Rennes-le-Château

Hi all.

As some of you will know I have been searching for a particular painting for over 5 years. I was the very first to post the image to the internet in about 1999 but it was a cropped black and white version I had obtained from an obscure book of the popes up to Pope John XXIII published in 1959. Since that time I have searched for the full version and wondered if the full colour version existed anywhere. Well over the last little while I have searched obscure websites and finally found a small discoloured colour version. A friend who has followed my progress decided it was time that I, well actually we all had the original to view. He actually gave it as a gft not to me alone but to all the RLC community. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.



Enjoy this amazing painting and as my friend stated:

The 'Celestine' painting is believed - but not proved - to be by Barthélemy van Eyck. He was a nephew of the famous Hubert and Jan van Eyck, who painted the stunning Ghent altarpiece. Hubert and Jan were the Harlem Globetrotters among the painters of their time. Not even the later renaissance artists could match their skill on, for instance, perspective and geometry.

I should think the expertise of this painting is the proof of the above statement. It has always been attributed to "The French School" of the 16th Century but no where could I find anything in French art of the time to match this.

Best Regards
Don Barone

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Beautiful painting, but how does it relate to RLC?

Badger

Not to be contentious, but if the perspective is so skilled, why is the perspective of the throne so obviously not in sync with the rest of the painting? Is there a significance to this?

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Don Barone

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