Tag: CONTEMPORARY
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Kim Byungkwan, The Descent I 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 36
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The…
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Jean Lambert-Rucki, Descent from the Cross 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – #39
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The Descent…
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Roy De Maistre, Our Lady of Walsingham 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Modern Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 39
Our Lady of Walsingham is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by Roman Catholics and Anglicans associated with the Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches, a pious English noblewoman, in 1061 in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England. Lady Richeldis had a building structure named “The Holy House” built in Walsingham which later…
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07 Works, Today, February 23rd, is Saint Hieromartyr Polycarp’s Day, With Footnotes – 53
Hieromartyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (167) was born at Ephesus around the year 70. St Irenaeus of Lyons, his disciple, says that St Polycarp was ‘a disciple of the Apostles and acquainted with those who had seen the Lord.’ His parents died as martyrs, and he was given into the care of a devout lady named…
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04 Works, Today February 22th, is the Holy Martyrs at the gate of Eugenius at Constantinople’s Day, With Footnotes – #52
During the persecutions against Christians the relics of the holy martyrs were usually buried by believers in hidden places. So at Constantinople, near the gates and tower in the Eugenius quarter, the bodies of several martyrs were found. Their names remain unknown by the Church. When miracles of healing began to occur at this spot,…
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04 Works, Today, February 20th, is Saint Leo of Catania’s Day, With Footnotes – 50
Saint Leo of Catania, nicknamed the Thaumaturgus, also known as St Leo the Wonderworker in Sicily (May 703 or 709 – 20 February 789) lived at the time of the first persecutions of the holy icons. He was born in Ravenna to a noble family, and became bishop of his native city. Soon his reputation…
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06 Works, Today, February 15th, is Saints Jovita and Faustinus’ Day, With Footnotes – #46
Saints Jovita and Faustinus were said to be Christian martyrs under Hadrian. Their traditional date of death is 120. They are patron saints of Brescia. Tradition states that they were members of a noble family of Brescia in Lombardy (northern Italy). Jovinus, the older brother, was a preacher; Faustinus, a deacon. According to the tradition of…
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Giacinto Brandi, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – #131
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…
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Aloïse Corbaz; Adoration of the Mages 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 38
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold,…
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04 Works, Today, February 5th, is Saint Agatha of Sicily’s Day, With Footnotes – 36
Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 – 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school. He belongs both to the painting…
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03 Works, Today, February 4th, is Saint Isidore of Pelusium’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Isidore of Pelusium (b. 450) was born in Egypt to a prominent Alexandrian family. He became an ascetic, and moved to a mountain near the city of Pelusium, in the tradition of the Desert Fathers. His parents who saw to his education. They taught him the books of the church, and the Greek language in which he excelled. He was also…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 15, is St. Tatyana Rimskaya’s Day, With Footnotes – 15
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, and one day the jurist Ulpian…
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Titian, The Madonna and Child 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 129
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 Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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Renato Guttuso, The CCrucifixion 02 Works, 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 37
Crocifissione is the painting for which Renato Guttuso is best remembered. At the time it was derided by the clergy, who labelled Guttuso a “pictor diabolicus” (“a devilish painter”). The fascists also denounced it for depicting the horrors of war under a religious cover. Guttuso wrote in his diary: “it is the symbol of all those…
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Viet Ha Tran, Garden of Eden 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 46
The Garden of Eden, also called Paradise, is the biblical “garden of God” described in the Book of Genesis and the Book of Ezekiel. The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. The Garden of Eden is considered to be mythological by most scholars. Among those…
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Velasco Vitali, Dead Christ 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 36
Velasco Vitali (1960). His debut is marked by the encounter with Giovanni Testori and participation to the show Artists and Writers at Rotonda della Besana, Milan. In 2004 Electa published Velasco 20, a monograph on Giulio Giorello’s first twenty-two years of activity, with a contribution. Extramoenia (2004-2005) is an exhibition set up by the Sicily…
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David Driesbach; Rest on the Flight to Egypt 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 34
Rest on the Flight to Egypt. The scene is based not on any incident in the Bible itself, but on a body of tales or legends that had grown up in the early Middle Ages around the Bible story of the Holy Family fleeing into Egypt for refuge on being warned that Herod the Great was…
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Pieter van Lint; Virgin and Child 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 121
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 Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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William Baxter Closson; The Angel 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 30
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 William Baxter…
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Gustavo Aceves; The crucifixion of Jesus 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 29
The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 30 and 33. Jesus’ crucifixion is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles. Jesus was arrested and tried by the Sanhedrin, and then sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified by the Romans. Jesus was…
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