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01-16-2007, 06:45 AM
People have enjoyed cartoons for many centuries. The word cartoon comes from Italian cartone "pasteboard, a sketch of a planned drawing or painting done on heavy paper," that word came from carta "sheet of paper," from Latin charta "piece of papyrus."
Some of the first "cartoons" or "graphic novels" were sequential panels painted to tell stories from the bible.
In 1510 - almost 500 years ago - Mattias Grunwald painted this one, on a wood panel, a part of the Isenheim Alterpiece located in Colmar, France.
Xray used images from this painting - The Temptation of St. Anthony - to construct an animated avatar for Deadeye's Guest.
http://www.anthroposophy.org.nz/images/The%20Temptation%20of%20Saint%20Anthony%20(detail) .jpg
Here's the entire panel:
http://www.anthroposophy.org.nz/images/The%20Temptation%20of%20St%20Anthony.jpg
The Isenheim Alterpiece is relatively unknown to the general public, but Mattias Grunewald is considered a master by many artists who made a pilgramage to Colmar to see the alterpiece in person because reproductions do not do justice to the exquisiteness of the painting.
See more panels from the Isenheim Alterpiece:
http://www.anthroposophy.org.nz/Sections/Medical/Grunewald.htm
Some of the first "cartoons" or "graphic novels" were sequential panels painted to tell stories from the bible.
In 1510 - almost 500 years ago - Mattias Grunwald painted this one, on a wood panel, a part of the Isenheim Alterpiece located in Colmar, France.
Xray used images from this painting - The Temptation of St. Anthony - to construct an animated avatar for Deadeye's Guest.
http://www.anthroposophy.org.nz/images/The%20Temptation%20of%20Saint%20Anthony%20(detail) .jpg
Here's the entire panel:
http://www.anthroposophy.org.nz/images/The%20Temptation%20of%20St%20Anthony.jpg
The Isenheim Alterpiece is relatively unknown to the general public, but Mattias Grunewald is considered a master by many artists who made a pilgramage to Colmar to see the alterpiece in person because reproductions do not do justice to the exquisiteness of the painting.
See more panels from the Isenheim Alterpiece:
http://www.anthroposophy.org.nz/Sections/Medical/Grunewald.htm