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| P162 - Bractéates de 12 cavaliers en furie dans un | | Size (HxW) : | 125x190 cm | | Style : | Figurative Style | | Technic : | Acrylic on canvas | | Theme : | Hunting | | Category : | Painting | | Price : | Euros 11850 | | Year : | 2012 | | Desc. : | / Here we are again in the world of pre-Viking Nordic tribes of the middle fifth of the seventh century straddling the age of migration and that of Vendel. Nothing new under the sun if you have read, failing to have completely memorized the legends of my paintings P153 and P154 which addressed each one bracteate. We are transported into a real wild horde of 12 riders, each from a bracteates, all dating from the period and found in a geographic area that is principally northern Germany, through Denmark, Sweden and Norway. With few exceptions, most were made by different craftsmen, but in a style that I would qualify for both identical and inimitable, if he had not exactly been continuously imitated by other creators unknown us, and this, over a period that did not exceed 150 years! The variety of styles extraordinarily original, forced me to give them a common framework so that there is a semblance of consistency in a table that ends in an uncontrolled inconsistency. Each rider is in flux in a yellow circle that recalls its original circular. And for good reason, since we are witnessing a mad stampede perhaps sponsored by the isolated figure on the far left in his singular bracteate surrounded by runic inscriptions, and this, in a gesture of distress? : Is it his wife or a bride who runs away, and he must bring back dead or alive? Three colors for three different strengths define the unfolding tragedy: red, black and magenta. Elements are present in a woman, thirteen men, five dogs, twelve single birds, three birds included in the caps, an egg in the upper right , a star at the top left and different runic symbols unidentified. Almost in the center of the table the stylized monogram of your artist |
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