Tag: Mythology,
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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06 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – 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 Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the…
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05 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 1st, is Ignatius of Antioch’s Day, With Footnotes – 32
“Instigate the animals so that in them I find my sepulcher and nothing remains of my body in order not to be of any burden to anyone, supplicate God for me, that by this means make me become a host for God” Cesare Fracanzano (1605-1651), a Neapolitan painter who flourished in the 17th century, was a pupil of…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 31st, is Saints Cyrus and John’s Day, With Footnotes – 31
Saints Cyrus and John (d. ca. 304 AD, or 311) are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they are supposed to have healed the sick free of charge. Cyrus and John were both Alexandrians; this, however, is contradicted by other documents in which it is said…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 30th, is Saint Martina of Rome’s Day, With Footnotes – 30
Martina of Rome was a Roman martyr under emperor Alexander Severus. A patron saint of Rome, she was martyred in 226. The daughter of an ex-consul and orphaned at an early age, she was described as a noble and beautiful virgin. She so openly testified to her Christian faith that she could not escape the persecutions under Alexander Severus. Arrested and commanded to return to…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 29th, is Saint Francis de Salese’s Day, With Footnotes – 29
Saint Francis de Sales CO OM OFM Cap. (21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622). Francis was ordained to the priesthood in 1593. From 1594 to 1598 he preached to the Protestants of Chablais and effected the return of some 70,000 souls to the Catholic faith. In 1602 he became bishop of Genf. Please follow link…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 27th, is Saint Polycarp’s Day, With Footnotes – 27
Polycarp (AD 69 – 155) was a 2nd-century Christian bishop of Smyrna. It is recorded that he had been a disciple of John the Apostle. Saint Jerome wrote that Polycarp was a disciple of John and that John had ordained him bishop of Smyrna. He was reckoned the chief of all the Christians of Asia, because he had…
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05 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 25th, is Saint Paul’s conversion Day, With Footnotes – 25
Claude Vignon (19 May 1593 – 10 May 1670) was a leading French painter and engraver working in the Baroque manner. He was born at Tours and received early training in Paris. About 1610 he travelled to Rome where his mature style was formed in the circle of French painters there that included Simon Vouet and…
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05 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 24nd, Saint Timothy’s Day, With Footnotes – 24
Saint Timothy, (died AD 97, Ephesus, now in Turkey); disciple of St. Paul the Apostle, whom he accompanied on his missions; traditional martyr and first bishop of Ephesus. Please follow link for full post Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the Nude and The Canals of Venice, And visit my Boards on Pinterest…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 22nd, Saint Anastasius’ Day, With Footnotes – 22
Saint Anastasius of Persia was originally a Zoroastrian cavalryman in the army of Khosrau II (r. 590–628), and participated in capture of the True Cross in Jerusalem, which was carried to the Sasanian capital Ctesiphon. The occasion prompted him to ask for information about the Christian religion. He then experienced a conversion of faith, left the army, became…
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François Schommer, The beautiful dancer 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 24
François Schommer, born in Paris on November 20 , 1850 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1935, was an academic painter, aquafortist and French decorator . Schommer exhibited at the Paris Salons and at the Salons of French Artists from 1870 to 1935 2 , 1 . In 1878, he obtained the first prize of Rome…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 21st, Saint Agnes’ Day, With Footnotes – 21
The Museo del Prado owns two of his paintings representing the Visitation and the Martyrdom of St. Agnes, executed for the chapel of St. Thomas of Villanova in the convent of San Julián de Valencia. Somewhat overshadowed by the fame of his son who had more of an emotional style, but certainly better equipped, experts…
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09 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 20th, Saint Sebastian’s Day, With Footnotes – 20
Peter Paul Rubens, (1577–1640)St. Sebastian, circa 1614Oil on canvas Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. In…
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07 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 19th, Saint Canute’s Day, With Footnotes – 19
Holy Knud on the medieval wall painting in the Wigsteads Church Canute IV, byname Canute the Holy, or Saint Canute, (born c. 1043—died July 10, 1086, Odense, Den.; canonized 1101; feast days January 19, July 10), martyr, patron saint, and king of Denmark from 1080 to 1086. Canute succeeded his brother Harold Hen as king…
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Javiera Estrada, Goddess of Beauty 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #10
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is identified with the planet Venus; her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. Myrtle, roses, doves, sparrows and swans were sacred to her. Aphrodite was created from the sea foam produced by Uranus’s genitals, which had been severed by Cronus. In Homer’s Iliad, however,…
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