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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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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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#MatthiasGrünewald | #MatthiasGruenewald | #MathisGothartNithart | #IsenheimAltarpiece (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isenhei...) | #Diable | #MuséeUnterlinden | #RetableIssenheim | #Issenheim | #Colmar
"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
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Trooboo Roy
Trooboo 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 #ubuesque Ubu Imperator, Ubu Roi, Trubu Roy, Trubu Roi, Trubu Imperator, Donald Trump, Maga, America First, Keep America Great, stable genius, No Kings, ubuesque
October 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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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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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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I am not the first one who spotted that face. Gustave Doré was inspired by that monstrous head already in 1863.
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
September 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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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). Don Quixote | DonQuixote | Don Quijote | DonQuijote | Don Quichote | DonQuichote | GustaveDoré | Issenheim | demons | monsters | hiddenface | hidden face| hiddenimage | hidden image | pareidolia | blur | blurring
August 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I am not the first one who discovered that monstrous head.
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 | blur
August 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
munterlinden.bsky.social
I see. 😉

I think that the 16th century painter (Matthias Grünewald) of the image on the right side intentionally created a structure (composed of little monsters annoying poor St. Anthony) which could be perceived (e.g. by Gustave Doré) as a big face.

snrk.de/how-gustave-...
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
June 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The big face which my pareidolia lets me see in the left image is different from the big face which I see in the right (negated) image. The faces also take different positions within the images.
In the image you see two renderings of a segment from "The Temptation of St. Anthony" (c. 1512-1516) by Matthias Grünewald (Mathis Gothardt Neithardt), painting in a panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece, now located at the Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France). The image on the right side is the negated image on the left side.
June 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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With ALT text.
I think we have to be very careful with such minimally modified objects not to project interpretations (as has happened before with a claimed face made from a bone splinter in a piece of flint from Roche-Cotard). In the current case what the team infer to be a representation of a nose on a face might, if turned the other way up, be seen as a navel on a human figure. We can't really say what it is meant to 'be'. That's not to say Neanderthals weren't interested in faces or images of faces (l'd be amazed if not, since our closest ape relations are), but I don't think it's demonstrated obviously that this stone was intended to be a face. What we have in actuality is a red dot placed centrally on an unusually large stone. It might have been made alone, or in a group, intended to be seen by others or not. That might not sound so exciting, but this artefact is still extremely important in understanding the ways Neanderthals were interested in altering surfaces, as part of their intense appreciation of materials: what I prefer to call "technaesthetics". , rather than art. This is a unique object in the wider archaeological context, but it still fits well with what we see elsewhere - applying colour to surfaces, and attempting to create a regularised impression in the placement of modifications (eg engaged lines on a hyaena bone from Les Pradelles). And like other cases, it's also a unique object within that site - there's only one, rather than a local tradition of similar creations, which is what you find more with early Homo sapiens.
May 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Gustave Doré didn't talk about Matthias Grünewald's play with pareidolia. But Doré found a way to show that he discovered the hidden devil in Grünewald's painting.
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 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Artists know how to use their own pareidolia.
https://snrk.de/#kitty
May 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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"The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" by Richard Dadd (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...), c. 1855
"The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" by Richard Dadd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dadd), c. 1855 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke.jpg
May 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Everything can be something else if you know how to draw it. And you know.
Source: https://justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2018/02/schtummschnark.html
May 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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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
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
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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"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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2025-05-31, 11:00, Visite du Retable d'Issenheim
Place Unterlinden, 68000 Colmar, France

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May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Image source: artuk.org/discover/sto...
Image source: https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-matters-podcast-the-simpsons-art-and-capturing-20th-century-america
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Gustave Doré's illustration is interesting.
Pareidolia | Skull | Don Quixote | Gustave Doré | Temptation of Don Quichote
May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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My apologies for a snarky answer:
https://snrk.de/starry-map/ Accidental or intentional?
April 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Sometimes I use Inkscape (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape) for vectorizing images without any AI. Besides being (according to @mahendra.bsky.social) a tool for lazy illustrators, it is a quite helpful tool to present low pass filtered (blurred) images: Show less to see more.
https://bsky.app/profile/lucfrancoeur.bsky.social/post/3liotnz6oss25
April 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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