Mural

About: Mural is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1144 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5050 citations.

Bartholomeus Spranger and Michiel de Joncquoy in Sant'Oreste

Abstract: The article discusses the sixteenth century Flemish mural painters Bartholomeus Spranger (Antwerp 1546-Prague 1611) and Michiel de Joncquoy, whose works for Italian patrons near Rome, Italy have recently been discovered, identified or analyzed. Some of these works were commissioned to be placed in church structures on the mountain of Sant'Oreste in Italy, particularly at the Church of San Lorenzo. A major biographical source for the life of Spranger and his travels in Italy comes from the writings of the Dutch muralist and painter Karel van Mander.

The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to bring a British mural painting that originated in England in the 1920’s into the limelight and introduce it to the Swedish public. The mural was commissioned by Tate Gallery, currently known as Tate Britain. The work of art was designed for a semi-public space as a decoration in the Refreshment Room of the gallery, located in the basement where there was little natural light. The artist, a young British man named Rex Whistler, was transformed from being a student at an art school into a celebrated professional artist by this piece of art. With the help of Panofsky’s iconological three-step method and by interpretation in a culture-historical and imperial perspective, I will examine how the mural corresponded with the mural tradition taught at the Slade School of Fine Art.

The Cultural Heritage of Architectural Linear Perspective: The Mural Paintings in Nantang Church

Abstract: This paper presents a contextual use of the innovative drawing techniques that involved architecture and painting in the Qing court during the first half of the eighteenth century. At this point architectural linear perspective in painting (quadratura) and stage design had become common fields of experimentation for the Chinese and Jesuit artists missionaries. In this conceptual context, Western quadratura was developed in China by Giovanni Gherardini. (1655–1729), and especially by Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766), who is remembered as an extraordinarily versatile architect–painter. The focus of this paper is on the “illusory mural paintings of architectural perspective in Nantang Church” (Beijing), which has now disappeared, and which spread the influence of the Western Renaissance. The imported Western linear perspective and the fundamentals of architectural drawing facilitated the systematization and dissemination of the quadratura as an unknown technique in China. Based on the text described by the contemporary scholar Yao Yuan Zhi, an original interpretation of the architectural perspective mural paintings in Nantang Church is proposed. These paintings provide an important case study of Sino-European collaboration in the eighteenth century from different points of view: the representation of the light in drawings and the fact that the concept of shadow in some respects was unknown to the Chinese artist.

Hallazgo de una pintura mural temprana en la Huaca Tomabal, valle de Virú, Perú

Abstract: En este breve reporte de campo se presenta un estudio preliminar de la huaca Tomabal (VV 118-4:9) en el valle de Virú, la cual desafortunadamente fue destruida parcialmente con maquinaria pesada por parte de agricultores. Por fortuna, se salvó una superficie ornamentada con su respectiva estratigrafía. En efecto, se da cuenta de la existencia de cinco edificios superpuestos que aparecen en la cara sur del montículo afectado con técnicas constructivas típicas del periodo Arcaico Final y Formativo. Lo más sorprendente es el descubrimiento de una pintura mural con la imagen de un ser antropomorfo que aparentemente sostiene un cuchillo ceremonial en una de sus extremidades. Esta decoración mural temprana es única en el valle de Virú, por lo que merece su atención en futuros trabajos de investigación en el sitio.