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Hieronymus Bosch – The Conjurer, 1502. In HD!
Click on the image to see Hieronymus Bosch’s The Conjurer in High Resolution, with all its amazing details!
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Tu as rêvé de quoi cette nuit ?
Je passais quelques jours chez une amie à Aix-en-Provence et tous les matins sans faute, la tête encore embrumée par le sommeil, elle me posait cette question. Tu as rêvé de quoi ? Comme si les rêves faisaient partie intégrante de notre journée, se présentant comme la continuité des évènements quotidiens. La vie réelle, puis notre seconde vie, secrète, rêvée. On attribue aux rêves une notion de mystère, un monde fabuleux duquel on s’arrache parfois péniblement ou au contraire qui nous réveille en sursaut. Seulement, raconter ses rêves relève parfois de l’exploit : il nous appartient dès que l’on ouvre les yeux, mais parfois un pied hors du lit suffit pour qu’il…
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A Dream Deferred
Dreams are as commonplace as breathing, but as elusive as the air. Although practically everyone dreams on a nightly basis, very few people remember or understand their dreams. Looking at paintings from the Renaissance, it is perceivable that the interpretation of dreams predates Freud. Many paintings portray people currently sleeping, suddenly waking up or being woken up, or dreaming. The current exhibition at the Musee du Luxembourg focuses on the little discussed aspect of sleep and dreams in the art of the Renaissance. Painters such as Veronese and Hieronymus Bosch depicted their subjects’ dreams in several of their paintings. But while Veronese used dreaming as a state to reach religious…
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