I was browsing sketch and paintings in the Rijskmuseum site and more and more weird details get my attention...at first where hard to notice as 1 ant moving in a garden, but as for ants at soon you notice one you start to notice that are many more around... and was the same
First were hanging corpses , that may even by a reasonable subject for a dramatic paint, but what i found strange is that were never the subject , never was any emphasis on them , at the contrary were often just a vague detail in the bg , as hanged bodies were a absolutely normal part of the panorama, no more worth of notice then flying birds of trees
humm now i found only 1 example but i saw much more yesterday,
i raised the contrast to make detail more visible but for the rest i didn't make changes
a zoom on the detail
Landlieden met sleden op het ijs, Hendrick Avercamp, 1595 - 1634
see
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collec ... 9-A-4198,5but was another surprising subject , first i show the original ...
Winter Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collec ... -A-1774,12maybe you didn't notice nothing too strange ?
now again i raised the contrast, and i crop a detail of the leftmost side
and you may see starting from the left :
1 a man pissing on a tree
2 a dog shitting
3 just behind the dog, and exactly in the same posture of the dog a man doing the same
4 a children with a old woman both in very ragged cloths , the children seems trying to protect his noise from foul smell,
5 a well dressed man curved to look closely and with luxury the ... behind of a old poor woman that felt on her 4 on the ice :
falling her skirt went up revealing the legs and more and the man is all focused on that
And now looking better even the other half now seems less innocent of what at first glance:
even that couple skate-dancing on the ice, sure she is nice and nicely dressed and the man too wear pricey cloths and seems a expert dancer
but looking better she is so young and nice even innocent , he so older and from his expression may have evil and luxurious intention ,
maybe he is driving his victim in a place behind the corner where to rape her ... who know ?
but even the dancing couple become a bit more weird at a second look , also because the context
IJsvermaak op een stadsgracht, Hendrick Avercamp, ca. 1615 - ca. 1620
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collec ... K-A-802,10 another large
and again on the left are details as