Tag: Classical
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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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OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 116
In Catholic teaching, the Immaculate Conception refers to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Because she was the vessel that would bear the Son of God, she had to be without sin. Her conception was “immaculate” in the sense that her soul never had the stain of original sin that everyone else is born with. The…
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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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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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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 20, is Saint St. Dominic de Silos ‘s Day, With Footnotes – 150
Bartolomé Bermejo, (1440–1500) Santo Domingo de Silos enthroned as bishop, between circa 1474 and circa 1477 Oil on panel Height: 242 cm (95.2 ″); Width: 130 cm (51.1 ″) Museo del Prado Dominic of Silos, O.S.B., (Spanish: Santo Domingo de Silos) (1000 – December 20, 1073) was born at Canas de Navarre, on the Spanish side…
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02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 19, is Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum’s Day, With Footnotes – 149
Corrado Giaquinto Martyrdom of Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abacus, circa 1750 Oil on canvas Height: 118 cm (46.46 in.), Width: 167 cm (65.75 in.) Musee Fesch – Ajaccio (France) Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum (died 270) were, according to their largely legendary passio of the 6th century, four saints of the same family (a…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 16, is Pope Marcellus I’s Day, With Footnotes – 148
Pope Marcellus I Pope Marcellus I (6 January 255–16 January 309) was the Bishop of Rome or Pope from May or June 308 to his death in 309. He succeeded Pope Marcellinus after a considerable interval. Under Maxentius, he was banished from Rome in 309, on account of the tumult caused by the severity of the…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 12, is The Virgin of Guadalupe’s Day, With Footnotes – 145
Unknown artistVirgin of Guadalupe, circa 1700Oil on canvasIndianapolis Museum of Art The Virgin of Guadalupe featuring a novelty crown on the Virgin’s head, later removed on 23 February 1888. A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by the Blessed Virgin Mary. The figure is often named after the town where it is reported, or…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 11, is Pope Damasus’ Day, With Footnotes – 144
Pope Damasus I Pope Damasus I (c. 305 – 11 December 384) was Supreme Pontiff from 366 to 384. He was a very learned man, well versed in the Scriptures. He commissioned St. Jerome to complete the translation of the Bible into the Latin language. Shortly after his reign the 72 books of the Bible, hitherto scattered in…
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Conception by St. Anna 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 8, is the day of Conception by St. Anna, With Footnotes – 140
Forefeast of the Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos (Mary) Joachim and Anna had lived together in marriage for fifty years, and yet had remained barren. They lived devoutly and quietly, and of all their income they spent one third on themselves, distributed one third to the poor and gave the other…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 7, is St Ambrose’s day, With Footnotes – 139
Camillo Procaccini (1561–1629) St Ambrose Stopping Theodosius, second half of 16th centuryOil on canvasBasilica of Sant’Ambrogio Theodosius had, in his privileged youth, been military governor of Moesia. But after a charge of cowardice and his father’s execution for conspiracy he had languished in enforced early retirement in Spain. Yet when disaster hit the Roman world at…
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Jaroslav Čermák, St. Nicholas 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 6, is St. Nicholas’ day, With Footnotes – 138
Jaroslav Čermák, (1831 – 1878)St. Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek city of Myra in Asia Minor during the time of the Roman Empire. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers,…
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