Category: Religious Art
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Girolamo Viscardi, SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST 01 Carving, 15 & 16th Century Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible!; With Footnotes – 8a
John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness; also referred to as the Angel of the Desert) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John was the cousin of Jesus, and his calling…
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CARMEN PARRA, Arcángel San Gabriel 01 Works, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 31
The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as “Holy Communion” or “The Lord’s Supper”. The four canonical Gospels all state that the Last Supper took place towards the end…
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CARMEN PARRA, Arcángel San Gabriel 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27
In the Abrahamic religions, Gabriel is an angel who typically serves as a messenger sent from God to certain people. In the Old Testament, he appears to the prophet Daniel, delivering explanations of Daniel’s visions. In the Gospel of Luke, Gabriel appeared to Zechariah and the Virgin Mary, foretelling the births of John the Baptist and…
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Sir William Russell Flint; Holiday After Ramadan 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 47
“Away from the center of the city the native swarms were worth watching. They were picturesque in the full meaning of the word, and after their fast, they were out to enjoy themselves, and enjoy themselves they did, ashore and afloat. Many took to the Nile and acted as unsecured ballast for the numerous top…
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Luis Royo; Fallen Angel 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 24
In Abrahamic religions, fallen angels are angels who were expelled from heaven. The term “fallen angel” appears neither in the Bible nor in other Abrahamic scriptures, but is used of angels who were cast out of heaven, or angels who sinned. Such angels often tempt humans to sin. More on fallen angels Luis Royo (born 1954) is a…
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Henry Varnum Poor, Mother and Child 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 25
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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Tintoretto, St George 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 118
Saint George (circa 275/281 – 23 April 303 AD) was a soldier in the Roman army who later became venerated as a Christian martyr. His parents were Christians of Greek background; his father Gerontius was a Roman army official from Cappadocia and his mother Polychronia was from Lydda, Syria Palaestina. Saint George became an officer in…
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Filippo Lippi, The Adoration in the Forest 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 116
Adoration in the Forest is a painting completed before 1459 by the Carmelite friar, Filippo Lippi, of the Virgin Mary and the newly born Christ Child lying on the ground, in the unusual setting of a steep, dark, wooded wilderness. There are no shepherds, kings, ox, ass – there is no Joseph. “Lippi removes a whole…
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Nell Dorr: Tasha Tudor and Child 01 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 23
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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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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Sebastiano Ricci, Saint Anthony of Padua Healing a Youth 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 115
Saint Anthony of Padua (Portuguese: Santo António), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries…
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Giorgione, Castelfranco Madonna 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 130
Commissioned by Tuzio Constanzo, a member of the Order of Malta, the Castelfranco Madonna was produced in memory of his son, Matteo. Tuzio was a condottiero, one of the warlords of Italian city-states during the late Middle Ages. His son died, probably whilst serving him, for the Republic of Venice in the early 1500s. He was…
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Giovanni Muzzioli, Abraham and Sarah in the Court of Pharaoh 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 177
According to the essay for the reconfirmation of the pensioner, the great biblical scene sent to Modena in 1875 provoked discordant opinions. The scene takes place in a seemingly external environment with the protagonists pushed in the foreground by an architectural backdrop, made with calibrated archaeological taste. The scene, Abraham and Sara close to each…
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Flemish School 17th century, The Stigmatization of Saint Francis 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 119
The Stigmatization of Saint Francis. Two years before his death, according to his custom, Saint Francis had repaired to Mt La Verna to spend the 40 days preceding the feast of St. Michael the Archangel in prayer and fasting. On the morning of the feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross, as he was praying in…
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