{"id":594,"date":"2014-09-25T06:04:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/?p=594"},"modified":"2014-09-25T06:33:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T06:33:40","slug":"ladder-of-matrimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"ladder of matrimony , ladder from the crusifix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I put ladders and art into the search and came first to V&A collections who in turn have a great image search engine.There are a number of images , sculptures, artifacts relating to ladders in the V&A collectio<\/a>n.<\/p>\n

The first was a card in the shape of a ladder called the ladder of matrimony. Artist unknown. I was not particularly drawn to this but it was the first to come up
\n\"ladder<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The second I was drawan two was a relief carving of Christ being bought down from the cross
\n\"Christ<\/p>\n

looking at the relief of christ coming being taken from the Cross I think of how christ looked up to the heavens at his father…Oh why have you forsaken me..Then men had to climb a ladder to bring him down from the cross. Down to their level. The ground in readyness to bury him. To dig. In this case to put him in a cave. I’m interested how the ladder in this case is to take down rather than bring up. IN this case the fruit is the dead christ. THe descent from the cross is a powerfull point in the story. Looking into other images on the dreaded Wikipedia<\/a> I notice the ladder<\/p>\n

Then returning to the card I notice that the fold, the join is tapered to a centre point. This could be seen as one ladder or two connecting. I reflect on the dynamics of my “matrimonial” relationship. Our challenges, were we devide and meet.<\/p>\n

At the cross there were two women. his mother a Mary and his lover Mary Magdalaine. Ok I don’t know if Mary was his lover. The saved prostitute whose feet he washed. I charachter I have always been drawn to<\/p>\n

\"christ.<\/p>\n

El Descendimiento, by Rogier van der Weyden (1399\/1400\u20131464) prado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I put ladders and art into the search and came first to V&A collections who in turn have a great image search engine.There are a number of images , sculptures, artifacts relating to ladders in the V&A collection. The first was a card in the shape of a ladder called the ladder of matrimony. … Continue reading ladder of matrimony , ladder from the crusifix<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[23,25,24,26,27,28,21],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-digging","category-ladder","tag-card","tag-christ","tag-christ-and-the-r","tag-mary-magdalaine","tag-prado","tag-relationship","tag-va","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}