Tag: Bible
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Artus Wolffort’s Christ at the Pool of Bethesda, with Footnotes #198
Sold for GBP 70,100 in Apr 2008 The Pool of Bethesda is a pool in Jerusalem known from the New Testament account of Jesus miraculously healing a paralysed man, from the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John, where it is described as being near the Sheep Gate, surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes. It is now…
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01 Religious Icon, Andrei Rublev’s Trinity, with footnotes #37
The Trinity was painted on a vertically aligned board. It depicts three angels sitting at a table. On the table, there is a cup containing the head of a calf. In the background, Rublev painted a house (supposedly Abraham’s house), a tree (the Oak of Mamre), and a mountain (Mount Moriah). The figures of angels are…
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01 Religious Icon, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, with footnotes #38
The Ladder of Divine Ascent or The Ladder of Paradise. A 12th-century icon described by John Climacus. Monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai. St John Climacus described the Christian life as a ladder with thirty rungs. The monks are tempted by demons and encouraged by angels, while Christ welcomes them at the summit. More on this…
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01 Religious Icon, The Meister von Meßkirch’s St. Benedict in Prayer, with footnotes #35
The image shows St. Benedict praying in a cave on Mount Subasio which he fled to to escape the debauchery associated with higher education in Rome. He led a very austere life, is known for his power against demons, and is considered the Father of Western Monasticism. More on this icon Saint Benedict founded twelve communities for…
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01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of the holy empress Saint Alexandra, with footnotes #35
The Saint shown standing at full length, richly dressed in gem- and pearl-studded clothing and crown, and holding a cross, with Christ shown in the clouds above her Saint Alexandra was the reputed wife of Emperor Diocletian, from 284 until his abdication in 305, and secretly converted to Christianity. Jacobus de Voragine listing her name as “Alexandria”…
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01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of Christ Pantocrator, with footnotes #34
In Christian iconography, Christ Pantocrator is a specific depiction of Christ. Pantocrator or Pantokrator, usually translated as “Almighty” or “all-powerful”, is derived from one of many names of God in Judaism. The Pantokrator, largely an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic theological conception, is less common under that name in Western (Roman) Catholicism and largely unknown to most…
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11 Works, RELIGIOUS ART — CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! Vincent Serbin’s Toward Omega, with Footnotes — 24
Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, and has come to signify an “ending” of sorts — a finality. Vincent Serbin has used it here to describe his metaphysical meditations of the nature of time as it relates to our existence and ability to function in the present moment, a confluence of past and future……
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Gabriel Joseph Marie Augustin Ferrier’s Scenes from The Spanish Inquisition, With Footnotes #134
Sold for 6,930 USD in May 2022 This half-length Mary Magdalene depicted as a voluptuous female nude is characteristic of the seventeenth-century Florentine painter Simone Pignoni and artists in his orbit. The Saint’s windswept locks and swirling red drapery heighten the composition’s sense of drama and imbue the image with an effect of swift, graceful movement.…
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01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of the Kazan Mother of God with gilded silver oklad, with footnotes #33
Sold for 17,500 USD on April 2014Our Lady of Kazan, also called Mother-of-God of Kazan, was a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian Orthodox Church, representing the Virgin Mary as the protector and patroness of the city of Kazan, and a palladium of all of Russia and Rus’, known as the Holy Protectress…
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13 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, Sandro Botticelli, with footnotes #28
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 — May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a…
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01 Religious Icon, St. Luke presenting the Mother of God with the first icon, with footnotes #32
The painted icon is covered with a metal cover, the borders with angels, set among floral garlands, raising up the image. The Apostle Luke is mostly known as one of the four Evangelists. In fact, he told us more than the other three about our Lord’s childhood, as well as about His mother Mary. It is…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s The Virgin and Child, With Footnotes #127
This painting was sold on 12 April 2022 for £3,187.50 The present lot is after Murillo’s original which now hangs at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. More on this painting The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word…
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01 Religious Icon, Russian Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir, with footnotes #31
The miraculous image given the title, Our Lady of Vladimir, is known as an Eleousa, the Greek word meaning, Mother of Tenderness. The Christ Child nestles tenderly close to his mother, he gazes at her and is so closely linked to her that his left arm embraces her fully. His right hand gently touches her left…
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01 Religious Icon, The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign, with footnotes #30
The surface is richly carved, gilded, and painted in imitation of an enameled silver cover and pearl robes.The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign is the term for a particular type of icon of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), facing the viewer directly, depicted either full length or half, with her hands raised in the orans…
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16 Paintings scenes from the Bible, by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Otto van Veen, Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Giovanni Lanfranco, The Caravaggisti, Joseph Heiss, Pietro Novelli and Jean Restout , with footnotes #26
In Christian theology the nativity marks the incarnation of Jesus as the second Adam, in fulfillment of the divine will of God, undoing the damage caused by the fall of the first man, Adam. The artistic depiction of the nativity has been a major subject for Christian artists since the 4th century. Since the 13th…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Jan Saudek’s Deep Devotion of Veronika, with Footnotes – #51
Jan Saudek ‘s compositions evoke the dramatic tableaus of early photography, with subjects artificially posed in front of the viewer. For many years, Saudek’s work remained underground in Prague as it would have garnered the attention of the secret police for its depiction of nudity and overt eroticism; at the time. His work has been…
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01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of the Deesis, with footnotes #29
In the Deesis, the Pantocrator is in the center, to his right is the Mother of God in an attitude of intercession: she represents the Church, brings back to Christ the prayer of humanity and covers it with her maternal protection. After the Virgin, the Baptist has the place of honor next to Christ, to…
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86 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – 58 Old Master Artists Portray The Life of Abraham, with footnotes, #10
Terah (Azar, in Arabic) the tenth in descent from Noah (Nuh), begat three sons, according to the Bible’s internal chronology, Abraham was born in the year 1948 from Creation (1813 BCE), Abram (Ibrahim ibn Azar), Nahor, and Haran. Haran begat Lot (who was thus Abram’s nephew), and died in his native city, Ur of the…
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28 Carvings, RELIGIOUS ART – 15, 16 & 17th Century Biblical Carvings from Bruges! With Footnotes – #3
Bruges is situated in the northeastern part of the West-Flanders province, not far from the North Sea. A Gallo-Roman settlement dates habitation back 2000 years. In the 9th century the city is mentioned in writing for the first time… Please follow link for full post
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01 Religious Icon, MOTHER OF GOD “MY SOUL MAGNIFIES THE LORD”, with footnotes #28
This icon with the Virgin enthroned in an oval reserve holding a book open to the words of the Magnificat in Cyrillic reading “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,” the silver oklad chased and repoussé with Neo-classical ornament, struck with mark of assayer Aleksei Vikhliaev, the Cyrillic…