Throwback Thursdays Art

Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution images of its collection.  All artwork will show a sun (or sunlight) somewhere. 

I won’t name the piece or the artist, but instead invite you to study the art and post a comment addressing one or more of these questions:

  • What is going on in this picture?
  • What do you see that makes you say that?
  • What more can you find?

 If you have another idea, run with it.

 Note:  To embiggen the image, click on it! 

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9 thoughts on “Throwback Thursdays Art”

  1. Humans and animals drinking from the same trough of water. What’s that about? And is that a birdcage or a lamp suspended in the arch? This is a crazy crazy picture.

  2. Astonished that the center of the picture is a dangling square box suspended from the ceiling of the arched doorway and in the light, when the action of the picture is way down at the bottom and is rather in thd dark. A contrast

  3. There’s a statue built into the side of the arch, holding its arms open as if it’s inviting or encouraging everyone to come inside and drink the water. I guess this is a religious picture / scene? I wonder what religious folktale provoked it – miracle, historical fact, etc. Why is it so good for both animals and humans?

  4. I would love to see this painting in a museum. I would love it if it was enormous. The humans as big as real life. I would stare and stare at it and marvel !!!

  5. I like the round hat on the man off in the distance. I see two women carrying things on their heads. Women were scene as beasts of burdens back then.

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