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- **Posted:** 2022-07-09T16:06:26.000+00:00
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## Caption

Vision boarding, but make it art. What catches your eye?

By arranging prints and gold foil paper on a large sheet of paper, John Bingley Garland created this collage to emulate the layout of a medieval illuminated manuscript. He used red opaque watercolor to mimic drops of blood.

In the upper left corner, Garland glued a page from the facsimile edition of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I’s Prayer Book (1513–15). The page contains, among other motifs, a monstrous winged creature and a scene of Death armed with a scythe chasing a horseman.

In the upper right corner, he replaced the original Latin text of the book of hours with a lengthy passage from the Night Thoughts, a poem by Edward Young that explores themes of grief and death of a loved one.

In the lower center, Mary Magdalene lies on a bed of colored blossoms as an angel plays the violin. On the left, a minute figure of a crucified Christ surrounded by cherubs emanates golden rays. Above him, a serpent coils around terrified horsemen, creating a visual echo with the adjacent representation in the Prayer Book.

Examine this piece up close at the link in our bio or in the Getty Center's West Pavilion as part of "In Dialogue."

#Collage #Art #Museums #StopScrolling

🎨 Collage, 1850s–60s, John Bingley Garland. Getty Museum

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