TLC The Low Countries 26  -  Dirk Van Assche / Manfred Sellink

Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands

KORTE INHOUD

On 20 January 2017, a mural appeared on Boulevard Barthélémy on the Canal in Brussels, of an imminent beheading. The knife and the fear on the face of a child in the depicted scene raised a furore. People thought of IS executions, and panicked.

Until it transpired that the anonymous street artist responsible had copied a section from a Caravaggio painting, The Sacrifice of Isaac (1603). The hand with the knife belongs to Abraham, a father who is about to murder his son. The hand on Abraham’s arm, holding him...
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2018 Uitgever: Ons Erfdeel 320 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  235x170x23 ISBN-10: 9079705292 ISBN-13: 9789079705290