Tag: Mythology,
-
Clemente Pujol de Gustavinon, THE FORTUNE TELLER 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #77
In the Middle East, fortunetellers use tarot cards kept in red boxes and read coffee grounds and buy prophetic poems by medieval sages. In Iran, fortunetellers use jyotish (“the science of light”), a practice related to astrology that is said to have originated in Persia. Sessions often last two hours. Clemente Pujol de Gustavinon. Not only was…
-
Italian master; Caritas romana/Roman Charity 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – #133
The illustrated story goes back to the Roman author Valerius Maximus (14 AD-37 AD). The exemplary story of a woman, Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her father, Cimon, after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. It was recounted approximately in 1362 by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). After him, several hundred paintings, drawings and sculptures were…
-
05 Works, Today, February 14th, is Lupercalia/ Valentine’s Day, With Footnotes – #45
Lupercalia was an ancient pastoral annual festival observed in the city of Rome between February 13 and February 15, to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. At the Lupercal altar, a male goat and a dog were sacrificed by one or another of the Luperci, under the supervision of the Flamen…
-
03 Works, Today, February 13th, is Saint Catherine de’ Ricci’s Day, With Footnotes – 44
Saint Catherine de’ Ricci, O.S.D. (Caterina de’ Ricci) (23 April 1522 – 2 February 1590), was an Italian Dominican Tertiary sister. She is believed to have had miraculous visions and corporeal encounters with Jesus, both with the infant Jesus and with the adult Jesus. She is said to have spontaneously bled with the wounds of…
-
06 Works, Today, February 12th, is Julian the Hospitaller’s Day, With Footnotes – #43
Julian the Hospitaller is a Roman Catholic saint. According to de Varazze, on the night Julian was born, his father, a man of noble blood, saw pagan witches secretly lay a curse on the boy that would make him kill both his parents. His father wanted to get rid of the child, but his mother did…
-
04 Works, Today, February 11th, is Our Lady of Lourdes’s Day, With Footnotes – 42
Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France. The first of these is the apparition of 11 February 1858, when 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a “lady” spoke…
-
03 Icons, Today, February 10th, is Saint Valentina of Palestine’s Day, With Footnotes – 41
Virginmartyr Valentina of Palestine was from Caesarea in Palestine. She was small and known for wearing old, worn out clothing. One day, when she was with her friend Thea, they joined a group of Christians gathered to hear the Holy Scriptures. Local officials broke up the meeting, grabbed Thea and tortured her… Please follow link…
-
04 Icons, Today, February 9th, is Saint Maron’s Day, With Footnotes – #40
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro, was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Syriac Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. The religious community which grew from this movement are…
-
05 Works, Today, February 8th, is Saint John of Matha’s Day, With Footnotes – # 39
Saint John of Matha (1160–1213) was a Christian saint of the 12th century and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, dedicated to ransoming captive Christians. Between the eighth and the fifteenth centuries medieval Europe was in a state of intermittent warfare between the Christian kingdoms of southern Europe and the Muslim polities of…
-
06 Works, Today, February 7th, is Saint Theodore Stratilat’s Day, With Footnotes – 38
Theodore Stratelates, also known as Theodore of Heraclea, is a martyr and Warrior Saint venerated with the title Great-martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches… Please follow link for full post
-
Louis Debucourt Philibert; CHARGE OF MAMELOUK 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 76
Mamluk is an Arabic designation for slaves. The term is most commonly used to refer to non-muslim slave soldiers and Muslim rulers of slave origin. The most enduring Mamluk realm was the knightly military caste in Egypt in the Middle Ages, which developed from the ranks of slave soldiers. The “mamluk phenomenon”, as David Ayalon dubbed…
-
William Kroll, Eve Has Fallen 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 25
Eve has fallen from grace upon the fruit of her own demise. She now rests upon the dark abyss of her soul. Despite her failings, the intrinsic natural beauty of form remains just as appealing… William Kroll Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the…
-
Anatolij Brusilovski, Europa? 01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #22
In Greek mythology Europa was the mother of King Minos of Crete, a woman with Phoenician origin of high lineage, and for whom the continent Europe was named. The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story; as classicist Károly Kerényi points out, “most of the…
-
Abraham Bloemaert; THE EXPULSION OF ADAM AND EVE 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 130
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that YHWH created human beings to live in a paradise on earth, although they fell away from that state and formed…
-
05 Works, Today, February 3rd, is Saint Blaise’s Day, With Footnotes – 33
Saint Blaisese, was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea in historical Armenia. According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron combs, and beheaded. He is the patron saint of wool combers… Please follow link for full post
Zaidan Gallery 