Hi, this is Lee, and you’re watching Inner Christianity.
And you know, I was getting a video ready for next week, and I came across one of my photographs of Roger van der Weyden’s Crucifixion, which is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
It’s an extraordinary painting, and I just wanted to share it with you personally as a kind of aside to the post that I’m working on right now.
You should go see this painting if you’re on the East Coast. It is one of the world-class best Northern Renaissance paintings, and it’s in Philadelphia.
It’s a big painting.
It’s a spectacular painting.
It’s a showy painting.
And it violates all the rules they had for making paintings like that in that era. It’s quite astonishing, really. He’s basically invented Mark Rothko many centuries before Rothko invented himself. And he’s put these two huge red squares in the background of the painting. Amazing, unusual, stunning, and passionate.
I can’t say too much more about the painting. It speaks for itself, but I wanted to make sure that you got a good look at it, because it speaks in a way that words cannot.
Thanks for watching. Catch you next time.
