{"id":419,"date":"2013-01-28T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T08:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/?p=419"},"modified":"2013-01-31T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T08:31:27","slug":"419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/2013\/01\/28\/419\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden self-portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bosco.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-420\" title=\"The Garden of Earthly Delights\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bosco.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThe Garden of Earthly Delights\u201d. Hieronymus Bosch, c.1500\" width=\"625\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bosco.jpg 625w, https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bosco-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u201cThe Garden of Earthly Delights\u201d. Hieronymus Bosch, c.1500<\/p>\n<p>A walk round the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esmadrid.com\/en\/prado-museum\"  target=\"_blank\">Prado Museum<\/a> can unearth secrets only known by lovers of painting. If you look closely at these works you&#8217;ll get some &#8220;personal&#8221; knowledge about their authors, whose self-portraits are hidden away somewhere in the painting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent hours searching for Wally on the beach, at the railway station or on the ski slope; now I&#8217;ve got to find Bosch in some of his paintings on display in the PradoMuseum. Here\u2019s a clue: he portrayed himself looking very pale in <em>The Garden of Earthly Delights<\/em>, the triptych that King Felipe II ofSpain was so fascinated by.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sanmiguel.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-425\" title=\"\u201cThe Archangel Saint Michael\u201d. Anonymous, 1495-1500\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sanmiguel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sanmiguel.jpg 625w, https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sanmiguel-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe Archangel Saint Michael\u201d. Anonymous, 1495-1500<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s even more difficult to find this anonymous painter from the Spanish-Flemish school. \u00a0However, he wanted to assert his authorship by portraying himself at work, in an era when artists did not usually sign their paintings. It\u2019s a shame that the figure is so tiny that we can\u2019t tell him apart from the many other distinguished painters of his time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Garden of Earthly Delights\u201d. Hieronymus Bosch, c.1500 A walk round the Prado Museum can unearth secrets only known by lovers of painting. If you look closely at these works you&#8217;ll get some &#8220;personal&#8221; knowledge about their authors, whose self-portraits are hidden away somewhere in the painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43,42,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}