Tag: Giovanni Bellini

01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Elizabeth – with footnotes #203

Aug 12, 2025

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The Mother of God and the Christ Child are in the company of John the Baptist and his mother, Elizabeth. This devotional painting radiates quietude of a virtually sublime character. The pictorial type known as ‘sacra conversazione’ (sacred conversation) was extremely popular. Successful artists like Bellini produced several versions of it, combining figures based on…
51 Paintings, Interpretation of the bible by Artists of 16th and 17th Centuries, with footnotes

Nov 8, 2022

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Saint Acisclus was a martyr of Córdoba, in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula. His life is mentioned by Eulogius of Cordoba. He suffered martyrdom during the Diocletianic Persecution along with his sister Victoria. Their feast day is 17 November. There is doubt about the historical veracity of Victoria’s existence, but both martyrs were honored in Mozarabic…