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Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx is an oil on wood painting by the Flemish Northern Renaissance artist Joachim Patinir. Dating to c. 1515–1524, it is now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. Landscape with Charon Crossing Styx fits into common Northern Renaissance and early Mannerist trends of art.
Geological inspiration: detail from Patinir's St Jerome (National Gallery), juxtaposed with photographs of the dramatic rock pinnacles of Dinant Innovative World landscape: Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, oil on panel, 64 × 103cm Prado, Madrid. Patinir often let his landscapes dwarf his figures, which are of very variable quality.
Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx; Landscape with Sea and Mountains; Landscape with Skaters; Life in the Countryside; M. Marriage of the Virgin (Campin)
Joachim Patinir (1480–1524), Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, 1515–1524.Patinir pioneered the "world landscape" style.Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (German, 1842–1921), View of Lærdalsøyri, on the Sognefjord, 1901 Dong Yuan (934–962) Dongtian Mountain Hall (Chinese: 洞天山堂圖). 10th century, the Five Dynasties (Chinese).
Depiction of Charon crossing the river Styx with the deceased after they paid the cost of the crossing. Die Gartenlaube (1886) Coins for the dead is a form of respect for the dead or bereavement. The practice began in classical antiquity when people believed the dead needed coins to pay a ferryman to cross the river Styx.
Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, Joachim Patinir, c. 1515–1524, Prado. With other vertical features, these are painted as though seen straight on even when in the lower parts of the landscape, and thus "reassert the integrity of the picture plane" in his works, against the sprawling horizontal impetus of the main landscape. [9]
After a 20-minute break, Styx played a rousing 80-minute set to close the night before a crowd I would unofficially estimate at 15,000. Highlights included “Come Sail Away,” “Blue Collar Man ...
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