By Stan Parchin
Radiant Darkness: The Art of Nocturnal Light, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California (April 24-July 22, 2007), features 21 works of various media from the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. They illustrate nighttime light and describe its symbolism during the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Western Europe. The exhibition is divided thematically by light source, be it divine, manmade (by candle or fire) or astronomical. The Netherlandish, French, Italian and Dutch schools of painting are represented in this unique and focused show of manuscript illuminations and other paintings from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Hammer Museum's Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts and the Huntington Art Collections.
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 Folio 51: The Nativity from Katherine Hours, ca. 1480-1485 |  Astronomer by Candlelight, late 1650s |  The Nativity (ca. 1600) |
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