Tag: CONTEMPORARY
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Gabriel Macotela, La santa 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 28
Gabriel Macotela (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1954 -) La santa/ A saint, c. 1983 Oil, water and religious folk charm on wood 195 x 101.5 cm Private collection A saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God. Depending on the context and denomination, the term also retains its…
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ITALIAN SCHOOL, The Sanhedrin trial of Jesus 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 120
The present painting depicts Jesus after his arrest in Jerusalem and prior to his dispensation by Pontius Pilate. It is an event reported by all four canonical gospels of the New Testament. As can be seen, Jesus sits quietly and does not mount a defense, rarely responding to the accusations against him. The Jewish authorities…
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Sylwia Perczak, Dobry/ Good day 01 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 33
Sylwia Perczak, (b1977) graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Czestochowa in 2001. She commenced her degree at the painting studio of prof. Vincent Maszkowkiego. From 2005, she joined the Polish Association of Pastel in Nowy Sacz. She illustrates children’s books. More on Sylwia Perczak Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine…
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Master of the Female Half-Lengths, The Virgin and Child in a landscape 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 124
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 Kroll, Eve Has Fallen 01 Works CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 26
“Eve has fallen from grace upon the fruit of her own demise. She now rests upon the dark abyss of her soul. Despite her failings, the intrinsic natural beauty of form remains just as appealing.” Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic…
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Sylwia Perczak, Stay by me, 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 31
Sylwia Perczak, (b1977) graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Czestochowa in 2001. She commenced her degree at the painting studio of prof. Vincent Maszkowkiego. From 2005, she joined the Polish Association of Pastel in Nowy Sacz. She illustrates children’s books. More on Sylwia Perczak Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine…
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Edward Coley Burne-Jones; Days of Creation 06 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 114
The five surviving paintings are now in the collection of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The fourth day has been lost. The progressive days of the creation are personified by angels holding spheres in which each day’s act is represented, beginning with the separation of light and darkness and ending with Adam…
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Sylwia Perczak, You have a new message, c. 2017 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 32
Sylwia Perczak, (b1977) graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Czestochowa in 2001. She commenced her degree at the painting studio of prof. Vincent Maszkowkiego. From 2005, she joined the Polish Association of Pastel in Nowy Sacz. She illustrates children’s books. More on Sylwia Perczak Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine…
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Borys Fiodorowicz, Christmas, year 0002 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 29
Borys Fiodorowicz is the graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The artist comes from Ukraine but currently he lives and works near Cracow, Poland, where his closest entourage became a great source of inspiration. He took part in numerous individual and group exhibitions and charity auctions. His permanent exhibition can be seen in…
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Early Netherlandish School, The Holy Family 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 129
Early Netherlandish School, 16th Century The Holy Family Oil on panel 51.3 x 36.8 cm, Private collection The present Holy Family appears to be a free and ingenious variation of a painting by Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse (1478–1532) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. The as yet unidentified artist of the present work…
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Alfred Eisenstaedt, Dying Monk 01 Painting, 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 36
Alfred Eisenstaedt (American, 1898-1995). Born in 1898, Eisenstaedt and his family moved to Berlin when he was just a little boy. He began taking photographs as a young teenager. After serving with the German army during World War I, he returned to freelance photography, eventually working for the Associated Press in the late 1920s and early…
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Robert Combas, he Crusaders 01 Works CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 35
Robert Combas is a French painter and sculptor, born May 25, 1957 in Lyon, France and now living and working in Paris. He is widely recognized as a progenitor of the figuration libre movement that began in Paris around 1980 as a reaction to the art establishment in general and minimalism and conceptual art in particular.…
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Marina Del Pozo, Judith 01 Painting, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 34
The Book of Judith is the Old Testament of the Bible. The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the enemy general, Holofernes, with whom…
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Jacques du Broeucq, Charity 01 Carving, 15 & 16th Century Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible!; With Footnotes – 8c
Roman Charity is the exemplary story of a woman, Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her father, Cimon, after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. She is found out by a jailer, but her act of selflessness impresses officials and wins her father’s release. The story is recorded by the ancient Roman historian Valerius Maximus,…
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VIRGIN OF THE ANNUNCIATION 01 Carving, 15 & 16th Century Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible!; With Footnotes – 8b
The Annunciation referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation. Gabriel…
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CARMEN PARRA, Arcángel San Gabriel 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27
In the Abrahamic religions, Gabriel is an angel who typically serves as a messenger sent from God to certain people. In the Old Testament, he appears to the prophet Daniel, delivering explanations of Daniel’s visions. In the Gospel of Luke, Gabriel appeared to Zechariah and the Virgin Mary, foretelling the births of John the Baptist and…
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Sistine Madonna 02 Works, CONTEMPORARY & Old Master Interpretations of the Bible! With Footnotes – 26
“This painting is inspired by covers of magazines. I wanted to mix old and new and used a detail of “Sistine Madonna”, painted by the famous painter Raphael in 1514 (Below). This caracter is named saint Barbara. She’s not the main caracter of the original painting but her face is beautiful and famous. She could have…
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Tintoretto, Recovery of the corpse of St. Mark 02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 119
Tommaso Rangone, “grand guardian” of the Scuola di San Marco in Venice, commissioned Tintoretto in 1562 to paint a cycle depicting episodes associated with the saint, which the artist had completed by 1566. The cycle of large canvases, one of which is the Pinacoteca’s Finding of the Body of Saint Mark, recounted not only the…
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Ellis Christopher, Salome 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 25
Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After Philip’s death in 34 AD she married Aristobulus of Chalcis…
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Lynda Diamond, Adam Eve and Dolly 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27
“I painted this painting during the time Dolly the sheep was cloned. I thought it made for interesting subject matter. This painting is special because I made all my own paints for this painting by hand, making the colours more vivid than usual. Adam Eve and Dolly took one year to paint while living in…
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