Tag: Bible
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01 Religious Icon, St. Cajetan, from Spanish Colonial Mexico, with footnotes #38
Sold for $1,400 USD in September 2022Spanish Colonial, Mexico, 19th century. A large Spanish Colonial painting on canvas depicting Saint Cajetan (San Cayetano). He wears the black robe of his order and a luxurious bejeweled chain thought to symbolize either his rejection of wealth since the Theatines took vows of poverty, his aristocratic upbringing as Count…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Friedrich Sturm’s The Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #203
Sold for 2,000 GBP in November 2017 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 than…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Caravaggio’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, with Footnotes #204
In his dramatic 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 Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in…
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05 works, Today, September 4th, is St. Charitina of Amisus’s day, her story illustrated #247
St. Charitina of Amisus (also known as Charitina of Rome), was a virgin from Asia Minor, distinguished by strict chastity and piety… Please follow link for full post
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11 works, Today, September 1st, is Simeon Stylites’ day, his story illustrated #244
Simeon Stylites was a Syriac ascetic saint who achieved notability for living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo. The Greek word style means “pillar”. He is known formally as Simeon Stylites the Elder… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Francesco Cairo’s The Martyrdom of Saint Euphemia, with Footnotes #200
Estimated for 15,000 – 20,000 GBP on July 2023Euphemia, known as the All-praised in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is a Christian saint, who was martyred for her faith in 303 AD. According to Christian tradition, this occurred at Chalcedon. According to tradition, Euphemia was arrested for refusing to offer sacrifices to Ares. She was thrown ‘into a…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Rutilio Manetti and Domenico Manetti’s Saint Sebastian and the Pious Women, with Footnotes #199
Estimated for 60,000 – 80,000 GBP in July 2022 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 a field and there to be bound to a stake so…
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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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