Tag: Icon
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01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of the holy empress Saint Alexandra, with footnotes #35
The Saint shown standing at full length, richly dressed in gem- and pearl-studded clothing and crown, and holding a cross, with Christ shown in the clouds above her Saint Alexandra was the reputed wife of Emperor Diocletian, from 284 until his abdication in 305, and secretly converted to Christianity. Jacobus de Voragine listing her name as “Alexandria”…
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01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of Christ Pantocrator, with footnotes #34
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…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Gabriel Joseph Marie Augustin Ferrier’s Scenes from The Spanish Inquisition, With Footnotes #134
Sold for 6,930 USD in May 2022 This half-length Mary Magdalene depicted as a voluptuous female nude is characteristic of the seventeenth-century Florentine painter Simone Pignoni and artists in his orbit. The Saint’s windswept locks and swirling red drapery heighten the composition’s sense of drama and imbue the image with an effect of swift, graceful movement.…
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01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of the Kazan Mother of God with gilded silver oklad, with footnotes #33
Sold for 17,500 USD on April 2014Our Lady of Kazan, also called Mother-of-God of Kazan, was a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian Orthodox Church, representing the Virgin Mary as the protector and patroness of the city of Kazan, and a palladium of all of Russia and Rus’, known as the Holy Protectress…
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13 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, Sandro Botticelli, with footnotes #28
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 — May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a…
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01 Religious Icon, St. Luke presenting the Mother of God with the first icon, with footnotes #32
The painted icon is covered with a metal cover, the borders with angels, set among floral garlands, raising up the image. The Apostle Luke is mostly known as one of the four Evangelists. In fact, he told us more than the other three about our Lord’s childhood, as well as about His mother Mary. It is…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s The Virgin and Child, With Footnotes #127
This painting was sold on 12 April 2022 for £3,187.50 The present lot is after Murillo’s original which now hangs at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. More on this painting The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word…
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01 Religious Icon, Russian Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir, with footnotes #31
The miraculous image given the title, Our Lady of Vladimir, is known as an Eleousa, the Greek word meaning, Mother of Tenderness. The Christ Child nestles tenderly close to his mother, he gazes at her and is so closely linked to her that his left arm embraces her fully. His right hand gently touches her left…
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01 Religious Icon, The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign, with footnotes #30
The surface is richly carved, gilded, and painted in imitation of an enameled silver cover and pearl robes.The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign is the term for a particular type of icon of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), facing the viewer directly, depicted either full length or half, with her hands raised in the orans…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Jan Saudek’s Deep Devotion of Veronika, with Footnotes – #51
Jan Saudek ‘s compositions evoke the dramatic tableaus of early photography, with subjects artificially posed in front of the viewer. For many years, Saudek’s work remained underground in Prague as it would have garnered the attention of the secret police for its depiction of nudity and overt eroticism; at the time. His work has been…
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01 Religious Icon, A Russian icon of the Deesis, with footnotes #29
In the Deesis, the Pantocrator is in the center, to his right is the Mother of God in an attitude of intercession: she represents the Church, brings back to Christ the prayer of humanity and covers it with her maternal protection. After the Virgin, the Baptist has the place of honor next to Christ, to…
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01 Religious Icon, MOTHER OF GOD “MY SOUL MAGNIFIES THE LORD”, with footnotes #28
This icon with the Virgin enthroned in an oval reserve holding a book open to the words of the Magnificat in Cyrillic reading “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,” the silver oklad chased and repoussé with Neo-classical ornament, struck with mark of assayer Aleksei Vikhliaev, the Cyrillic…
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2 Religious Icons, Barnaba da Modena and Veneto-Cretan Icons of the Madonna and Child, with footnotes #27
The panel, probably originally rectangular, was cut at the top following the profile of the moldings in relief. Central element of a polyptych. The Nursing Madonna, Virgo Lactans, or Madonna Lactans, is an iconography of the Madonna and Child in which the Virgin Mary is shown breastfeeding the infant Jesus. In Italian it is called…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Biblel, by Roberto Ferri, With Footnotes – #54
Our Prayer Against Evil – Deliver us From Evil-The original language of this passage has the article “the”-i.e. “deliver us from the evil”-the Evil One or Satan. The meaning here is, “deliver us from his power, his snares, his arts, his temptations.” Satan is supposed to be the great parent of evil, and to be delivered…
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1 Religious Icon, 19th C. St. John the Baptist & Head, with footnotes #24
A winged St. John the Baptist holding a scroll as well as his severed head on a platter, with God the Father above. The wings occupy a large part of the composition and bestow John the Baptist’s body with an otherworldly, celestial dimension. The artist painstakingly delineated the feathered wings in various neutral earthtones with…
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations by The Master of the Figdor St Eustache, With Footnotes # 70 A
Saint Sebastian (died c. 288 AD) was an early Christian saint and martyr. Sebastian had prudently concealed his faith, but in 286 was detected. Diocletian reproached him for his betrayal, and he commanded him to be led to a field and there to be bound to a stake so that archers from Mauritania would shoot arrows…
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01 Religious Icon, 19th C. Russian Icon, St. Seraphim of Sarov, with footnotes #23
St. Seraphim of Sarovblesses himself before his icon of the Mother of God hanging in the tree above. At his feet are a hat, bread sack, gloves, and axe. The strongly modeled visage as well as the perspectival background suggest that the painter was very much influenced by Western art. The borders are meticulously incised…
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08 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by Paul Gauguin, Louis B. Davis, Callisto Piazza, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, With Footnotes # 56
Lilith, the subject of this painting, is described in Judaic literature as the first wife of Adam. She is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children. The depiction of women as powerful and evil temptresses was prevalent in 19th-century painting, particularly among the Pre-Raphaelites. The artist depicts Lilith as an iconic,…
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2 Religious Icon, Virgin of the Burning Bush and the Theotokos of Unburnt Bush with footnotes #22
The subject of Our Lady of the Burning Bush is based on the Old Testament prophecy of the incarnation of Christ. Such theologians as St Gregory of Nyssa and Theodoret of Cyrrhus regarded Moses’s vision of the burning bush as a symbol and prototype of the Virgin Mary and the Immaculate Conception. The iconography of…
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08 works, Today, December 28th, is The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia’s day, their story, illustrated #360
Stroganov School is a conventional name for the last major Russian icon-painting school, which thrived under the patronage of the rich Stroganov family of merchants in the late 16th and 17th century. “Stroganov School” owes its name to frequent mentioning of the Stroganovs on the markings on the back of the icons of Yemelyan Moskvitin,…
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