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Lara Broecke
France
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- Group shows participant
- International Exposure
- Solo shows participant
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Artwork details
- Medium : Tempera, Gilding on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 19.7x6.7in
About this artwork
This framed, egg tempera painting revisits the theme of the fall of man and the descent into Hell. A knot of contorted figures is cast downwards by a flash of heavenly light, represented in gold leaf. As the figures fall through an ultramarine blue sky, they are met by various creatures - a bee, a weevil and a grub - who guide them into the mouth of a huge, purple, fish-like monster, whose eyes roll as it gobbles down more bodies.
The composition… and subject are inspired by historical images of the last judgement and the entrance to Hell, such as Rodin's Gates of Hell, Michelangelo's Last Judgement in the Vatican and Giovanni da Modena's Heaven and Hell fresco in Bologna.
The painting has been made using pigments hand ground in egg yolk and water gilding onto red bole. The support is wood, prepared with a gesso ground.
The painting is in a fixed frame (included in the dimensions given) and has a picture cord attached at the back, so that it is ready to hang.
The composition… and subject are inspired by historical images of the last judgement and the entrance to Hell, such as Rodin's Gates of Hell, Michelangelo's Last Judgement in the Vatican and Giovanni da Modena's Heaven and Hell fresco in Bologna.
The painting has been made using pigments hand ground in egg yolk and water gilding onto red bole. The support is wood, prepared with a gesso ground.
The painting is in a fixed frame (included in the dimensions given) and has a picture cord attached at the back, so that it is ready to hang.
Lara Broecke
France
Credentials
- Group shows participant
- International Exposure
- Solo shows participant
« I seek to rekindle in contemporary viewers a sense of wonder, awe and tenderness in relation to the world around them. »
Lara Broecke's passion for early Italian art was born while living in Florence. She currently lives in France and paints using early Italian techniques - gold leaf and egg tempera paint, made by hand-grinding pigments in egg yolk, on wooden panels coated with gesso. She marries a medieval sensibility with contemporary compositions, creates rich representations of the natural world and man's relationship to it.
