Tag: Mythology,
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Max Jacob, Charge of Eastern Horsemen 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 44
Max Jacob (12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. After spending his childhood in Quimper, Brittany, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic career. He was one of the first friends Pablo Picasso made in Paris. They met in the…
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Frederick Sandys, Valkyrie 01 Works – RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from Norse mythology, with footnotes – 2
One of the many ‘strong women’ paintings that emerged from the later years of the nineteenth century. In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja “chooser of the slain”) is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who…
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Giorgione, Castelfranco Madonna 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 130
Commissioned by Tuzio Constanzo, a member of the Order of Malta, the Castelfranco Madonna was produced in memory of his son, Matteo. Tuzio was a condottiero, one of the warlords of Italian city-states during the late Middle Ages. His son died, probably whilst serving him, for the Republic of Venice in the early 1500s. He was…
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Giovanni Muzzioli, Abraham and Sarah in the Court of Pharaoh 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 177
According to the essay for the reconfirmation of the pensioner, the great biblical scene sent to Modena in 1875 provoked discordant opinions. The scene takes place in a seemingly external environment with the protagonists pushed in the foreground by an architectural backdrop, made with calibrated archaeological taste. The scene, Abraham and Sara close to each…
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Unknown Artist, 17th century, Aeneas’ Farewell to Dido 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes #34
One of the Trojan heroes, Aeneas wandered for six years after the fall of Troy and reached Carthage for some rest. The queen Dido welcomed them whole-heartedly and heard their story. During his stay, Aeneas and Dido fell in love with each other and Dido declared him her lord and began to rule Carthage together.…
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Flemish School 17th century, The Stigmatization of Saint Francis 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 119
The Stigmatization of Saint Francis. Two years before his death, according to his custom, Saint Francis had repaired to Mt La Verna to spend the 40 days preceding the feast of St. Michael the Archangel in prayer and fasting. On the morning of the feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross, as he was praying in…
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Steven Doyle, Rushing to get to prayers 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART, With Footnotes – 118
Buddhists monks hurrying to their prayers at The Dzong Paro Bhutan. More on this photograph Rinpung Dzong is a large dzong – Buddhist monastery and fortress – of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school in Paro District, Bhutan. It houses the district Monastic Body and government administrative offices of Paro Dzongkhag. It is listed as a…
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Iva Troj, Lamb 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 22
“The painting technique I’ve used here resembles the Flemish method of layering thin veneers of paint between layers of varnish. I start with pencils, pastels, and varnish. After that, I paint a lighter layer with acrylics and finish with a couple of thicker layers using a combination of mediums, often acrylics and oils, but sometimes…
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Indigent Family 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5c
Traditionally, Charity was represented as a mother and children but here Bouguereau gives the theme a new twist as the mother and children are, themselves, in need of charity. A destitute family of a barefoot mother and her three young children sit huddled on the lower steps of the Church of the Madeleine, Paris. The symmetry of…
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Agnieszka Lorek, Elen of the Ways 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #14
I do not know the name of this beautiful work; and so I looked for a comparable mythological deity and chose Elen of the Ways. Elen of the Ways. As the Green Lady, she peeps out between the trees in forests and woods. As a British Venus, Goddess of Gardens, she is the Flower Bride: at…
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