In The Fall of the Saints we see seven figures and a naked women in a dizzying fall. Floating and free-falling figures often feature in Frits Van den Berghe’s work. They represent our uncertainty in a world that offers us less and less to hold onto. The work is probably linked to the growing social unrest around 1930. For this painting Van den Berge did a preliminary study in oils and a drawing in Indian ink, both of which are also in the museum collection.
| Artist |
Frits Van den Berghe
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| Title | The Fall of the Saints |
| Date | 1933 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year top right: FVBerghe / 33 |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1933-Z |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Van den Berghe, Frits Ghent 1933 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1933-Z |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/1350/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300056485
fantastic art
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300055874 religious symbolism AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11G3
angels fighting
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11H saints Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A2731 falling Iconclass 31A2763 floating in the air Iconclass 31A2764 falling through the air Iconclass |
| Museo de los Museos : Arte Universal a través de los Tiempos (exposicion Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, september - december 1984) / Verónica Volkow. - Mexico : Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1984 (p. 39-40 (ill.)) |
| D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 270-271, cat. 74 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 69 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
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