Images Dated 19th September 2005

Wheatfield with Crows, (detail) 1890. Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Wheatfield with Crows, (detail) 1890. In Auvers, Van Gogh painted a large number of landscapes with wheatfields, all on unusual, elongated canvases (50 x 100 cm). He wrote to Theo about two of these works: They depict vast, distended wheatfields under angry skies, and I deliberately tried to express sadness and extreme loneliness in them. But these pictures also had a positive side: I am almost certain that these canvases illustrate what I cannot express in words, that is, how healthy and reassuring I find the countryside. Painted in the last weeks of his life. From the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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The Madonna of Canon van der Paele, 1436. Artist: Jan van Eyck

The Madonna of Canon van der Paele, 1436. Canon van der Paele is shown in the choir of the collegiate church of St. Donatian in Bruges, where he is being presented to the Virgin by St George and St Donatian

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Allegory of the Faith, c1670. Artist: Jan Vermeer

Allegory of the Faith, c1670. Vermeer's source derives from a standard handbook of iconography, Cesare Ripa's Iconologia. Vermeer interpreted Ripa's description of Faith with the world at her feet literally, showing a Dutch globe published in 1618. The divine world is rendered as a glass sphere reflecting the room. The painting of the Crucifixion on the wall copies a work by Jacob Jordaens. Among the many Christological symbols, the most prominent are the apple, emblem of the first sin, and the serpent (Satan) crushed by a stone (Christ, the cornerstone of the Church). Dating about 1670, the work strikes a balance between abstraction and haunting similitude. From the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A

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