Category: Religious Art
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Bartholomeus Douven’s Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #208
Sold for 16,250 EUR in March 2015 Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is named more than…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretation of the Bible, Jan Saudek’s Black Cup, with Footnotes – 14 B
Sold for 2,800 PLN in November 2017 Black Cup. For the church, the cup has come to represent the central events of Christianity, the death and resurrection of Christ. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ returns to the fundamental meaning of the cup as a representative of fate. In his prayer, the cup symbolizes the pain, degradation, and…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Abraham Janssens I’s Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #206
One of a series of half-length, figural compositions undertaken by Abraham Janssens in the 1620s, this painting of the Penitent Magdalen was intended for a private patron. Its owner would have savored the visual opulence of the pensive saint surrounded by jewels, silks, fruit, and a golden ointment jar, while also understanding the somber skull…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretation of the bible, Ramon Martinez’s dark crucifix, with Footnotes #54
The crucifixion darkness is an episode in three of the canonical gospels in which the sky becomes dark in daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus for roughly three hours. Most ancient and medieval Christian writers treated this as a miracle, and believed it to be one of the few episodes from the New Testament which were…
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66 Paintings – RELIGIOUS ART BY THE OLD MASTER PAINTERS – Paintings from the Bible, with footnotes
Artists included: Ángel Zárraga, Marten de Vos, Artus Wolfaerts, Jacopo Zanguidi, Jacob de Backer, Gerrit van Honthorst, Francesco Guarino da Solofra, Francesco Guarino, The Master of the Parrot, Antwerp School, Manuel Lopez Vazquez, Anton Kern, Pere Lembrí, Valencian School, Caravaggio, Anton Raphael Mengs, School of Toledo, Spanish School, Pedro Orrente, Francisco Camilo, Bolognese School, Northern…
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05 Works, Interpretation of the bible, September 8th. is The Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, with Footnotes #208
According to the story found in the Book of James, or Protevangelion book, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, were childless for many years. They remained faithful to God, but their prayers for a child were unanswered… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Karl Ferdinand Sohn’s Atoning Magdalene, with Footnotes #205
Estimated for €9,000 EUR – €10,000 EUR in May 2015 Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Henry Le Jeune’s Thy Will be Done, with Footnotes #201
Sold for GBP 8,820 in Jul 2022 This depiction of the Agony in the Garden, on the Mount of Olives, in which, between the Last Supper and his arrest, Christ retired to pray. ‘Agony’ in this context derives from the Greek meaning a contest, and Le Jeune, through juxtaposing the solitary figure of Christ against the…
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29 Photographs, CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS ART – Photography from the Bible, with footnotes #3
How can it be represented Christ today? How can his life, his actions and his teachings to be communicated through modern means, words we know and that can instill a sense of immediacy? In other words, how can you convey that sense of eternity as it is contained in the words of the Gospel: “I…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, with Footnotes #197
According to tradition, Saint Luke created the first portraits of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus from life, making him the patron saint of painters. Here, in one of the most important Renaissance paintings in North America, Rogier van der Weyden introduces an unprecedented sense of naturalism, grounding a sacred episode in everyday experience. More…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Follower of Hieronymus Bosch ‘s The Garden of Earthly Delights – Hell, with Footnotes #196
Sold for GBP 112,500 in Jul 2022 Hieronymus Bosch’s extraordinary pictorial vocabulary had a widely-felt impact on the visual arts that endured for decades after his death in 1516. His vividly imagined, tormented hellscapes were extensively reproduced and reworked by painters working in the Netherlands throughout the sixteenth century, and the ubiquity of his imagery was…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Maxwell Ashby Armfield’s Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, with Footnotes #196
Estimate for GBP 15,000 – GBP 25,000 in Jul 2022 Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After…
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