If the portrait of Madeleine of France is a delicate token, love’s portraits got even more tiny and intense in Tudor England.
There are no crass characterisations, conclusions or rushed judgments here – rather a gentle interrogation of these ghosts. The lives of these people are shadows in time, whispers from a lost world. But its real, more tantalising theme is the emotional lives those portraits may reveal. Painted Love offers itself as a simple survey of how portraiture was used in Renaissance Europe to advertise potential mates and celebrate marriages. Photograph: © The National Gallery, London Portrait of a Lady by Alesso Baldovinetti, c 1426–1499. She died just a couple of months after he got her home to Edinburgh. In spite of that, and against the rules of arranged marriage, James V of Scotland seems to have fallen for her sincerely, severing his previous engagement and getting wed in Notre-Dame. A tiny painting by Corneille de Lyon depicts Madeleine, fifth child of Francis I of France: such paintings of young women were adverts to attract princely husbands, but the artist is honest enough to show Madeleine as frail and unhealthy. The higher up you went in the sociopolitical stratosphere, the more hung on who you got hitched to. He and Sybilla could afford to join the European elite captured in this show, which spans the rulers and super-rich of a continent and follows their marital intrigues. Jacob was a rich Fugger, the head of Germany’s leading commercial family. A possessive gesture or a tender one? Burgkmair leaves us to guess. How much can you read in their faces, their touching hands? In Hans Burgkmair the Elder’s Marriage Portrait of Jakob Fugger and Sybilla Arzt, painted in 1498, this Augsburg banker and his wife stand with pinched formality, but he puts a hand round her arm. and retribution.L ove, death, marriage and power haunt the single, darkened room where this exhibition invites you to contemplate people who lived half a thousand years ago.
But when the badly burned and mentally broken Carlton Hendricks is taken from a state run mental hospital and off his medication by billionaire, media mogul, Morgan LaForce, leader of the body modification/fetish haven called "The Torture Garden", the door swings wide open for each of Captain Howdy's victims to find closure. Their lives, destroyed by emotional torment and the media frenzy surrounding the crimes, Detective Mike Gage, his daughter Geneveve and vigilante Jackson Roth (Robert Englund) each have their crosses to bear. "One year after Carleton Hendricks aka Captain Howdy's (Dee Snider) sadistic rampage, much more than the physical scars the schizophrenic, sexual sadist gave his victims are left behind. Ok so last week we let yall know that Dee Snider's Strangeland 2: Disciple is happening this year and it seems to be full speed ahead too as today we have found out that lensing on the Captain Howdy sequel starts on May 21st in Louisiana and also that Robert Englund will be joining in on the sequel fun reprising his role as Jackson Roth! How awesome is this! There are a lot of us that have been waiting a longtime on this long and much delayed sequel! As more news drops we'll have it for yall but for now enjoy the synopsis below!
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