Tag: Bible
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 43e
Solomon Joseph Solomon, R.A., P.R.B.A. (1860-1927) Eve, c. 1908 oil on canvas 122 x 56 in. (310 x 142 cm.) Private collection Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 43d
Colijn de Coter Fons Vitae (Fountain of Life), circa 1515-1517 Oil over oak wood. 267 x 210 cm Museu da Misericórdia do Porto, Portugal The theme of Fons Pietatis, central in this painting, was wide spread in medieval Northern and Central Europe, linked with the “Last Judgment”. It is also associated to the worship of “Holy…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 43c
Félicien Rops, (1833–1898) The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1878) Pastel and gouache on paper 73.8 × 54.3 cm Cabinet des estampes, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Brussels. Bound to the cross in Saint Anthony’s tempting vision is a visibly voluptuous woman, the word EROS replacing the normal initialism of INRI (Jesus of Nazareth, the King of…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 43b
Domenico Morelli, (1823–1901) The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1878) Oil on canvas 137 × 225 cm, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in history of art and literature, concerning the supernatural temptation reportedly faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert. Anthony’s temptation…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 43a
CIMA da Conegliano, (b. ca. 1459, Conegliano, d. 1517/18, Conegliano) St Helena, c. 1495 Oil on panel 40 x 32 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Helena, St. Helena, or St. Helen ( c. 250 – c. 330), was a Greek native from the Greek city of Drepana in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor (Turkey). She…
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08 Painting by The Old Masters, Michael Pacher, Altarpiece of the Church Fathers. 30
Michael Pacher, (1430–1498) Altarpiece of the Church Fathers, c. 1471-1475 Fathers of the Church: Jerome , Augustine , Gregory , Ambrose Color on wood 103 × 91 cm (40.6 × 35.8 in) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany The picture shows the internal panels of the Altarpiece of the Doctors of the Church: Sts Augustine and Gregory on the…
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03 Carvings, Biblical Carvings & Sculpture from Byzantium With Footnotes 6
Byzantine Empire, ca. 7th century CE. This is a 14k+ gold pendant inlaid with an inscribed shell intaglio featuring a religious figure and writing. Size: 0.9″ W x 1.2″ H (2.3 cm x 3 cm), weighing 4 grams. Byzantine Empire, ca. 1000 CE. An incredibly detailed and lifelike hand with fine details of joints and fingernails.…
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16 Etching by REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN,
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN 1606 – 1669 SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CLOAK WITH A FALLING COLLAR: BUST (BARTSCH, HOLLSTEIN 15; NEW HOLLSTEIN 98W; HIND 63) Etching with engraving and drypoint, circa 1631, a good impression of this scarce print, the rare second state (of five), a previously unrecorded state between New Hollstein’s fourth and fifth state (of ten),…
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A Pictorial History of Jerusalem
A city called Rušalim in the Execration texts of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (19th century BCE) is identified as Jerusalem. Jerusalem was then called Urušalim in the Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba (1330s BCE). The name “Jerusalem” is variously etymologized to mean “foundation of the god Shalem“, the original tutelary deity of the city. The ambitious Ophel excavation in Jerusalem has produced many finds, but precious little before the tenth century BC Ceramic evidence…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible!, With Footnotes – 95
Giovanni Biliverti, (1585–1644) The Archangel Raphael Refusing Tobias’s Gift, c. 1612 Oil on canvas Height: 175 cm (68.9 in). Width: 146 cm (57.5 in). Pitti Palace The subject comes from the Book of Tobit , one of the Apocryphal books in the Old Testament, and shows the final scene in the story of how Tobit, a…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! from the SPANISH GOLDEN AGE, With Footnotes – 86
Luis Tristán De Escamilla The Penitent Magdalene Private collection As the preeminent painter of his generation in Toledo, Tristán achieved an expressive intensity in his art that reconciled the extreme mannerism of El Greco, in whose workshop he had trained, with the strong naturalism of seventeenth-century tenebrist painting. The Penitent Magdalene is among the best…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 18
Julian Schnabel, Born in 1951, 1975–1979. St. Sebastian Oil, wax, modelling paste on canvas 281.9 x 167.6 cm Oko Gallery Saint Sebastian (died c. 288 AD) was an early Christian saint and martyr. Sebastian had prudently concealed his faith, but in 286 was detected. Diocletian reproached him for his betrayal, and he commanded him to be led to…
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02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 17
JODY CARIOLANO, (American/Texas b. 1951) Pieta Oil and mixed media on canvas, a diptych 59 3/4″ x 48″ Private Collection 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…
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Bible, Christ, Jesus, Joan Maçip Navarro, Juan de Juanes, mythology, religion, RELIGIOUS ART, THE CRUCIFIXION, Zaidan,
Joan Maçip Navarro, Called Juan De Juanes The Crucifixion. Juan de Juanes was the dominant artistic personality working in Valencia during the mid-sixteenth century and this representation of the Crucifixion was painted in 1578, the year before his death. A late masterpiece by Juanes, the present work is precisely the type of painting that earned…
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