Thank you Dr. for spreading your vast knowledge of art history to the people. Everyone who has even a passing interest in art should be watching these. Looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2025. Cheers !
Happy Holidays! I found your channel while curious about art forgery but have stayed for long after. I look forward to every new video and am in constant awe of your depth of knowledge. Your channel deserves to be so much bigger than it is and I feel lucky I found my way here.
Thanks Dr Shafe for another illuminating talk. I am a regular viewer and value and enjoy learning from your expertise. That said, as others have expressed, I am deeply opposed to AI in interpreting creativity, culture, history and humanity, as I feel the LLMs have already done irreparable damage to the accuracy of information and it will only get worse. So please don't relegate your knowledge to the non-human. Happy holidays!
Great video! Probably a silly question, but is there any significance to the numbers shown on the die in the bottom-right corner of the inset at 2:23? It's non-standard as you would not normally be able to see both 2 and 5; I'm not sure whether it's simply that this standard wasn't so universal in Bosch's time or whether the numbers themselves have some meaning.
It is a good question and has been discussed by art historians. No one knows the reason but the opposing sides of a die adding to 7 has been the convention since classical times. I did find a law of Antwerp in 1493, “Rogues who play dice shall be put in the pillory for their first offence and then hung in a basket over water so that they fall in; the second time they shall have one ear nailed to the pillory with iron nails and remain there until they pull it off.” So, as the painting warns about various sins, and gambling was a sin my guess is that Bosch purposefully shows an incorrect dice. A nice idea is that 2, 4 and 5 refer to a passage in the Bible but I can find a relevant passage against gambling.
I'm pretty sure the portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon is actually a depiction of Pope Pius XII, who was pope during the time the Holocaust happened, and was still the pope when Bacon made that picture.
An interesting interpretation. We know Bacon painted a series of works based on Velázquez’s 1650 portrait of Pope Innocent X and they have been interpreted as a critique of power, authority, and human suffering but there is no direct evidence that he intended it to be a portrait of Pope Pius XII or a direct commentary on the Holocaust. Of course, the distorted, screaming figure suggests such an interpretation as its themes of guilt, trauma, and anguish resonate with reflections on World War II and the Holocaust. Pope Pius XII’s controversial role during that period has also fuelled such debates but Bacon never explicitly connected his work to those historical events or figures.
I enjoy your presentations Dr. Shafe. I can only hope that artificial intelligence doesn`t write human beings out of the picture entirely ! Je vous souhaite (du Québec) une bonne et heureuse année 2025 !
Thank you Dr. for spreading your vast knowledge of art history to the people.
Everyone who has even a passing interest in art should be watching these.
Looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2025. Cheers !
Most people have seen these pictures but never looked at them. Thank you
Happy Holidays! I found your channel while curious about art forgery but have stayed for long after. I look forward to every new video and am in constant awe of your depth of knowledge. Your channel deserves to be so much bigger than it is and I feel lucky I found my way here.
Ai steals our cultural soul
Thank you so much for sharing Dr Shafe, have a lovely Christmas!
Most interesting as there is so much dribble spoken about art your knowledge of the subject is much appreciated
Thanks Dr Shafe for another illuminating talk. I am a regular viewer and value and enjoy learning from your expertise. That said, as others have expressed, I am deeply opposed to AI in interpreting creativity, culture, history and humanity, as I feel the LLMs have already done irreparable damage to the accuracy of information and it will only get worse. So please don't relegate your knowledge to the non-human. Happy holidays!
Happy New Year Dr Shafe, looking forward to what you have in store for us!
great video as usual!
Great video! Probably a silly question, but is there any significance to the numbers shown on the die in the bottom-right corner of the inset at 2:23? It's non-standard as you would not normally be able to see both 2 and 5; I'm not sure whether it's simply that this standard wasn't so universal in Bosch's time or whether the numbers themselves have some meaning.
It is a good question and has been discussed by art historians. No one knows the reason but the opposing sides of a die adding to 7 has been the convention since classical times. I did find a law of Antwerp in 1493, “Rogues who play dice shall be put in the pillory for their first offence and then hung in a basket over water so that they fall in; the second time they shall have one ear nailed to the pillory with iron nails and remain there until they pull it off.” So, as the painting warns about various sins, and gambling was a sin my guess is that Bosch purposefully shows an incorrect dice. A nice idea is that 2, 4 and 5 refer to a passage in the Bible but I can find a relevant passage against gambling.
Terrific idea for a video 👍
AI sucks. It steals from real artists.
At best AI, a bit of electrified dead plastic, may be inspired by the superior originality of human beings.
I'm pretty sure the portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon is actually a depiction of Pope Pius XII, who was pope during the time the Holocaust happened, and was still the pope when Bacon made that picture.
An interesting interpretation. We know Bacon painted a series of works based on Velázquez’s 1650 portrait of Pope Innocent X and they have been interpreted as a critique of power, authority, and human suffering but there is no direct evidence that he intended it to be a portrait of Pope Pius XII or a direct commentary on the Holocaust. Of course, the distorted, screaming figure suggests such an interpretation as its themes of guilt, trauma, and anguish resonate with reflections on World War II and the Holocaust. Pope Pius XII’s controversial role during that period has also fuelled such debates but Bacon never explicitly connected his work to those historical events or figures.
Using AI knowing that it is an engine powered by someone else's work makes us complicit in theft. There are no excuses.
I enjoy your presentations Dr. Shafe.
I can only hope that artificial intelligence doesn`t write human beings out of the picture entirely !
Je vous souhaite (du Québec) une bonne et heureuse année 2025 !
None of these are as strange as AI art . . seen all these images many times before.
AI is dead plastic. At best it is inspired by the superior originality of human beings.
Yes, but you never looked at them.