Tag: EGYPTIAN
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jan Lievens’ Pilate Washing his Hands, with Footnotes – #186
The Roman governor Pilate thinks that Jesus hasn’t done much harm and wants to let him go. But the Jewish priests and the crowd make him punish Jesus anyway. By washing his hands, Pilate shows he feels no responsibility for the events. In the background to the right Jesus is taken away. Jan Lievens was…
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02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski’s Mohammedan paradise – with footnotes #196
The Koran has for its subject matter death, resurrection, judgment, paradise, and hell. The joys of paradise are designed to satisfy fundamental desires in man. All who die for the cause of their religion go to paradise. This Mohammedan paradise is made delightful by beautiful black- eyed maidens (houris) not made of common clay. They…
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04 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, American artist Deborah Lanino, with Footnotes. #200
American artist Deborah Lanino has a unique connection to the art world. As a direct descendant of Bernardino Lanino, a successful Renaissance painter from Vercelli, Italy over 400 years ago, she finds this connection imbues her fusion of impressionism and expressionism with a unique insight… Please follow link for full post
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13 Drawings – RELIGIOUS ART – Drawings from the Bible by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
This is the first of two scenes in which Rembrandt depicted different aspects of the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac. Here Abraham beckons his son with his hand raised heavenward indicating that his sacrifice is a result of obedience to God. Etching and burin work combined with selective wiping of the plate produce an…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of ancient Egyptians deities With Footnotes – 97
Neferneferuaten Nefertiti (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was an Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshiped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc. With her husband, she reigned at what was arguably the wealthiest period…
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47 Ancient Egyptian Artefacts – The Story of the Middle Kingdom, 2000 BC and 1700 BC – With footnotes – 4 –
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (also known as The Period of Reunification) is the period in the history of ancient Egypt between about 2000 BC and 1700 BC, stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty, although some writers include the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties. During this period,…
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Guido Cagnacci’s Martha blames Mary for her Vanity, With Footnotes # 48H
This is no ordinary representation of Mary Magdalene, who became a follower of Christ and later, a saint. Traditionally shown holding a skull and contemplating her morality, here she lies almost naked on the ground, begged by her virtuous sister Martha to abandon her sinful life of vice and luxury. Virtue, a blond-haired angel, chases…
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38 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Artists’ interpretation of Lot and His Daughters over the decades, with Footnotes – #136
Jan Wellens de Cock (c. 1480–1527) was a Flemish painter and draftsman of the Northern Renaissance. He was probably born in Leiden in Holland but settled in Antwerp. In 1506 Jan is recorded in the archives of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp as having accepted an apprentice called ‘Loduwyck’. It is unclear in…
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Nathaniel Sichel; Portrait of an Egyptian Woman 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #55
Nathaniel Sichel’s artistic career began at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, where he was trained in the academic tradition by Julius Schrader. He continued his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux arts where he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1864 with a painting entitled Joseph explains the dreams of the…
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Effat Nagui, UNTITLED (GIRL WITH HER GOAT) 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 39
Effat Nagy (5 April 1905 – 4 October 1994) was an Egyptian artist who has a museum in Cairo devoted to her and her husband’s works. The museum is called Museum of Saad El-Khadem and Effat Nagy Effat Mousa Nagy was born in the Mediterranean port of Alexandria in 1905. She was fascinated by culture, she…
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Alfred Sacheverel Coke, The daughter of Herodias (Salome) 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 105
Alfred Sacheverel Coke (British, active 1860-1900) The daughter of Herodias (Salome) Oil on canvas 80 x 31in (203 x 79cm) Private collection 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…
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05 Mexican Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 & 16th Century. With Footnotes -# 9
SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA MÆ’XICO, SIGLO XIX Wood carving with glass eyes. Satin dress. Height: 61cm Private Collection Saint Anthony of Padua (Portuguese: Santo António), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born…
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13 Ancient Egyptian Artefacts – With footnotes – 5 – With footnotes
Romano-Egyptian, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. Heavy gold foil formed into the likeness of a Nile crocodile. Incredibly detailed with open mouth exposing rows of deadly teeth, almond-shaped eyes and rows and rows of scaley scutes with pronounced central dorsal ridge. Size: 6.875″ L (17.5 cm), 37.1 grams of 97% pure gold.…
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