Isenheim Altarpiece
1516 · Unterlinden Museum, Colmar
Christ's body hangs green and pocked with sores, painted for a hospital whose patients saw their own ravaged flesh.
★ 9.3
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Utopia
1516 · 135 pages
On More's island nobody owns anything, everyone works six hours a day, and gold goes into chamber pots. More invented the word utopia for it and the literature of the ideal society followed.
★ 7.3
Christ Carrying the Cross (Bosch)
1516 · Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Ghent), Ghent
A crush of leering faces fills every inch, and Christ moves through the middle of it with his eyes shut.
★ 6.8