Tag: Figurative

Ellis Christopher, Salome 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 25

Mar 8, 2019

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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…
Lynda Diamond, Adam Eve and Dolly 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27

Mar 4, 2019

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“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…
José de Ribera, Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 112

Mar 3, 2019

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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…
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, MARY MAGDALEN IN ECSTASY 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 117

Mar 3, 2019

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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…
José de Ribera, Saint Sebastian Tended by the Holy Women 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 112

Mar 2, 2019

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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…
Neapolitan School, THE PENITENT MAGDALEN 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 118

Mar 1, 2019

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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…
Nyuka Anaïs Laurent, Well of Souls 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 34

Feb 27, 2019

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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…
OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 116

Feb 24, 2019

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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…
Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Lyon 05 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Lisa Lyon, with footnotes # 6

Feb 21, 2019

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The most-talked-about photographer of the 1980s, Robert Mapplethorpe was a belated classicist who understood how to present provocative themes in catchy visual images. After his photographic work with the New York leather scene, male nudes, and erotically-charged flower studies, Mapplethorpe turned his lens on the first female world champion in body-building. The resulting cycle is…
SAINT RAPHAEL THE ARCHANGEL 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 115

Feb 19, 2019

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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…
Apollonio di GIOVANNI, The Virgin and Child between Saint Francis and Saint Michael01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 110

Jan 22, 2019

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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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Jan 15, 2019

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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,…
Ramon Martinez, Female Christ 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27

Jan 12, 2019

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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,…
Walter Bird, Incognita 01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Incognita, with footnotes # 7

Jan 4, 2019

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Walter Bird (1903 – 1969) Incognita, c. 1938 Photoetching 10 13/16 x 8 15/16 in. (275 x 227 mm) Private collection Walter Bird (1903–1969) was a British photographer. He became known for his images of nudes and jointly set up a studio, Photo Centre Ltd., with John Everard and Horace Roye in 1939. From 1958 he was…
Sante D’Orazio, Patricia Velasquez, 01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 12

Dec 29, 2018

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Sante D’Orazio Patricia Velasquez, c. 2004 Photography 47 1/2 × 57 1/2 in; 120.7 × 146.1 cm Private collection Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún (born 31 January 1971) is a Venezuelan actress and model. In 1989, she participated in the Miss Venezuela 1989, where she placed as 2nd runner-up. After 3 years of Engineering college studies, Velásquez…
Saint Agatha, patron saint of the breast cancer 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 26

Dec 27, 2018

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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,…
03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 20, is Saint St. Dominic de Silos ‘s Day, With Footnotes – 150

Dec 21, 2018

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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…
Imogen Cunningham, Martha Graham 04 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Martha Graham, with footnotes # 10

Dec 20, 2018

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Imogen Cunningham Martha Graham, c. 1931 Gelatin silver print 7-1/2 – 5-5/8 Private collection “I wanted to begin not with characters or ideas, but with movements . . .I wanted significant movement. I did not want it to be beautiful or fluid. I wanted it to be fraught with inner meaning, with excitement and surge.”…
01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 16, is Pope Marcellus I’s Day, With Footnotes – 148

Dec 18, 2018

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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…
03 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart, with footnotes #5

Dec 15, 2018

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Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart, (1883 – 1960)Blue Drape 1919 Pastel on paper 53.5 x 36cmPrivate collection Her pastels are a curious mix of coy, girlish innocence and saccharine sensuality. In many of her pastels, Cumbrae Stewart has taken on the stereotype of the passive female nude and has attempted to rework it within her own…