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Van Gogh May Have Hidden 'The Last Supper' Within One Of His Most Famous Paintin

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« on: March 09, 2015, 12:09:45 am »

UCLA professor Debora Silverman wrote in Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art that “van Gogh’s art had evolved by 1888 into a symbolist project that can be called ‘sacred realism,’ a project of divinity made concrete and discovering the infinite in weighted tangibility."

Van Gogh's "La Berceuse," of a woman sitting in a chair, could also be interpreted as a Madonna, considering the painting's original placement between two of the artist's famous sunflower depictions. In a letter to his brother, van Gogh explained the collective works as "a sort of triptych." Author of multiple books on van Gogh, Evert van Uitert has further written, in Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, that "the image created is that of an altarpiece in which Madame Roulin takes on the role of the Virgin Mary as Stella Maris and... the sunflowers can be associated with Christ."


So, there may be precedent for religious symbolism finding its way into van Gogh's work over time.
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