Tag: Death
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01 Work, The art of War, Jacek Malczewski’s Death, with Footnotes
Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper, a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe, causes the victim’s death by coming to collect that person’s soul. Other beliefs hold that the spectre of death is only a psychopomp, a benevolent figure who serves to gently sever the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Circle of Hans Baldung’s An Allegory of Death, with footnotes
Estimate for 20,000 – 30,000 GBP in December 2023 This thick panel undoubtedly corresponds to a votive work bearing the arms of the von Metzsch family, Germany (their coats of arms depicted in the lower right corner). The central scene, representing death and a young woman fighting for the survival of the man in the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jeremy Mann’s The Death Angel, with footnotes
In the Bible death is viewed under form of an angel sent from God, a being deprived of all voluntary power. “The destroyer” kills the first-born of the Egyptians, and the “destroying angel” rages among the people in Jerusalem. The “angel of the Lord” is seen by David standing “between the earth and the heaven,…
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02 Paintings, The art of War, Leonard Henry Rosoman’s House Collapsing on Two Firemen, with footnotes
Dramatic view of a building on fire during the Second World War in CLondon. The figure of the men are silhouetted on the ground in the brightness of the scene, as they fight the blaze… Please follow link for full post
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01 Fresco, The art of War, Il trionfo della morte/ The Triumph of Death, circa 1446, with footnotes
The fresco depicts a luxurious garden surrounded by a hedge. Death enters riding a skeletal horse, firing arrows from a bow. Death aims at characters belonging to all social levels, killing them. Death has just released an arrow, which has hit a young man in the lower right corner; Death also wears a scythe at…
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Magnus Gjoen, BREAK GLASS FOR RESURRECTION 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 21
Magnus Gjoen, United Kingdom BREAK GLASS FOR RESURRECTION New Media 31.5 H x 21.7 W x 0 in Private collection An image of Christ being resurrected by someone having broken the glass dome within which he has been sealed. The broken glass at the bottom reads backwards ‘so help us God’. The resurrection of Jesus is the…
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