 16 year old girl. The two portraits at the Louvre shows her superbly dressed in the full splendour of her opulent flesh. The Little Fur, a portrait in which she holds back the flow of her generous bosom with her arm, offers a good impression of the style of his painter's other nudes. Reason enough for a contemplation of allegories of the flesh in the Baroque Age.
REMBRANDT:
The Mirror of Paradoxes - Self-portraits were made possible because in the period from the 13th to the 15th century glass mirrors became widely used. With Masaccio, Botticelli and Curer as his precursors, Rembrandt brought the genre to full bloom. From the very beginning, he made appearances on his own paintings. In these canvases and panels, it is not merely the history of Rembrandt`s face that can be traced, but also the vast changes that were taking place in humanist Europe.
VERMEER:
The Grain of the Light - In the corner of a room, daylight falls through a panelled windowpane upon the face of a man studying a celestial globe, which charts the constellations and the signs of the zodiac. The fundamental characteristic of Vermeer's oeuvre is the integration of perspective into a photographic vision. It is highly probable that Vermeer had resource to a 'camera obscura', yet his use of this predecessor to the present-day camera is but one aspect of Vermeer's painting which is discussed here.
DVD Info
Region: 0
Running Time: 90 minutes
Release Date: 19/05/03
