Tag: Paradise
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Paul Rieth’s Adam and Eve, with Footnotes – #131
Estimated for 5,000 – 20,000 EUR in March 2023 In a desolate landscape of rocks and brown and red cliffs, with no way to escape, a naked Adam and Eve, marked by the original sin, lament their fate. Rieth has here reduced the narrative to its essentials, without introducing any unnecessary picturesque element, focusing on the guilt…
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02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski’s Mohammedan paradise – with footnotes #196
The Koran has for its subject matter death, resurrection, judgment, paradise, and hell. The joys of paradise are designed to satisfy fundamental desires in man. All who die for the cause of their religion go to paradise. This Mohammedan paradise is made delightful by beautiful black- eyed maidens (houris) not made of common clay. They…
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Francesco da Ponte, Banishment from paradise 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 177
The banishment from paradise, or the fall of man, or the fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. Although not named in the Bible, the doctrine of the fall comes from a biblical…
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