Adoration of the Magi,
Velazquez
Judith with the Head
of Holofernes,
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Martha and Mary
Magdalene,
Caravaggio
Joseph's Bloody Coat
brought to Jacob,
Velazquez
The Mocking of Christ,
Matthias Grunewald
The Presentation in the Temple,
Hans Memling
The Finding of Moses,
Paolo Veronese
Christ and the Fallen Woman,
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Prophet Elijah and the
Widow of Sarepta,
Bernardo Strozzi
The Birth of the Virgin,
Giovanni da Milano
Christ in the House of
Mary and Martha,
VelazquezI have been mulling over how best to present my arguments in discussing The Red Tent and The Girl with a Pearl Earring. I keep running into obstacles, because a lot of the points I want to make seem self-evident in my first run-through but yet prove potentially obscure to others.
And so I thought I would start with a little preparation work first. Given that one of the works is set in the biblical era, and the other involves a renowned painter, I thought a good place to begin would be with paintings of biblical scenes.
The thumbnails below are linked to the website where I found them - a great place for further browsing as well.
Pay attention if you will to the incongruous and anachronistic touches in the images represented below; easy starting points are clothing and environment.
Also, to arm yourself with sufficient ammunition to refute my feeble claims, you might wish to start reading the critical reviews of the two works to be considered; the links in the first paragraph will take you to their respective pages on amazon, and you might wish to look at those reviews that rated it at two stars or below.
