Category: Religious Art
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11 Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 & 16th Century. With Footnotes -# 9
I search Art History for Beautiful works that may, or may not, have a secondary or unexpected story to tell. I then write short summaries that grow from my research. Art work is so much more when its secrets are exposed
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09 Carvings – Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 & 16th Century. With Footnotes, # 8
Our lady and baby Jesus Terracotta painted sculpture, with silver crown, 18th century 24 cm. Private collection TWO CHURCH FATHERS, around 1800 Spain or Italy Wood, carved in, polychrome and gilt. H. 59 cm or 60 cm Private collection Two Fathers dressed in liturgical vestments with corresponding attributes: Cast and gospel book or a cathedral.…
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10 Paintings, scenes from Olympian Myth, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 41
18th century FRENCH school, workshop of Jean RESTOUT Juno (Hera) at Eole Oil on canvas 48.5 x 59 cm, 19 X 22 3/4 in Private Collection Aeneas is empowered by the gods with the task of leading the Trojan refugees from their destroyed city to Italy where they will make the beginning of an empire. Juno loved the city…
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11 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 40
Henry Nelson O’Neil, ARA (British, 1817-1880) Esther, c. 1850 Oil on canvas 103.5 x 76.5cm (40 3/4 x 30 1/8in) Private collection And glittering in royal robes…she took two maids with her; and upon one of them she leaned (Esther 15 v.5-6) Esther. King Ahasuerus, of Persia sought a new queen who was to be the…
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11 Paintings, Olympian deities in classical Hellenic Mythology, by the Old Masters, with footnotes #9
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882 PANDORA, c. 1869 Model: Jane Burden Morris Faringdon Collection Trust, Buxted Park The Titan Prometheus was once assigned the task of creating the race of man. He afterwards grew displeased with the mean lot imposed on them by the gods and so stole fire from heaven. Zeus was angered and commanded…
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11 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 39
Antonio Badile, VERONA 1518-1560 SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON Oil on canvas 104 1/8 by 59 in.; 264.3 by 149.7 cm. Private Collection 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…
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13 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 37
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Botticelli, and Studio, FLORENCE 1445 – 1510 THE MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST oil on panel, a tondo diameter: 34 1/4 in.; 87 cm. This tondo by Sandro Botticelli likely dates to the second half of the 1480s, when the artist had returned to Florence from Rome. The…
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