Tag: Bible
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Jacques du Broeucq, Charity 01 Carving, 15 & 16th Century Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible!; With Footnotes – 8c
Roman Charity is the exemplary story of a woman, Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her father, Cimon, after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. She is found out by a jailer, but her act of selflessness impresses officials and wins her father’s release. The story is recorded by the ancient Roman historian Valerius Maximus,…
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VIRGIN OF THE ANNUNCIATION 01 Carving, 15 & 16th Century Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible!; With Footnotes – 8b
The Annunciation referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation. Gabriel…
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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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Sistine Madonna 02 Works, CONTEMPORARY & Old Master Interpretations of the Bible! With Footnotes – 26
“This painting is inspired by covers of magazines. I wanted to mix old and new and used a detail of “Sistine Madonna”, painted by the famous painter Raphael in 1514 (Below). This caracter is named saint Barbara. She’s not the main caracter of the original painting but her face is beautiful and famous. She could have…
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Tintoretto, Recovery of the corpse of St. Mark 02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 119
Tommaso Rangone, “grand guardian” of the Scuola di San Marco in Venice, commissioned Tintoretto in 1562 to paint a cycle depicting episodes associated with the saint, which the artist had completed by 1566. The cycle of large canvases, one of which is the Pinacoteca’s Finding of the Body of Saint Mark, recounted not only the…
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Italian School 18th century, Rebecca at the Well 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 120
Abraham went about finding a wife for his son Isaac. He commanded his servant to journey to his birthplace of Aram Naharaim to select a bride from his own family, rather than engage Isaac to a local Canaanite girl. Abraham sent along expensive jewelry, clothing and dainties as gifts to the bride and her family. …
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Ellis Christopher, Salome 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 25
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 Philip’s death in 34 AD she married Aristobulus of Chalcis…
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Lynda Diamond, Adam Eve and Dolly 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27
“I painted this painting during the time Dolly the sheep was cloned. I thought it made for interesting subject matter. This painting is special because I made all my own paints for this painting by hand, making the colours more vivid than usual. Adam Eve and Dolly took one year to paint while living in…
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José de Ribera, Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 112
The painting the almost naked apostle Bartholomew looks at us helplessly, while a sadistic drunken executioner delightedly flays him. On the ground, a classical sculpture, which has been identified as the god Baldach, and in the background two priests, their heads covered, are witnesses to the torture. More on this painting Bartholomew the Apostle was one of…
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, MARY MAGDALEN IN ECSTASY 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 117
In his representation of the saint, Caravaggio has stripped away her traditional symbols such as the skull and the hourglass, and tells her story as a triad of intensely emotive contrasts: red, white and black. More on this painting According to a legend popular in Caravaggio’s time, after Christ’s death his faithful female disciple Mary of Magdala…
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José de Ribera, Saint Sebastian Tended by the Holy Women 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 112
In the large canvas, the figure of the saint lies naked on the ground, one arm still suspended from the tree of martyrdom. The holy women Irene and Lucilla tend the saint, one of them removing the arrows and the other holding the jar of ointment. Two little angels bearing the crown and the palm…
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Neapolitan School, THE PENITENT MAGDALEN 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 118
Penitent Magdalen refers to a post-biblical period in the life of Mary Magdalen. This ‘Magdalen’ bears the hallmarks of Neapolitan painting during that period. The dramatic expression, emphatic naturalism, and intense chiaroscuro derive from the profound influence of Caravaggio (1571–1610), who spent a number of his later years in the port city. More on this painting The…
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Nyuka Anaïs Laurent, Well of Souls 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 34
The Well of Souls is a partly natural, partly man-made cave located inside the Foundation Stone under the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. The name “Well of Souls” derives from a medieval Islamic legend that at this place the spirits of the dead can be heard awaiting Judgment Day. The site has never been…
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SAINT RAPHAEL THE ARCHANGEL 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 115
Raphael is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Raphael performs all manners of healing according to all Abrahamic religions. Medieval French rabbi Rashi views Raphael as being one of the three angels that appeared to Abraham in the oak grove of Mamre in the Book of Genesis. Raphael is also mentioned in the Book of…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 5th, is Saint Agatha of Sicily’s Day, With Footnotes – 36
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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Apollonio di GIOVANNI, The Virgin and Child between Saint Francis and Saint Michael01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 110
There remains a hint of the Gothic spirit of the Gothic in the dancing attitude of Saint Michael and the somewhat manicured gesture of his left hand, while the corpulence of the Virgin, that of the Child, the treatment in perspective of his halo testify to Apollonio’s sensitivity to the new Renaissance language. To these…
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Adriaen Isenbrant, The Stigmatisation of Saint Francis 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 109
The Stigmatisation of Saint Francis. Two years before the great Saint Francis of Assisi died, and when he was forty-two years old — one year after he had built the first crib in honor of Our Lord — he went off to a lonely mountain called Mount Alvernia, to prepare himself by forty days of fasting…
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Tatyana Rimskaya Holding a martyr’s cross Saint Tatiana was a Christian martyr in 3rd-century Rome during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus. She was a deaconess of the early church. According to legend, she was the daughter of a Roman civil servant who was secretly Christian, and raised his daughter in the faith. This was dangerous,…
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Ramon Martinez, Female Christ 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27
Ramon Martinez Female Christ Photography Private collection Female Christ is first and foremost, an artistic and experimental project. As we do not necessarily want to recreate the reality due to historical purposes, after all this is simply a message which must prevail. When you see the suffering and the agony of a woman on the cross,…
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Saint Agatha, patron saint of the breast cancer 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 26
Unknown Saint Agatha, patron saint of the breast cancer Photography Private collection Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD – 251 AD) is a Christian saint and virgin martyr. Agatha was born at Catania or Palermo, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251. She is one of seven women, who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary,…
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