At the end of his life, Umberto Eco became passionate about the works of the Dutchman Saenredam (1597-1665). He saw in his paintings of church interiors a kind of "materialistic ecstasy" . Reform and reading of Spinoza obliging, in such compositions the suggestion of the divine indeed passes less by the representation of the ritual than by the architecture itself.
The lines of the high vaults and deep naves, the immaculate white walls which magnify natural light unfiltered by colorful and colorful stained glass windows, the rigorous perspectives are enough to inspire meditation. To give the feeling of the greatness and the mystery of the world.
Characters pray, are at baptisms, funerals, spring masses or vespersSaenredam was not collected by Bernard Maillet. Too rare, too expensive. But this amateur whose treasures in Cassel (North) reveals the treasures sought to find out where this modern art came from that one can see it enduring in the abstract structures of a Mondrian or the endless stairs of an Escher. For more
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