Category: Religious Art
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Bernardino di Mariotto dello Stagno’s Virgin and Child, with Footnotes #194
Sold for 214,200 GBP in July 2022 Here, a curtain opens to reveal the Virgin and Child; the edges are left open to give a sense of expanse into a distant landscape beyond. The path to the left of the composition leads past the penitent Saint Jerome towards a rare depiction of an early Christian tomb,…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Master of Alcira’s Saint Michael the Archangel, with Footnotes #193
Michael is mentioned three times in the Book of Daniel, once as a “great prince who stands up for the children of your people”. The idea that Michael was the advocate of the Jews became so prevalent that, in spite of the rabbinical prohibition against appealing to angels as intermediaries between God and his people,…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina’s Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with Footnotes #192
Saint Catherine of Alexandria is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar, who became a Christian around the age of fourteen, and converted hundreds of people…
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22 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – 15 & 16th Century Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! With Footnotes
Sold for £1,250 in November 2015 Emile-André Boisseau, (1842–1923) was a French sculptor. A pupil of Auguste Dumont and Jean-Marie Bonnassieux at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, h. His works include a statue of Pierre Beaumarchais on the facade of Paris’ City Hall… Please follow link for full post
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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 46
In the sixteenth century when Spain became a world power with vast possessions and sources of wealth in the New World, as well as possessions dotted about Europe, it might have been expected that a vigorous national school of painting would emerge, transforming the somewhat tentative or imitative character that painting in Spain had shown…
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02 Works, Interpretation of the bible, Caravaggio’s Christ Crowned with Thorns, with Footnotes #191
The subject of the Crowning of Thorns was well suited to interpretation by Caravaggesque painters, whose preference for intense staging and dramatic lighting matched its harsh realism… Please follow link for full post
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18 Paintings, Stories from the Bible, as interpreted by Rosso Fiorentino, Pietro della Vecchia, Luca Giordano, Johann Carl Loth, Francesco Ruschi, Valentin de Boulogne, Vincente Macip, Vincente Macip, Martin Schongauer, Barend van Orley, Daniele da Volterra, Francesco Raibolini, Andrea Meldolla, Pietro Testa and Pieter Brueghel, with footnotes #37
The Pietà is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of Christ found in cycles of the Life of Christ. When Christ and the Virgin are…
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02 Works, Interpretation of the bible, The Dead Christ supported by an Angel, with Footnotes #190
An interpretation of a subject often described as the Cristo passo – a theme explored in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Venetian representations by Bellini, Antonello da Messina, Cima da Conegliano and others… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Federico Ferrario’s Mary and St. Peter Consoling Each Other, with Footnotes #188
The episode of the painting refers to the triple denial in which St. Peter, according to the canonical Gospels, three times rejected the accusations of being a follower of Jesus. After this denial, the synoptic gospels report the repentance of Peter, often depicted while crying, but in our canvas, he is in the presence of…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jacob de Backer’s Allegory of Christian patience, with Footnotes #187
A Naked, young woman in a half-sitting position, leaning against a rock to which she is chained. Head and eyes raised to the heavens, in her left hand she is holding a crucifix. A putto with a laurel wreath in her left hand and a palm branch in her right hand flies over her head.…
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38 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Artists’ interpretation of Lot and His Daughters over the decades, with Footnotes – #136
Lot and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Carlo Bononi’s The Martyrdom of Saint Cristina, with Footnotes – #185
Estimated for €9,000 EUR – €11,000 EUR in June 11, 2022Saint Christina of Bolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great Martyr, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed at her tomb have shown that she…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Gustave Vanaise’s Magdalene in Christ’s tomb, with Footnotes #184
Sold for 10,080 EUR in June 2022 Mary Magdalene went to the tomb. An earthquake occurred and an angel dressed in white descended from Heaven and rolled aside the stone as the women were watching.Vanaise moved to Paris in August 1878. He spent two years there and painted his first large history paintings, which he began…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Mahmoud Said’s Eid al-Adha, with Footnotes #25
Eid al-Adha, a Muslim festival, marking the culmination of the hajj (pilgrimage) rites at Minā, Saudi Arabia. Eid al-Adha is distinguished by the performance of communal prayer at daybreak on its first day. It begins on the 10th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting Interpretation of the bible, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi’s The Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #182
Sold for USD 226,800 in un 2022 A sinner, perhaps a courtesan, Mary Magdalen was a witness of Christ who renounced the pleasures of the flesh for a life of penance and contemplation. Penitent Magdalene or Penitent Magdalen refers to a post-biblical period in the life of Mary Magdalene, according to medieval legend. According to the tenets of the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Flemish school’s Pietà, with Footnotes #181
The Pietà is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of Christ found in cycles of the Life of Christ. When Christ and the Virgin are…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Pierre-André Brouillet’s Suzanne (Susannah and the Elders), With Footnotes – #132
Sold for USD 96,000 in Oct 2005In this painting, Brouillet restages the Old Testament narrative of Susannah and the Elders at the Moulin Rouge and populates the scene with contemporary characters. Unlike the biblical Susannah, besieged by two leering older men while bathing outdoors, this stylishly attired and self-possessed Suzanne is propositioned by two elegantly dressed gentlemen…
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