'Endlessly nuanced dreams': painter James Ensor was a gifted, irreverent religious artist.(Opinion & ARTS)

National Catholic Reporter | July 24, 2009| | Copyright

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The last great religious painting of the 19th century was not publicly exhibited until a major retrospective was held for James Ensor at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels in 1929 and King Albert I of Belgium bestowed on him the title Of baron. Ensor's monumental "The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889," which he had completed in 1888 (it is over 8 feet high and 14 feet wide), was at once a contemporary interpretation of Christ entering Jerusalem/Brussels (with Ensor playing Christ), a critique of contemporary Belgian society, and a ...

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