Tag: Jacob de Backer
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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Jacob de Backer’s Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen, with footnotes #38
Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and considered in Greek myth to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She was married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen and carried her off to the city of Troy, the Greeks responded by mounting an attack on the city,…
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66 Paintings – RELIGIOUS ART BY THE OLD MASTER PAINTERS – Paintings from the Bible, with footnotes
Artists included: Ángel Zárraga, Marten de Vos, Artus Wolfaerts, Jacopo Zanguidi, Jacob de Backer, Gerrit van Honthorst, Francesco Guarino da Solofra, Francesco Guarino, The Master of the Parrot, Antwerp School, Manuel Lopez Vazquez, Anton Kern, Pere Lembrí, Valencian School, Caravaggio, Anton Raphael Mengs, School of Toledo, Spanish School, Pedro Orrente, Francisco Camilo, Bolognese School, Northern…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Rome , Circle of Jacob de Backer’s Porcia, wife of Brutos, with footnotes #38
Sold for 12,500 GBP in December 2011 Porcia Catonis’ (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), famous second marriage was to her first cousin, Marcus Junius Brutus, the close friend of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar who plotted his murder. Information about Porcia comes from ancient sources such as Plutarch, and most of it has a decidedly literary quality.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jacob de Backer’s Allegory of Christian patience, with Footnotes #187
A Naked, young woman in a half-sitting position, leaning against a rock to which she is chained. Head and eyes raised to the heavens, in her left hand she is holding a crucifix. A putto with a laurel wreath in her left hand and a palm branch in her right hand flies over her head.…
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38 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Artists’ interpretation of Lot and His Daughters over the decades, with Footnotes – #136
Lot and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jacob de Backer’s Lot and his daughters, with Footnotes #186
Sold for 16,250 USD in June 2014 Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30-38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man…