http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/09/03/matthias-grnewald/ Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:46:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/09/03/matthias-grnewald/#comment-13686 Jeff Hayes Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:40:15 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/09/03/matthias-grnewald/#comment-13686 This is one of those paintings I could (and probably should) spend all day looking at. It's sort of trivia, but Grünewald is the main character in the opera Mathis der Mahler (Matthias the Painter) by the 20th century composer Paul Hindemith, who supposedly drew inspiration from the Isenheim Alterpiece. The opera itself is rarely performed, but the symphony that he extracted from it is one of the great modern orchestral scores. This is one of those paintings I could (and probably should) spend all day looking at. It’s sort of trivia, but Grünewald is the main character in the opera Mathis der Mahler (Matthias the Painter) by the 20th century composer Paul Hindemith, who supposedly drew inspiration from the Isenheim Alterpiece. The opera itself is rarely performed, but the symphony that he extracted from it is one of the great modern orchestral scores.

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