God – Zaidan Gallery

01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Northern Netherlands’ Entombment of Christ, with Footnotes – #130

Aug 23, 2025

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Sold for € 10.200 in March 2023 The burial of Jesus refers to the burial of the body of Jesus after crucifixion, before the eve of the sabbath described in the New Testament. According to the canonical gospel accounts, he was placed in a tomb by a councillor of the sanhedrin named Joseph of Arimathea. In…

01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Reginald Arthur’s Pharaoh’s Daughter, with Footnotes, #184

May 5, 2025

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in Portait of a Lady, Portrate of a Lady

Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in July 2016 Pharaoh’s Daughter appears to depict the un-named heroine of Exodus who discovered the infant Moses among the bulrushes when she was fetching water from the Nile. It was a popular subject in the nineteenth century and the most famous depiction of her was painted by Lawrence…

01 Religious Icon, Christ Pantocrator, with footnotes #41

Nov 29, 2024

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in Icons

In Christian iconography, Christ Pantocrator is a specific depiction of Christ. Pantocrator or Pantokrator, usually translated as “Almighty” or “all-powerful”, is derived from one of many names of God in Judaism. The Pantokrator, largely an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic theological conception, is less common under that name in Western (Roman) Catholicism and largely unknown to most…

01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Ermanno Stroiffi’s Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, With Footnotes – #136

Oct 30, 2024

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in Religious Art

Estimated for €8,000 – €12,000 in November 2022 The Bible states that Elijah is a Tishbite from Gilead, who visited King Ahab to give him a message from God that there would be no rain in the land until he declared it. In order to avoid the wrath of the king, God told Elijah to hide by the Brook…

01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Italian School’s Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael, with Footnotes – #220

Oct 18, 2024

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in Religious Art

Sold for $1,000 USD in May 2022 Hagar is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis Chapter 16. She was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, who gave her to Abraham “to wife” to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham’s firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. After Sarah gave birth to…

Cretan School; Mother of Consolation Veneto-Cretan and Saint Monica 1 Russian Icon, with footnotes, #4

May 9, 2020

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in Icons, Religious Art, Uncategorized

Image-filling representation of the half-length Mother of God; depicted half-length wearing a blue tunic and a brown maphorion.. She holds the Christ Child in her left arm. He has raised his right hand in blessing and holds with his left the globe. His himation is decorated with a gold-Chrysographie. Next to them, the Saint Catherine appears. The earliest story tells of Saint…

Magnus Gjoen, BREAK GLASS FOR RESURRECTION 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 21

Aug 23, 2018

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in Religious Art, Uncategorized

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…