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01 Religious Icon, The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign, with footnotes #30

May 11, 2023

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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…
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

May 7, 2023

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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…
01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Jan Saudek’s Deep Devotion of Veronika, with Footnotes – #51

May 2, 2023

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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…
01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of the Deesis, with footnotes #29

May 1, 2023

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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…
86 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – 58 Old Master Artists Portray The Life of Abraham, with footnotes, #10

Apr 17, 2023

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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…
28 Carvings, RELIGIOUS ART – 15, 16 & 17th Century Biblical Carvings from Bruges! With Footnotes – #3

Apr 11, 2023

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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
01 Religious Icon, MOTHER OF GOD “MY SOUL MAGNIFIES THE LORD”, with footnotes #28

Apr 5, 2023

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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…
01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Kasia Derwinska’s Prayer, with Footnotes – #51

Mar 18, 2023

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I talk to God but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy. She died by suicide in 1963. More on Sylvia Plath Kasia Derwinska…
01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Lidia Wylangowska’s Bohemian Angel, with Footnotes – #129

Mar 16, 2023

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An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies. In Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and Humanity. Other roles of angels include protecting and guiding human beings, and carrying out God’s tasks. More on Angels Lidia Wylangowska: “My…
01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Henri Fantin-Latour’s Stabat Mater, with Footnotes – 128

Mar 14, 2023

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The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ’s mother during his crucifixion. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III. The title comes from its first line, “Stabat Mater dolorosa”, which means “the sorrowful mother was standing”. The hymn is…
2 Religious Icons, Barnaba da Modena and Veneto-Cretan Icons of the Madonna and Child, with footnotes #27

Mar 11, 2023

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The panel, probably originally rectangular, was cut at the top following the profile of the moldings in relief. Central element of a polyptych. The Nursing Madonna, Virgo Lactans, or Madonna Lactans, is an iconography of the Madonna and Child in which the Virgin Mary is shown breastfeeding the infant Jesus. In Italian it is called…
04 Icons from the Bible, Mother of God Znamenie, Madonna del Parto, Christ is carrying our cross, Mother of God “Surety of sinners” and the Mandylio, with footnotes, #18

Mar 5, 2023

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The Icon of the Mother of God, named the “Sign” (“Znamenie”), shows the Most Holy Mother of God seated with prayerfully uplifted hands. On Her bosom, against the background of a circular shield (or sphere) — is the Divine Infant giving a blessing. The Mother of God, known under the name “Znamenie-Sign”, appeared in Rus’ during the…
01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Joel-Peter Witkin’s Ars Moriendi, with Footnotes – #50

Feb 28, 2023

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Joel-Peter Witkin is known for his grotesquely beautiful photographs that explore themes of death, religion, and the experience of being socially outcast. Witkin stages surrealistic scenes with cadavers, skeletons, and dismembered body parts so they recall Classical paintings and religious imagery. More on this work The Ars moriendi (“The Art of Dying”) are two related Latin texts…
05 Works, February 20th, is Saint Leo of Catania’s Day, With Footnotes – #50

Feb 20, 2023

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Icon with water-gilding on plywood. The wood has been prepared in heat and gilded with gold leaf 24K, in accordance with traditional Byzantine techniques. The icon has been painted with egg-tempera paints for best performance and endurance of colors used. The colors were chosen based on studies and analyses of older icons by renowned iconographers,…
01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Jean Jansem’s Lot and his two daughters, with Footnotes – 44

Feb 13, 2023

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Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30-38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as…
01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Biblel, by Roberto Ferri, With Footnotes – #54

Feb 8, 2023

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Our Prayer Against Evil – Deliver us From Evil-The original language of this passage has the article “the”-i.e. “deliver us from the evil”-the Evil One or Satan. The meaning here is, “deliver us from his power, his snares, his arts, his temptations.” Satan is supposed to be the great parent of evil, and to be delivered…
01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Giacinto Brandi’s Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, with Footnotes – #131

Feb 7, 2023

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Gethsemane is an urban garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. In Christianity, it is the place where Jesus underwent the agony in the garden and was arrested the night before his crucifixion. Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane refers to the events in the life of Jesus as recorded in the…
07 Icons, RELIGIOUS ART – Icons from the 14 and 15 Centuries, with footnotes – 5

Feb 3, 2023

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The arrangement and combination of subjects in this devotional triptych were common throughout the Florentine Trecento and early Quattrocento, a tried and tested formula which found its origin in Bernardo Daddi’s Bigallo Triptych of 1333, in the Museo del Bigallo, Florence. The left wing depicts the Nativity; the right wing shows the Crucifixion. The pinnacles…
1 Religious Icon, 19th C. St. John the Baptist & Head, with footnotes #24

Jan 22, 2023

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A winged St. John the Baptist holding a scroll as well as his severed head on a platter, with God the Father above. The wings occupy a large part of the composition and bestow John the Baptist’s body with an otherworldly, celestial dimension. The artist painstakingly delineated the feathered wings in various neutral earthtones with…
01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations by The Master of the Figdor St Eustache, With Footnotes # 70 A

Jan 19, 2023

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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 that archers from Mauritania would shoot arrows…