Tag: Icon
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09 works, Today, December 25th, is Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar’s day, their story, illustrated #357
Andrea Mantegna ( c. 1431 — September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence…
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06 works, Today, December 24th, is Adela of Normandy’s day, her story, illustrated #356
Adela of Normandy, of Blois, or of England (c. 1067 – 8 March 1137), also known as Saint Adela in Roman Catholicism, was a daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders who later became the Countess of Blois, Chartres, and Meaux by marriage to Stephen II, Count of Blois. The couple had ten children…
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09 works, Today, December 16th, is Saint Adelaide of Italy’s, day, her story, illustrated #349
Tracy L. Christianson: “I’m a self taught artist who has loved drawing people for as long as I can remember. While working as a graphic artist /designer, I did portraiture on the side. My future lead me to combining my beautiful Catholic faith and love of portraiture to drawing portraits of the saints. Each saint…
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08 works, Today, December 12th, is Saint Agatha of Sicily’s day, her story, illustrated #345
Agatha of Sicily (c. 231 — c. 251 AD) is a Christian saint. Her memorial is on 5 February. Agatha was born in Catania or Palermo, Sicily. One of the most highly venerated virgin martyrs of Christian antiquity, Agatha was put to death during the persecution of Decius (250–253) in Catania, Sicily, for her determined profession of…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Adriana Varejão’s Cristo, with Footnotes – #52
Crucifixion is a historical method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang for several days until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It is principally known from classical antiquity, but remains in occasional use in some countries. The crucifixion of Jesus is a…
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09 works, Today, December 4th, is Saint John the Silent, يوحنا الدمشقي day, his story, illustrated #337
The city of Damascus in Syria fell to the Muslims in 635. At the time of the Caliph Abdul-Malik, responsibility for government of the Christian population was given to Sergius Mansur, a prominent Christian of the city. Sergius strove to govern in a godly way under the many disabilities imposed by the Caliph, and devoted…
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1 Religious Icon, 19th C. Russian Icon of St. Alexander Svirsky, with footnotes #21
St. Alexander Svirsky spent much of time of his life as a monk, including some period of total isolation from society. In 1506, Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod, appointed him Hegumen of the Trinity monastery, which later became known as Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, at the place of the saint’s eremitic life between Roschinsky and Holy lakes.A rendition of…
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07 works, Today, November 19th, is the Prophet Obadiah’s day, his story illustrated #322
John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 — April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from…
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1 Religious Icon, 18th C. Russian Icon, Christ Emmanuel, with footnotes #19
The text beneath may refer to a passage of Isaiah that Christ read in the synagogue of Nazareth, “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the afflicted”. The prophet Isaiah coined the term Emmanuel which means God is with us, and this…
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08 Works, Interpretation of the bible, The Martyrdom of Saint Afra, with Footnotes – #192
In the late 3rd century, Afra’s pagan family journeyed from Cyprus to Augsburg. She was dedicated to the service of the goddess Venus, by her mother, Hilaria. She was originally a prostitute in Augsburg, and is reputed either to have run a brothel in that town or worked as a hierodule in the Temple of…
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09 works, Today, October 8th, is Saint Pelagia’s day, her story illustrated #280
Pelagia’s story, attributed to Jamesor Jacob, deacon of the church of modern Baalbek. He states that Margarita, the Latin equivalent of “Pelagia, was the “foremost actress” and a prominent harlot in Antioch… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Ramon Martinez’s Female Jesus, With Footnotes – #42
Dark portrait of Jesus as woman. This image has been selected as cover of the German thriller “Führerin” by Gregor Eisenhauer. My name is Ramon Martinez. I work with experimental art in video, photography, 3D art, 3D animations, etc. about the subject the crucified female Christ. I’ve started my art project since early 2005 and…
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07 works, Today, August 27th, is Saint Phanourios’ day, his story illustrated #239
Angelos Akotantos was a 15th-century Byzantine-Cretan Icon-painter and hagiographer who lived and worked at Heraklion, Crete, then part of the Republic of Venice. He was the first hagiographer to sign his name on his icons by writing in Greek: “Χειρ Αγγέλου” which, translated in English, means “By hand of Angelos”. Angelos Akotantos’ known works consist…
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04 Works, Today, June 3rd is Saint Lucillian’s day, his story in Paintings #154
Saint Lucillian was a pagan priest during the reign of the Roman emperor Aurelian. In his old age he turned to the faith in Christ, and was baptized. Under the influence of his preaching many pagans were converted to Christianity. Then certain Jews, seeing that he was spreading faith in Christ, reported Lucillian to the…
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05 Works, Today, May 30th is Saint Joan’s day, her story in Paintings #150
As one of the Lorraine natives inspired by the sudden relevance of Joan of Arc’s image, Jules Bastien-Lepage in 1875 started sketches for this life-sized portrait of Joan of Arc showing her at the moment that she received her first call to arms against the English invaders of 1424. Bastien-Lepage captures the suddenness of the…
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1 Russian Icon, Saints Sergey and Barlaam kneeling at the feet of Jesus Christ, with footnotes #9
An icon portraying Saints Sergey and Barlaam kneeling at the feet of Jesus Christ who stands on a small plinth. Jesus wears flowing red vestments beneath a dark-blue robe, holds the open Holy Gospel in his left hand, reaches his right hand toward Saint Sergey, and has a coronal halo behind his gentle visage. Saints…
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1 Religious Icon, Luca Signorelli’s Saint Nicholas of Bari saving three knights, with footnotes #11
The reign of Constantine The Great was not always stable. Borders had to be protected, laws enforced and if unrest broke out or even a sniff of conspiracy surfaced, Constantine also dealt with these matters seriously and harshly. Often though he left law enforcement in regional centres to be carried out by governors and local…
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02 Paintings, Joshua Reynolds Repainted Rembrandt’s Masterpiece Susanna and the Elders
Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie announced they’ve made a shocking discovery about the museum’s Rembrandt masterpiece Susanna and the Elders (1647), Focus reports. An X-ray analysis of the oil painting has revealed that the it had at one time undergone extensive alterations… Please follow link for full post
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1 Russian Icon, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, with footnotes #8
Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek city of Myra in Asia Minor during the time of the Roman Empire. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries…
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1 Icon, Sir Robert James Philipson’s Iconostasis, with footnotes #7
Sir Robert (Robin) James Philipson RA RSA FRSE RSW (1916–1992) was a Lancashire-born painter who was influential within the Scottish art scene for over three decades. He was then schooled at Dumfries Academy and then studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1936 to 1940. On the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the…
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