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※ Allusions by Gustave Doré and Henry Holiday to two paintings in the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald. ※ Playing with pareidolia. @goetzkluge.bsky.social (This account is not affiliated with the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar.)

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Feb 6

Isenheim Altarpiece, Inner wings opened, c. 1512-1516,
by Matthias Grünewald (Mathis Gothardt Neithardt)

Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France

Source: webmuseo.com/ws/musee-unt...

=== Saint Augustine and Guy Guers, Saint Anthony, Two Bearers of Offerings, Saint Jerome, Christ and the Twelve Apostles ===
With its inner wings open, the Altarpiece allowed pilgrims and the afflicted to venerate Saint Anthony, protector and healer of Saint Anthony’s fire. Saint Anthony occupies the place of honour at the centre of the corpus and at his side a pig is depicted, the emblem of the Antonite order. On his left and right, two bearers of offerings illustrate these contributions in kind, an important source of income for the Antonites. This central section is framed by Saint Augustine and Saint Jerome, two of the four great fathers of the Latin Church. Guy Guyers, who had commissioned the Altarpiece, is depicted kneeling at the feet of Saint Augustine.

=== Visit of Saint Anthony to Saint Paul the Hermit ===
The two hermits meet in a stunning landscape, intended to represent the Theban Desert. Grünewald created a fantastic universe, surrounding the date palm with a strange mixture of vegetation, in marked contrast with the calmness and tranquillity of the encounter, in which the animals in attendance take part, with the crow bringing two morsels of bread to the two recluses. In this dreamlike scene, medicinal plants, painted in naturalistic fashion, sprout at the feet of the two main figures.

=== Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons ===
This panel depicts Saint Anthony being tormented by monstrous creatures sent by Satan. Trampled to the ground, beaten with sticks, torn by claws and bitten, Saint Anthony appeals to God for help who sends angels to combat these evil demons. In the lower left corner, the being with webbed feet and a distended belly seems to personify the disease caused by ergot poisoning, resulting in swelling and ulcerous growths.

Source: https://webmuseo.com/ws/musee-unterlinden/app/collection/expo/22?lang=en

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Caffeine 🇺🇦 @caffeine.fellas.army · 10d

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Smigman @smigman.bsky.social · 10d

Hitler initiated a significant renovation project to expand the Reich Chancellery, with architect Albert Speer in charge of the design and construction. Adding a new wing to the existing building, a large hall designed for official receptions, the Festival Hall, often referred to as a ballroom.

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 8d

... in the Crab Palace (former White House).

#fiddlercrab #fiddlercrap #CrabHouse #CrabPalace #Crapalace #Crappalace

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Götz Kluge @goetzkluge.bsky.social · 8d

From a post (not on BlueSky) by @herotimeszero.bsky.social on Oct 23, 2025.

Keys: White House | WhiteHouse | east wing | EastWing | BallRoom

Source: https://www.wissenschaft-aktuell.de/artikel/Mehr_Schein_als_Sein__Winkerkrabben_bluffen_mit_Schere_in_Billigbauweise1771015585514.html

Photo by Tanya Detto

Keys: fiddler crab | Uca mjoeberg | FiddlerCrab | UcaMjoeberg

Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 8d

Trump's Epstein Ballroom in the Crab House

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#fiddlercrab #fiddlercrap #CrabHouse

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Aug 31

I am not the first one who discovered that monstrous face. Gustave Doré saw it much earlier.

https://snrk.de/how-gustave-dore-might-have-played-with-pareidolia/#head

In 2019 I incidentally discovered (https://snrk.de/page_face-it/) a hidden monstrous head (a devil?) in the painting "The Temptation of St. Anthony" (c. 1512-1516) by Matthias Grünewald (Mathis Gothardt Neithardt). The painting is in a panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece, now located at the Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France.

Later I found out that I was not the first one who spotted that head (https://snrk.de/how-gustave-dore-might-have-played-with-pareidolia/#head). Gustave Doré was faster (1863).

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 12d

"The Temptation of St. Anthony" or "Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons" (1512–1516) by Matthias Grünewald (aka Mathis Gothart Nithart), with an area on the right side having been desaturated and blurred.

Matthias Grünewald | Matthias Gruenewald | Mathis Gothart Nithart | Isenheim Altarpiece (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isenheim_Altarpiece) | Musée Unterlinden | retable | Issenheim | Colmar

Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 14d

#ubuesque #NoKings

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Trubu Roy (with apologies to Max Ernst)

#NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOctober18th

Trubu Roy (with apologies to Max Ernst)

Original: ‪Max Ernst's "Ubu Imperator" (1923)

4000 x 5000:
https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TrubuRoy.jpg
https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TrubuRoyNoKings.jpg

#MaxErnst #TrubuRoy #Ubuimperator #DonaldTrump #Trubuimperator #Collage #Assemblage, #CollageArt #Assemblage #Spinning #Spinner #Whirlgig #SpinningTop #WhippingTop #Rotating #Imperator #AmericaFirst #Appropriation #AppropriationArt #potus #KeepAmericaGreat #AmericanEmperor #Tragicomedy #MAGA #NoKings

Ubu Imperator, Trubu Imperator, Donald Trump, Maga, America First, Keep America Great, stable genius, No Kings

Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

#memo2myself: www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/f....

English Translation of “UBUESQUE” | Collins French-English Dictionary

English Translation of “UBUESQUE” | The official Collins French-English Dictionary online. Over 100,000 English translations of French words and phrases.

www.collinsdictionary.com

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Trubu Roy (with apologies to Max Ernst)

#NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOctober18th

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Should I better call it “Trooboo Roy”? (He’s not the friendly ghost True Boo.)

How about “Trübü Rwa”?

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Should I better call it “Trooboo Roy”? (He’s not the friendly ghost True Boo.)

How about “Trübü Rwa”?

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Trooboo Roy

Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Oui.

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Trubu Roy (with apologies to Max Ernst)

#NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOctober18th

Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Trubu Roy (with apologies to Max Ernst)

#NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOctober18th

Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 15d

Trubu Roy (with apologies to Max Ernst)

#NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOctober18th

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · Aug 30

nothing like a saturday of labor day weekend newsdump, but no time like the present: I wrote a book, and it’s available for pre-purchase! linktr.ee/artbutmakeit...

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 26d

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Apr 1

"Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, great plains, valleys and hills, in various ways. Also you can see various battles, and lively postures of strange figures, expressions on faces, costumes and an infinite number of things, which you can reduce to good integrated form. This happens on such walls and varicoloured stones, (which act) like the sound of bells, in whose peeling you can find every name and word that you can imagine.
Do not despise my opinion, when I remind you that it should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or the ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas. The mind of the painter is stimulated to new discoveries, the composition of battles of animals and men, various compositions of landscapes and monstrous things, such as devils and similar things, which may bring you honor, because by indistinct things the mind is stimulated to new inventions."

Leonardo da Vinci

Reprinted from the Oxford edition of Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, edited by Irma A. Richter. The selections are from da Vinci’s A Treatise on Painting (Trattato della pittura).

Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · 26d

You selected an interesting segment of one of Grünewalds paintings.

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Götz Kluge @goetzkluge.bsky.social · Sep 27

Quite some time ago I offered my @munterlinden.bsky.social account to the Musée Unterlinden. "munterlinden" is their name on that toXic platform where Musk manipulates the reach of free speech.

But the museum didn't respond. Therefore I decided to keep my "munterlinden" account for myself.

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Sep 27

Am besten sieht man den Teufelskopf aus der Ferne oder (wie es mir passierte) in einem digitalisierten Bild mit niedriger Auflösung.

Dem Musée Unterlinden scheint mein Hinweis zu gefallen. (Inzwischen benutze ich Twitter/X kaum noch.)
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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Feb 7

Sometimes you need to see less to see more.

Source: https://snrk.de/blur/

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Sep 27

Gustave Doré hatte in einem der Gemälde von Matthias Grünewald einen Teufelskopf gesehen und in eine seiner illustrationen eingebaut. Ich entdeckte diesen Teufel später im Internet und will ihn mir auch einmal vor Ort ansehen. Gibt es in der Nähe ein gemütliches Hotel?

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Feb 1

In 2019 I incidentally discovered (https://snrk.de/page_face-it/) a hidden monstrous head (a devil?) in the painting "The Temptation of St. Anthony" (c. 1512-1516) by Matthias Grünewald (Mathis Gothardt Neithardt). The painting is in a panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece, now located at the Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France.

Later I found out that I was not the first one who spotted that head (https://snrk.de/how-gustave-dore-might-have-played-with-pareidolia/#head). Gustave Doré was faster (1863).

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Sep 20

Elle a accepté une offre d'emploi intéressante à Paris. C'était une décision personnelle.

Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Sep 20

www.dna.fr/culture-lois...

Colmar. Musée Unterlinden : la directrice Camille Broucke est partie

Deux ans seulement après son arrivée, on apprend que Camille Broucke a quitté son poste de directrice et conservatrice en chef du musée ...

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Unterlinden @munterlinden.bsky.social · Sep 18

Le retable : mode d'emploi - Das Retabel : Bedienungsanleitung
Musée Unterlinden

(User manual for an altar piece)

youtu.be/Ff4Po1QPBoc

https://youtu.be/Ff4Po1QPBoc

Le retable : mode d'emploi - Das Retabel : Bedienungsanleitung
Musée Unterlinden

Feb 8, 2025
Le terme « retable » désigne une œuvre peinte et/ou sculptée qui se dresse sur l’autel ou à l’arrière de celui-ci (retro tabula). Son décor est composé de figures saintes et de scènes religieuses.

Qu’est-ce qu’un retable ? Comment était-il utilisé ? Comment fonctionnait-il ? À quoi servait-il ?
Retrouvez toutes les réponses à ces questions dans cette vidéo "Le retable : mode d'emploi".

Durée : 4'12 min
Production : Escalenta
Version française et allemande
© Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, 2024
Photo : Christian Kempf / Le Réverbère, Mulhouse