Beyond the Periphery: Art History

 Slaughtered Ox by Rembrandt (1655). Here we have an animal carcass splayed out, the ribs visible. Those exposed ribs evoking an architectual appearance of steps on a marble or wooden spiral staircase. A style consistent with Renaissance Architecture.

Carcass of Beef by Soutine (1925). Here we see the jaring colour boundary of reds and blues. A style reminiscent of church stained glass windows. Where older stained glass images were built from individual colour fragments, later styles would separate the larger colour boundaries, and painting of the subtler variations in the imagery would be applied within that sectional limit.
This staircase of ribs is carpeted in scarlet. Though torn and revealing an older architecture beneath the wreckage of a decedent wealth.



Why bring you here? The idea that there is an older age hidden beneath the modern ruin. In art, in inspiration, in architecture, in civilization. The desperation to connect the current through continuity to ancient. Church and State building on a foundation of marble and wood slit timbers to sunlit stained glass and ending in ruined Scarlett carpets.


For Dungeons and Castles there is a progression from caves, and huts of piled stones through timber and stained glass gothic cathedrals to disused, ruined and abandoned edifices taking up space in crowded cities.