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※ Allusions by Gustave Doré and Henry Holiday to two paintings in the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald.
※ Playing with pareidolia.
※ Playing with art.

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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 Issenheim | muséeunterlinden | Colmar
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Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains, Picador/Pan, 1972. Cover: The Temptation of St. Anthony by Matthias Grünewald. #AngelaCarter #heroes #villains #Picador #Pan #MatthiasGrünewald
October 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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@picadorbooks.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_...

#AngelaCarter #Picador #PicadorBooks #HeroesAndVillains #MatthiasGrünewald #MuseéUnterlinden #IsenheimAltarpiece

The #devil is in the details.
See also: snrk.de/page_face-it/

In this post I modified the original cover illustration.
Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains, Picador/Pan, 1972. In this post I modified the original cover, "The Temptation of St. Anthony" by Matthias Grünewald. See also: https://snrk.de/page_face-it/
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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munterlinden.bsky.social
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
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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munterlinden.bsky.social
Should I better call it “Trooboo Roy”? (He’s not the friendly ghost True Boo.)

How about “Trübü Rwa”?
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
munterlinden.bsky.social
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
September 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Henry Holiday saw a #kitten in the painting when illustrating Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark
#MUnterlinden

Regrettably, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar has no BlueSky account yet. On another account they reposted my comparison.

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See also https://snrk.de/page_kitty/ and https://snrk.de/wimmelbild/#MatthiasGruenewald
November 8, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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snarkhunt.bsky.social
#WorldCatDay #InternationalCatDay #CatDay #Kittens

Details from a painting by Matthias Grünewald and from an illustration by Henry Holiday to "The Hunting of the Snark", who saw a Kitten in Grünewalds painting.

To artists paredolia is a tool.
https://snrk.de/#kitty [top]: Matthias Grünewald: 'Visit of Saint Anthony to Saint Paul', retinex filtered, vectorized and color desaturated detail from one of the panels of the Isenheim altarpiece (1512–1516). [bottom]: Henry Holiday: from an illustration to the chapter "The Beaver’s Lesson" in Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark".
August 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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munterlinden.bsky.social
https://snrk.de/#Steinberg All art is infested by other art. Leo Steinberg (1920–2011) , in Art about Art, 1979
March 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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munterlinden.bsky.social
"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. MatthiasGrünewald | MatthiasGruenewald | MathisGothartNithart | IsenheimAltarpiece (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isenheim_Altarpiece) | MuséeUnterlinden
May 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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munterlinden.bsky.social
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). Don Quixote | DonQuixote | Don Quijote | DonQuijote | Don Quichote | DonQuichote | GustaveDoré | Issenheim | demons | monsters | hiddenface | hidden face| hiddenimage | hidden image | pareidolia | blur | blurring
February 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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munterlinden.bsky.social
Those two images make a good couple.
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). Don Quixote | DonQuixote | Don Quijote | DonQuijote | Don Quichote | DonQuichote | GustaveDoré | Issenheim | demons | monsters | hiddenface | hidden face| hiddenimage | hidden image | pareidolia | blur | blurring
May 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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munterlinden.bsky.social
How about seeing skulls?
Pareidolia | Skull | Gustave Doré | Temptation of Don Quichote
May 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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May 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This Pebble could represent one of the oldest known abstractions of a human face in the prehistoric record.

#RockinTuesday
#pareidolia
#archaeology
World’s oldest fingerprint may be a clue that Neanderthals created art
A man 43,000 years ago dipped a finger in red pigment and made a nose on a face-like pebble in Spain, scientists say
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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davidhendy.bsky.social
‘Pareidolia may have been the mechanism through which figurative representation emerged’
Why did our ancestors make startling art in dark, firelit caves? | Aeon Essays
New research transports us back to the shadowy firelight of ancient caves, imagining the minds and feelings of the artists
aeon.co
May 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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"The art of deniability" (@mahendra.bsky.social)

When Henry Holiday illustrated Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), his playing with the pareidolia of the beholders of his illustrations allows him to hold them responsible for the things (especially the long ones) which they "see".
"Ceci n'est pas un cigar." (https://snrk.de/page_this-is-no-cigar) Detail from Henry Holiday's illustration to the last fit (chapter) of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" showing a simulacrum about which, as far as I know, until now no AI based image content checker complained. And here I mean the simulacrum on the lower left side of the illustration and not the "torso-like simulacrum" (see https://snrk.de/page_this-is-no-cigar/#Tufail) on the lower right side. Holiday's dark illustration (https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#561) to the 8th fit of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" is quite challenging. He found a way to hold the beholders of his illustrations responsible for what they "see". Holiday migth have gotten some ideas from his teacher John Everett Millais (https://snrk.de/page_lorenzo-and-isabella/).
May 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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ska7rhythm.bsky.social
As a painter, it’s been said, once Pareidolia detects an unintended face in the painting you’re doomed LOL.
May 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
munterlinden.bsky.social
2025-05-31, 11:00, Visite du Retable d'Issenheim
Place Unterlinden, 68000 Colmar, France

www.facebook.com/events/94888...
May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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snark150.bsky.social
How about adding "The Hunting of the Snark" to the reading&viewing list? I think that Henry Holiday's illustrations (snrk.de) are as important as Lewis Carroll's text (snrk.de/snarkhunt).
https://snrk.de/#kitty
May 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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https://snrk.de/#Arnheim "We have neglected the gift of comprehending things through our senses. Concept is divorced from percept, and thought moves among abstractions. Our eyes have been reduced to instruments with which to identify and to measure; hence we suffer a paucity of ideas that can be expressed in images and an incapacity to discover meaning in what we see. Naturally we feel lost in the presence of objects that make sense only to undiluted vision, and we seek refuge in the more familiar medium of words. […] The inborn capacity to understand through the eyes has been put to sleep and must be reawakened." Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007): Art and Visual Perception, 1974, p. 1
March 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"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).
April 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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munterlinden.bsky.social
From Jay Clouse, @jay.blog, "What Salvador Dali taught me about creative work", 2017

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※ Left: "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea" by Salvador Dalí. ※ Right: Same image viewed after blurring or looking at it from a distance of 20 meters I order to recognize the portrait of Abraham Lincoln. From Jay Clouse, @jay.blog (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j4qhffmuzbw7bk76p7fbe42z), "What Salvador Dali taught me about creative work" (https://web.archive.org/web/20200918064223/https://jayclouse.com/what-salvador-dali-taught-me-about-creative-work/), 2017 "[...] In 1976, Dali read a piece in Scientific American which claimed that the human eye could recognize an image with the minimum resolution of 16 x 16 (or 256 pixels). Below is the accompanying example in the magazine, which you will recognize as Abraham Lincoln. Dali, who strikes me as sort of a brilliant jerk, called bullshit and set out to create a painting of lower resolution that could be recognized. His painting, shown below, used only 121 pixels. Dali’s painting, when viewed up close, reveals an image of his wife, Gala, looking out of a window (hence the title, Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln). But when viewed from afar (you guessed it: about 20 meters) you see the full image of Lincoln that Dali intended.For the last couple of days, I’ve struggled to keep the Lincoln view of what I’m working to accomplish. I know that I am painting Lincoln, but all I see is Gala. But the reality is, I’m looking too closely at the work. I’ve got the canvas right up in front of my nose, and all I see is the micro view that makes up the macro view.It’s an easy trap to fall into. When you worry that your work isn’t accomplishing what you set out to do, take a step back (about 20 meters) and take another look. Sometimes you just get too close. [...]"
March 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
munterlinden.bsky.social
Sometimes you need to see less to see more.
Source: https://snrk.de/blur/ Isenheim | Issenheim | Isenheim Altarpiece | IsenheimAltarpiece | Matthias Grünewald | MatthiasGrünewald | Mathis Gothardt Neithardt | MathisGothardtNeithardt | demons | monsters | hiddenface | hidden face| hiddenimage | hidden image | pareidolia | blur | blurring | Musée Unterlinden | MuséeUnterlinden
February 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
munterlinden.bsky.social
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 Issenheim | muséeunterlinden | Colmar
February 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM