A Proposal for Rembrandt's Two Versions of Slaughtered Ox

Rembrandt's Slaughtered Ox in the Louvre and its earlier version in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum has been the subject of various interpretations, ranging from an attempt to relate the pictures to the artist's financial difficulties or to a search for potential literary sources in the...

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Published in:Artibus et historiae 2009-01, Vol.30 (60), p.271-276
Main Author: POSÈQ, AVIGDOR W. G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Allegory
Art exhibitions
Butchering
Meats
Nurses
Psychological stress
Slaughterhouses
Stall
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Summary:Rembrandt's Slaughtered Ox in the Louvre and its earlier version in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum has been the subject of various interpretations, ranging from an attempt to relate the pictures to the artist's financial difficulties or to a search for potential literary sources in the Old and the New Testaments. A careful consideration of the seldom noted female personages which appear in both pictures allows a keener insight of the intense emotional meaning which each of the two paintings had for the master.
ISSN:0391-9064