Category: Religious Art
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St. Catherine 01 Ivory Carvings, from Bible stories! 17th Century. With Footnote, # 16
Circa 1600s ivory relief carving depicting the beheading of St. Catherine. Broken wheel in the background. Atypical depiction shows a small boy holding the ropes that bind Catherine’s wrists. More on this relief Saint Catherine of Alexandria is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands…
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Simon de Vos, The Visitation 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 119
The Visitation. Mary visits her relative Elizabeth; they are both pregnant. Mary is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant with John the Baptist. Elizabeth was in the sixth month before Mary came. Mary stayed three months, and most scholars hold she stayed for the birth of John. The apparition of the angel, mentioned in Matthew,…
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Early Netherlandish School, The Virgin and Child 01 Works RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 126
The present Madonna and Child is based on a type developed by Gerard David in the second decade of the sixteenth century, such as in his Madonna and Child at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (inv. no. 3559). The composition spread among the artists of Gerard’s immediate circle and was returned to by…
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Walter Bird; Devil Dance 01 Photograph, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 33
Devil Dance is a Western description from the early 20th century for the Tibetan Buddhist ritual dances known as ‘cham or Chhaam. Cham are often performed by monks in costume, and it is from these costumes that the description “devil dance” derives. ‘Cham are performed to purge, cleanse, combat evil, and bring good fortune, as well…
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Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Saint Nicholas
An icon painted in two registers. Greece, c. 1744. Heavy Softwood single panel. Egg tempera on gesso (gypsum), Konturritzungen, partially gilded. In the upper frame a full figure enthroned Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist. The underlying three selected saints: St. Athanasius, St. Nicholas and St. Charalampi…. The upper frame is dated ‘1744’ ‘…
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Le jour des morts (All Saints’ Day) 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5b
All Souls’ Day, Saturday of Souls, Thursday of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Halloween, All Saints’ Day, Samhain, Totensonntag, Blue Christmas. In Christianity, All Souls’ Day commemorates All Souls, the Holy Souls, or the Faithful Departed; that is, the souls of Christians who have died. Observing Christians typically remember deceased relatives on the day. In…
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Josse Lieferinxe; Saint Sebastian Cured by Irene 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 170
Saint Sebastian (died c. 288 AD) was an early Christian saint and martyr. Sebastian had prudently concealed his faith, but in 286 was detected. Diocletian reproached him for his betrayal, and he commanded him to be led to a field and there to be bound to a stake so that archers from Mauritania would shoot arrows at…
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27 Artists embedded with the First Crusade, Jerusalem Delivered, with footnotes # 36
Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli (17 April 1604 – 12 July 1656) was an Italian painter of…
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Bolognese School, RINALDO AND ARMIDA 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 169
Armida is a fictional character created by the Italian late Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso. She is a Saracen sorceress. In his epic Gerusalemme liberata, Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome. Armida has been sent to stop the Christians from completing their mission and is about to murder the sleeping…
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Giovanni Battista Paggi, he Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 133
The mystical marriage of Saint Catherine covers two different subjects in Christian art arising from visions received by either Catherine of Alexandria or Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), in which these virgin saints went through a mystical marriage wedding ceremony with Christ, in the presence of the Virgin Mary, consecrating themselves and their virginity to him. More…
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Circle of Raffaello Sanzio, Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 128
The composition of the present painting derives from the celebrated Raphael prototype, the so-called Madonna of the Rose, painted in 1517, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, which is set indoors and with the figure of Saint Joseph on the left. This subject was returned to several times by Raphael’s workshop and by artists…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 12, is Saint Benedict Biscop’s Day, With Footnotes – 12
St. Benet (Benedict) Biscop carrying St. Peter’s Basilica to Britain, c. 8th C Saint Benedict Biscop, also called Benet Biscop, orBiscop Baducing, (born c. 628, Northumbria, Eng.—died Jan. 12, 689/690, Wearmouth, Northumbria; founder and first abbot of the twin monasteries of SS. Peter (at Wearmouth) and Paul (at Jarrow on Tyne); he is considered to be…
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Lovis Corinth, Susanna and the Elders 01 Painting, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 35
A fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the…
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