{"id":109142,"date":"2016-03-19T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T09:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/19\/hellotailor-decoding-the-artistic-inspiration\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T23:51:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T23:51:21","slug":"hellotailor-decoding-the-artistic-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/19\/hellotailor-decoding-the-artistic-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-109142 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/19\/hellotailor-decoding-the-artistic-inspiration\/attachment\/109143\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o43xpvavrr1qiu5xgo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o43xpvavrr1qiu5xgo1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o43xpvavrr1qiu5xgo1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/19\/hellotailor-decoding-the-artistic-inspiration\/attachment\/109144\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o43xpvavrr1qiu5xgo2_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o43xpvavrr1qiu5xgo2_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o43xpvavrr1qiu5xgo2_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hellotailor.tumblr.com\/post\/141119786495\" target=\"_blank\">hellotailor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/daredevil-season-2-caravaggio-posters\/?tu=gav\" target=\"_blank\">Decoding the artistic inspiration behind <i>Daredevil<\/i>\u2019s season 2 posters<\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<p>After coming across <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/bbJ5k0t\" target=\"_blank\">an Imgur post<\/a> comparing three of the new <i>Daredevil<\/i>\u00a0posters to paintings by Caravaggio and Rubens, I decided to take a closer look. (N.B. the detailed multi-character poster is based on one of Michelangelo\u2019s frescos in the Sistine Chapel! Intense.)<\/p>\n<p>First up: Karen Page, whose solo poster (pictured above) was clearly inspired by Caravaggio\u2019s \u201cSaint Jerome Writing.\u201d\u00a0The Catholic saint is hard at work at his desk, accompanied by a skull as a memento mori\u2014a symbolic reminder of death and mortality. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/927b8d7768cf039d3559dd20f1a5ab73\/tumblr_inline_o43xjc2WUN1qhnr9h_540.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Daredevil\u2019s own poster is a little harder to identify, although it\u2019s probably Saint Sebastian. The original Imgur post links it to a painting by the 17th century Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, but there are plenty of St Sebastian paintings to choose from. Whichever one it is, he\u2019s a fitting choice for Matt Murdock: a beautiful, tormented martyr.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For a more complete guide to Sebastian-related art, I recommend Mallory Ortberg\u2019s piece in <i>The Toast<\/i>: \u201d<b><a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/06\/17\/the-martyrdom-of-saint-sebastian-in-ascending-order-of-sexiness-and-descending-order-of-actual-martyring\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Martyrdom Of Saint Sebastian, In Ascending Order Of Sexiness And Descending Order Of Actual Martyring<\/a>.<\/b>\u201c Despite his actual role of being shot with arrows while tied to a tree, Sebastian became something of a homoerotic icon in religious art, depicted as mostly nude and oddly unbothered by his impending death.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/daredevil-season-2-caravaggio-posters\/?tu=gav\" target=\"_blank\">[READ MORE]<\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hellotailor: Decoding the artistic inspiration behind Daredevil\u2019s season 2 posters After coming across an Imgur post comparing three of the new Daredevil\u00a0posters to paintings by Caravaggio and Rubens, I decided to take a closer look. (N.B. the detailed multi-character poster is based on one of Michelangelo\u2019s frescos in the Sistine Chapel! Intense.) First up: Karen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/19\/hellotailor-decoding-the-artistic-inspiration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,12715,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109145,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109142\/revisions\/109145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}