FAST CLASS
A few of my favorite things
Jonathan Canning, Martin D’Arcy Curator of Art for LUMA, discusses the five D’Arcy collection pieces that are closest to his heart
Christ Among the Doctors
Ecce Homo
ca. 1600 • Spanish • Wood, polychromy, and estofado gilding • Gift of Mrs. Janet Relos, 1981-16
one in Indianapolis, and the other in Washington DC, on Spanish 17th-century art. They have made me reconsider this brutally real depiction of the scourged and beaten Christ. His skin has been painted to reveal bruising and welts beneath the skin, while small, red glass beads have been set into the sculpture’s open wounds to suggest flowing blood. This degree of realism was intended to invoke a deep and heartfelt response in the faithful.
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here have been two exhibitions this year,
ca. 1630 • Matthias Stom or Stomer • Dutch • Oil on canvas • Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Stamm, 1983-06
by Matthias Stomer, a Dutch follower of the Italian painter Caravaggio. The degree of naturalism suggested by the dirty sole and wrinkled hoses makes viewers feel that they have come across the scene, recorded in the Gospel, in which Christ disputed the Scriptures with learned men at the Temple. Viewers take on the roles of Mary and Joseph, frantically seeking the son they thought they had lost, only to find Him, as here, calmly enumerating his points. Notice how Stomer contrasts Christ’s youthfulness with the wrinkled, furrowed brows of the older men, who, no matter how strenuously they try, cannot refute Him.
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less visceral form of realism is found in this work
Corporal Box
ca. 1540 • Flemish • Gold, silver, and colored silk threads on velvet • Museum Purchase, 2009-01
art. They can suffer from light, humidity, and usage, yet this embroidered box looks remarkably fresh for something that is almost five hundred years old. It once contained the plain linen cloth, the corporal, upon which sat the chalice and paten during the Mass. Lidded boxes for the corporal were used only in the Renaissance; the Catholic Church reverted to the medieval burse, a three-sided slipcover, during the 16th- century Counter-Reformation.
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extiles are particularly delicate works of
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