Category: Icons
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08 Russian Icons from the Bible, with footnotes, #12
18th C. Russian Icon Christ Emmanuel Egg tempera and gold leaf on wood 10.25″ W x 12.25″ H (26 cm x 31.1 cm) Private collection The text beneath may refer to a passage of Isaiah that Christ read in the synagogue of Nazareth, “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the Lord…
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10 Icons from the Bible, with footnotes, #16
Italian School, 19th century, in the manner of a Trecento work THE MADONNA AND CHILD Oil and gold ground on poplar panel 47.2 x 29.6 cm.; 18 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. Private collection The Trecento refers to the 14th century in Italian cultural history. Commonly the Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the…
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13 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 56
Vincent van Gogh, (1853 – 1890) Pietà (after Delacroix), c. September 1889 Oil on canvas 73 cm x 60.5 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) Van Gogh based his Pietà on a lithograph of a painting by Eugène Delacroix (below). In fact, it is more a variation on the original work than…
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15 Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 – 19th Century. With Footnote, # 12
The master of the Kefermarkter altar Madonna on the Crescent Moon with the Christ Child Crescent Madonna Height: 140 cm. Around 1490/1500. The slender body is conceived on a carved rock base with foot above the crescent, standing between two angelic figures. A scepter in the right hand, in the left arm-bend the Jesus child,…
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20 Menological Orthodox Calendar Icons from the Bible, with footnotes, #17
Some Saints and Feasts of the Orthodox Christian Church “As the prophets beheld, as the Apostles have taught, as the Church has received, as the Teachers have dogmatised, as the Universe has agreed, as Grace has shown forth, as Truth has revealed, as falsehood has been dissolved, as Wisdom has presented, as Christ awarded, thus…
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14 Icons, Small Byzantine & Russian Icons, from the 4th – 15th Century with footnotes, #15
A SILVER-MOUNTED STEATITE ICON, Byzantine THE HODIGITRIA MOTHER OF GOD, 10th-12th century Carved in half-length and supporting a Child on her left hip 3.5 x 2.9 cm. Soapstone Private Collection A Hodegetria is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to Him as the source of…
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