7 Details Hidden In These Paintings We Bet You Didn't Notice!

• 11:54 pm August 16, 2018
• suhas

A picture says a 1000 words and more often than not, it hides the words and thoughts of the picture maker, be it the photographer or the painter. Weaving stories into each cross - section of their work, they manage to create wonders. But do they also hide secrets?Lets find out!

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

This painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is touted for being the most secretive work of art ever. Called Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, you'd soon realize that Icarus is lost in the mayhem of the picture. Many controversies surround this work, but the most famous one goes like this:

It proclaims that a person’s death can’t stop the flow of life, even the death of such a bold and brave character like Icarus. That’s why in the foreground of the picture we see a working plowman, while Icarus himself is hidden in the bottom right corner of the painting. Nobody noticed his fall, life is harsh but it is going on. The second explanation says that Icarus’s death as a person that was striving for new achievements and discoveries is a defeat for all those who are drawn to light and perfection.

Young Woman Powdering Herself

Many paintings that are made carry a hidden story, like this one by Georges Seurat. Turns out the woman in the picture is the sweetheart of the painter whose name was Madeleine Knobloch. Turns out this art style was rather unusual for Seurat and perhaps love drove him to take to a style he otherwise shied away from!

There is yet another story behind this. Initially, the painter drew his self-portrait in the window where he was looking at the girl with love, but per the advice of one of his friends he replaced his portrait with flowers in a vase. What a pity!

Woman at a Window

Women have naturally been seen to be the most beautiful subjects and not just because they are a vase of emotions and reactions and make for interesting beings, but because of their endless beauty. Now, in this case of an unknown artist - On the left, is a photo of the canvas during restoration where the primer coat can be seen. On the right side, is the canvas after the restoration. The canvas Woman at a Window belonging to an unknown painter, which is stored in the National Gallery of London, has a very interesting story. In 1978 the painting was sent for restoration where it was revealed that there lay another layer of painting of the same subject, but with different features, clothes and expressions. It may have been the social sentiments that made the artist redo his work.

School of Athens

Lets go back to School of Athens by Raffaello Santi. This famous fresco has so many surprises hidden within it that you would be left wide mouthed. Now turns out the painter embodied the images of great thinkers and scientists and also decided to perpetuate some of his famous friends in it. For example, he copied the appearance of Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, from Michelangelo Buonarroti (1), the philosopher Plato resembles Leonardo da Vinci (2), while the facial features of Raphael himself can be seen in the image of Apelles — an ancient Greek painter.

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

When you have that as the title of your painting you cannot expect nothing from the picture. Now turns out Paul Gauguin weaved in a sense of of great mystery. About 5 feet in height and 12 feet in length, the artwork should be "read" from left to right like the Kabbalistic texts that Gauguin believed in. Do you see some references to famous philosophies here?