Tag: Ancient
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09 Works, Today, January 31st, is Saints Cyrus and John’s Day, With Footnotes — 31
Saints Cyrus and John are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they are supposed to have healed the sick free of charge… Please follow link for full post
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02 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Sir Peter Paul Rubens and Pieter Bruegel the elder’s Christ and the woman taken in adultery, with footnotes #189
Watched by his disciples, Christ writes on the ground that he who is free of sin should cast the first stone at an adulterous woman. This biblical story challenged hypocrisy as well as demonstrating the virtue of mercy… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Florentine School’s Mary Magdalene , with footnotes #192
Sold for $3,200 USD in Feb 2023 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…
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Valentin de Boulogne’s Christ crowned with thorns, with footnotes #191
Valentin focuses the scene on the interplay of the three figures, all done dal naturale, or from life. The compact drama transpires along a sweeping diagonal, accentuating the image’s theatrical tension. At left, an elaborately dressed young soldier kneels before Christ. Mere inches separate their faces, which are almost a study in opposites. The youth’s…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Harry Morley’s A Wayside Madonna, with Footnotes – #53
A small group of women stand behind the foreground sitter, their silent attitudes seeming to turn in judgement against her. The gate to her village beyond is shut, symbolising the refusal of passage to the mother (Madonna) to her home; Palestine! Harry Morley was born in Leicester, England on 5 April 1881 and studied architecture at…
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Giampietrino’s Madonna nursing the Christ Child with Saint Anne, with footnotes #188
Sold for 252,000 USD in January 2023 Sitting on a stone parapet, the Virgin, in the pose of a Madonna lactans, nurses the infant Jesus as her own mother stands behind. The two women offer contrasting emotional responses to Christ’s ultimate fate: Saint Anne, shown with wizened features, stares stoically into the distance, while the Madonna diverts…
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01 Limestone Sculpture, RELIGIOUS ART, French, Normandy, Virgin and Child – with footnotes #187
Sold for 113,400 USD in January 2022This seated Virgin holds a lily-scepter in her proper left hand and supports the Christ Child with her right. She wears a belted gown under an open mantle, the edges of which are decorated with cavities that would have held jewels made from colored glass. The Christ Child stands on…
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06 works, Today, December 27th, is Joseph the Betrothed’s day, his story, illustrated #359
The holy and righteous Joseph the Betrothed, also referred to as Joseph of Nazareth, was the foster-father of Jesus Christ. Not much is known of Joseph… Please follow link for full post
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19 Works, December 28th. is Alessandro Rosi’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #256
Alessandro Rosi (28 December 1627 in Rovezzano — 19 April 1697 in Florence) was an Italian artist, working during the Baroque period… Please follow link for full post
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51 Paintings, Interpretation of the bible by Artists of 16th and 17th Centuries, with footnotes
Please find a detailed list of 51 paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries that interpret biblical themes, with brief descriptions of their biblical interpretations and relevant artists… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Franz von Stuck’s THE DRAGON SLAYER, With Footnotes – #135
Sold for 605,000 GBP in May 2015 The Dragon Slayer is a particularly charged rendition of an age-old theme. Although most of Stuck’s paintings depict scenes from the Antique or the Bible, neither the title The Dragon Slayer nor the iconography reveal the exact story behind the present work. Stuck’s fascination with Greek legends suggests the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Marc Chagall’s Anne Invoque l’Eternel, with Footnotes – #218
Anna (distinguished as Anna the Prophetess), is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in Luke 2:36–38 during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. “There was also a…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Queen Mary Psalter, Twelve year old Christ in the temple, with Footnotes – #206
The Finding in the Temple, also called Christ among the Doctors or the Disputation (the usual names in art), was an episode in the early life of Jesus depicted in chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke. It is the only event of the later childhood of Jesus mentioned in a gospel. Jesus at the age of…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Follower of Quentin Massys’ The Virgin and Child with a still life on a ledge, with Footnotes – #204
Estimate for 10,000 – 15,000 GBP in Dec 2022 The composition for this painting is taken from Quentin Massys’s Virgin and Child outdoors dated to about 1526 and preserved in the Detroit Institute of Arts.1 In this particular version, a landscape has been substituted for a warm golden-brown background which pigment analysis has shown to…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Florentine School’s the Virgin’s Annunciate, with Footnotes – #197
Sold for £9,562.50 in 2022 The composition of the present panel is based on the figure of the Virgin from the famous Annunciation of the mid 13th century in the church of Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Painted by a follower of Giotto, it is said that it was completed by a monk called Bartolomeo with the…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART, Interpretation of the bible, Adriaen van der Werff’s Entombment, With Footnotes – #138
After Christ’s crucifixion, Matthew writes: ‘As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Rembrandt’s The Great Deposition from the Cross — with footnotes #197
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The…
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08 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of The Bible, William Oxer’s The Grieving Magdalene, with footnotes #46
Mary Magdalene was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection… Please follow link for full post Art,Paintings,warrior,Fine Art,biography,History,Mary Magdalene,mythology,religion,RELIGIOUSART,Zaidan,William Oxer,Ancient,footnotes, #Icon #Bible #biography #History #Jesus #mythology #Paintings #religionart #Saints #Zaidan #footnote #fineart #Calvary #Christ #warrior
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Ermanno Stroiffi’s Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, With Footnotes – #136
Estimated for €8,000 – €12,000 in November 2022 The Bible states that Elijah is a Tishbite from Gilead, who visited King Ahab to give him a message from God that there would be no rain in the land until he declared it. In order to avoid the wrath of the king, God told Elijah to hide by the Brook…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Italian School’s Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael, with Footnotes – #220
Sold for $1,000 USD in May 2022 Hagar is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis Chapter 16. She was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, who gave her to Abraham “to wife” to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham’s firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. After Sarah gave birth to…
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