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Pars Ergo Marthae Transit: Pieter Aertsen's 'Inverted' Paintings of Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

Pars Ergo Marthae Transit: Pieter Aertsen's 'Inverted' Paintings of Christ in the House of Martha... 25 KENNETH M. CRAIG Pars Ergo Marthae Transit: Pieter Aertsen's 'Inverted' Paintings of Christ in the House of Martha and Mary* Food for the belly and the belly for food, but God will destroy both the one and the other. I Cor. 6: 13 Two paintings by Pictcr Aertscn of Christ in tie House o f Martha and Mary arc among the very first 'inverted' still lifes in the history of art (Figs. 1 and 2). In these two pictures, images of food - fruits, vegetables, and meats - arc combined with the biblical story in a very unusual manncr. The still lifcs, painted with the most remarkable fidelity to nature and possessing extraordinary tactile quali- ties, nearly fill the foregrounds while the biblical subject appears far off in the backgrounds of the panels. This relationship of a sumptuous still life visually and physically overwhelming a small sacrcd scene has been called, for want of a bct- tcr terrn, 'the Mannerist Inversion.' Picter Acrtscn was the first artist to paint still-life pictures of this kind beginning with The Meat Stall of 1551. His two early renditions of Christ irt the Hov.l?e of'Martli,i and Mary, dated 1552 and 1553, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oud Holland - Quarterly for Dutch Art History Brill

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Brill
Copyright
© 1983 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0030-672x
eISSN
1875-0176
DOI
10.1163/187501783X00118
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Abstract

25 KENNETH M. CRAIG Pars Ergo Marthae Transit: Pieter Aertsen's 'Inverted' Paintings of Christ in the House of Martha and Mary* Food for the belly and the belly for food, but God will destroy both the one and the other. I Cor. 6: 13 Two paintings by Pictcr Aertscn of Christ in tie House o f Martha and Mary arc among the very first 'inverted' still lifes in the history of art (Figs. 1 and 2). In these two pictures, images of food - fruits, vegetables, and meats - arc combined with the biblical story in a very unusual manncr. The still lifcs, painted with the most remarkable fidelity to nature and possessing extraordinary tactile quali- ties, nearly fill the foregrounds while the biblical subject appears far off in the backgrounds of the panels. This relationship of a sumptuous still life visually and physically overwhelming a small sacrcd scene has been called, for want of a bct- tcr terrn, 'the Mannerist Inversion.' Picter Acrtscn was the first artist to paint still-life pictures of this kind beginning with The Meat Stall of 1551. His two early renditions of Christ irt the Hov.l?e of'Martli,i and Mary, dated 1552 and 1553,

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Oud Holland - Quarterly for Dutch Art HistoryBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1983

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