Tag: Mythology,
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Francesco Brina, Madonna and child with young St John, Madonna col Bambino e San Giovannino, 02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27
Francesco Brina, (1540–1586) Madonna and child with young St John, Oil on panel 54.5 × 43 cm (21.4 × 16.9 in) Private collection This painting depicts the “Virgo lactans,” the Latin term for the nursing Virgin Mary. The image testifies to the humanity of Christ as it shows that he consumed food like all other…
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Ferdinand Leeke, The Mermaid and the Satyr 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 8
Ferdinand Leeke, (1859–1937) The Mermaid and the Satyr, c. 1917 Oil on canvas 39 x 53.1 in. / 99 x 135 cm Private collection A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The…
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Magnus Gjoen, BREAK GLASS FOR RESURRECTION 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 21
Magnus Gjoen, United Kingdom BREAK GLASS FOR RESURRECTION New Media 31.5 H x 21.7 W x 0 in Private collection An image of Christ being resurrected by someone having broken the glass dome within which he has been sealed. The broken glass at the bottom reads backwards ‘so help us God’. The resurrection of Jesus is the…
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UMBRIAN-SIENESE SCHOOL, Paris 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 24
UMBRIAN-SIENESE SCHOOL Paris Oil on poplar panel 48.8 x 28.6 cm.; 19 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. Private collection Paris, also known as Alexander, the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the best known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being…
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Francesco Lazzaro Guardi, The Madonna Annunciate 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 112
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi The Madonna Annunciate Oil on paper, laid down on canvas 12 x 9 cm.; 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. Private collection The Madonna/ Virgin Annunciate is a painting that shows Mary interrupted at her reading by the Angel of the Annunciation. The Annunciation referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation…
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Peter Nicolai Arbo, Valkyrie’s Death 01 Works – RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from Norse mythology, with footnotes – 1
Peter Nicolai Arbo, (1831-92) Valkyrie’s Death, 1880 Oil on canvas 1200X675 Private collection A 10th century Viking unearthed in the 1880s was an elite warrior buried with a sword, an ax, a spear, arrows, a knife, two shields, and a pair of warhorses. And like a mythical valkyrie, a new study published finds that the…
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Circle of Nicolas Poussin, Venus and Cupid 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 22
Circle of Nicolas Poussin, (1594 – 1665) Venus and Cupid Oil on canvas 33 x 42.5 cm.; 13 x 16 3/4 in. Private collection Venus and Love/ Venus and Cupid. Different tales exist about the origin of Venus and Cupid. Some say that Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, had a love affair with Mars, the god…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 7
Fernando Botero Prisoner With Thorns in the manner of Fernando Botero “Prisionero Con Espinas” pastel on paper circa.2002, private collection Approx. 50x35cm. in the manner of Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world. Botero left matador school to become an artist,…
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Italian School, Sleeping Venus with Cupid 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 23
Italian School, c. 1660 Sleeping Venus with Cupid Oil on canvas 75 x 130 cm Private collection This “Sleeping Venus” has not yet been assigned an author. The motif, with the goddess here depicted life-sized in an elongated landscape format, derives from the works of 16th century Venetian artists such as Giorgone and Titian. Paris…
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Léon Comerre, JUDITH 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 107
Léon Comerre, 1850 – 1916, FRENCH JUDITH Oil on canvas 49 by 26.5cm., 19 by 10½in. Private collection The Book of Judith is the Old Testament of the Bible. The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their…
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Imogen Cunningham, Eve Repentant, 1910 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th C. Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 29
Imogen Cunningham, (American, 1883-1976) Eve Repentant, 1910 Gelatin silver, printed later 11-1/4 x 8-1/8 inches (28.6 x 20.6 cm) Private collection Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adam’s…
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German School, Ecce Homo 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 106
German School late 16th century Ecce Homo Oil on copper 18 x 29.5 cm Private collection Ecce homo are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of John 19:5, when he presents a scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. The Douay-Rheims Bible…
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Jose Garcia Ocejo, The Minotaur and the Maiden – 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #8
Jose Garcia Ocejo (b.1928) The Minotaur and the Maiden, c. 2015 Oil on wood 64 x 52 cm / 25.1 x 20.4 inches Private collection In Greek mythology, the Minotaur is a mythical creature portrayed in Classical times with the head of a bull and the body of a man, or, as described by Roman poet Ovid,…
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Alfred Sacheverel Coke, The daughter of Herodias (Salome) 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 105
Alfred Sacheverel Coke (British, active 1860-1900) The daughter of Herodias (Salome) Oil on canvas 80 x 31in (203 x 79cm) Private collection Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome…
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Laurence Winram, Mihaela as Cerynitis II 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #7
Laurence Winram, United Kingdom Nude – Mihaela as Cerynitis II Photography: Color on Paper. Size: 23.4 H x 16.5 W x 0 in Private collection In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian Hind (Greek: Ελαφος Κερυνῖτις Elaphos Kerynitis), also called Cerynitis or the Golden Hind, was an enormous hind, who lived in Keryneia, Greece. It was sacred to Artemis,…
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