MASTERPIECES AND THEIR HIDDEN MEANINGS

Learn to read the secret language of art​

Famous masterpieces by Rembrandt, Leonardo and Michelangelo are riddled with sublime messages, that majority of people simply can’t notice

Start deciphering secrets of great art today, simply by watching short yet captivating video series on my Patreon.

Here is the list of topics, waiting to be discovered:

MODULE ONE: THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIAN ART

  1. Early Christians make use of symbolism
  2. The most common symbols: are a fish, charisma, a grapevine
  3. Christian and pagan art: not so different after all
  4. Old Testament stories and their allegorical meaning
  5. Pagan legends in Christian catacombs (that’s unexpected!)
  6. A few more inappropriate Greek deities
  7. Christian sarcophaguses (yes, Christian did use them)
  8. The radical innovation of Christian art
  9. Or maybe, not so radical…

MODULE TWO: MAKING SENSE OF MEDIEVAL CATHEDRALS AND THEIR SYMBOLISM

  1. The core idea of Gothic symbolism
  2. Animals and their allegorical meaning
  3. Gothic style sets a dangerous trap!
  4. Gothic cathedral as a model of the universe
  5. Allegories of virtues and vices
  6. Old Testament characters and their symbolic meaning
  7. Apostles and saints: how to identify them
  8. Diabolical legends

MODULE THREE: HIDDEN MESSAGES OF RUBENS, REMBRANDT, MICHALANGELO AND DUTCH STILL LIFES

  1. Bacchus by Rubens: the big, the stern and the ugly
  2. Subtle message (of not-so-subtle diety)
  3. «Crouching Boy» by Michelangelo: a little-known masterpiece
  4. The philosophical concept behind the «crouching boy»
  5. Rembrandt’s «Danae»: a masterpiece that has survived
  6. Revealing the subject of the painting: an artistic investigation
  7. «Danae» as an imprint of Rembrandt’s personal tragedy

TOTAL:

27 DIGESTABLE LECTURES
about 7 hours of fun to watch video

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MY LECTURES ARE ALL ABOUT HIDDEN SYMBOLS, MEANING AND SUBLIME MESSAGES.

LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT A FEW EXAMPLES, SHALL WE?

Here is Moses, a statue by Michelangelo.

Note that he has small horns on his head. I wonder where these strange accessories came from?

Speaking of strange accessories: take a look at the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Do you know what kind of round object she’s holding?

A sieve! And why would the queen need such a domestic tool? There is an explanation for this. A two-part explanation, in fact: one has to do with the biography of the queen herself, the second – with an episode from the history of ancient Rome … Curious yet?

Or here’s another thing: often the paintings tell about the everyday life of people of the past.  But those tales might be incomprehensible to us, because life has changed a lot since then. Here, for example, is a fragment of Bosch’s triptych “Haywain”. Doesn’t look disturbing, is it? Two ladies are talking, one of them has a baby in her arms.

But to a contemporary it would immediately become clear that these ladies are involved in illegal and deeply immoral business. And it would be precisely the baby and the strange white hat of one of the women that would lead him to this idea… Any guesses?

WELL, THAT’S EXACTLY THE KING OF FASCINATING TOPICS THAT YOU WILL EXPLORE, ONCE SUBSCRIBED TO MY PATREON.

In these lectures you WILL NOT FIND:

  • General, pointless and almost sedative passages that some lectures on art love so much: “Look at the gracefully flowing folds of the toga, gently wrapping around the slender figure of Aphrodite…”
  • Unverified or simply false facts, such as the legend of the sixth finger of Pope Sixtus II in a painting by Raphael (I already wrote like a hundred times in my blog: there is no sixth finger! It’s just optical trick!)
  • Esoteric speculations, conspiracy theories, aliens, reptilians, and other things of such nature. I have a distaste for them.

But in these lectures you WILL FIND:

  • Strictly scientifical theories, presented in a clear and comprehensible manner.
  • Emphasis on details, symbols, and allegories. Interpreting the meaning of paintings, revealing their hidden meanings is what I – and my listeners – enjoy the most.
  • I also like to expand the boundaries of the topic and look for links between art and literature, politics and philosophy. For example, in the course on Middle Ages I briefly research the famous “Consolation with Philosophy” by Boethius as a way to better understand medieval manner of thinking.

In these lectures you WILL NOT FIND:

  • General, pointless and almost sedative passages that some lectures on art love so much: “Look at the gracefully flowing folds of the toga, gently wrapping around the slender figure of Aphrodite…”
  • Unverified or simply false facts, such as the legend of the sixth finger of Pope Sixtus II in a painting by Raphael (I already wrote like a hundred times in my blog: there is no sixth finger! It’s just optical trick!)
  • Esoteric speculations, conspiracy theories, aliens, reptilians, and other things of such nature. I have a distaste for them.

But in these lectures you WILL FIND:

  • Strictly scientifical theories, presented in a clear and comprehensible manner.
  • Emphasis on details, symbols, and allegories. Interpreting the meaning of paintings, revealing their hidden meanings is what I – and my listeners – enjoy the most.
  • I also like to expand the boundaries of the topic and look for links between art and literature, politics and philosophy. For example, in the course on Middle Ages I briefly research the famous “Consolation with Philosophy” by Boethius as a way to better understand medieval manner of thinking.

Now, to give some ground to my claims, here are some excerpts from my lectures.

In this video, I reveal-finally! – the secret of the mysterious sieve is in the hands of Queen Elizabeth.

How Moses got his horns

In this short video we will uncover the reason for all those medieval sculptures of Moses (including the famous one by Michelangelo) wearing horns! 

These two videos are from two different courses: on the Renaissance and on the Middle Ages.

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