Tag: religion
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68 Works and tales of Mermaids in Europe, Asia and Africa, with Footnotes #6
Artists: Charles Edouard Boutibonne, Edward Okun, Laura JamesDoris Prouty, Harald Oskar Sohlberg, Ralph Cahoon, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Arthur Wardle, Giovanni Segantini, Isobel Lilian Gloag, Edward Poynter, Edward Matthew Hale, Edvard Munch, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Aino, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Anton Teofil Kwiatkowski, Carl Bertling , Robert Anning Bell, William Arthur Breakspeare, Gerard de Lairesse, Howard Pyle, Julyan Davis, Albert Hanson,…
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07 works, Today, August 9th, is Saint Matthias’s day, his story illustrated #221
Matthias was, according to the Acts of the Apostles, chosen by the apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter’s betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death. His calling as an apostle is unique, in that his appointment was not made personally by Jesus… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Bernardino di Mariotto dello Stagno’s Virgin and Child, with Footnotes #194
Sold for 214,200 GBP in July 2022 Here, a curtain opens to reveal the Virgin and Child; the edges are left open to give a sense of expanse into a distant landscape beyond. The path to the left of the composition leads past the penitent Saint Jerome towards a rare depiction of an early Christian tomb,…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Master of Alcira’s Saint Michael the Archangel, with Footnotes #193
Michael is mentioned three times in the Book of Daniel, once as a “great prince who stands up for the children of your people”. The idea that Michael was the advocate of the Jews became so prevalent that, in spite of the rabbinical prohibition against appealing to angels as intermediaries between God and his people,…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski’s The Maharadja’s entourage, with footnotes #115
Sold for EUR 8,963 in Apr 2004 Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a “great ruler”, “great king” or “high king”. A few ruled states informally called empires. The ‘Title inflation’ soon led to most being rather mediocre or even petty in real power, which led to compound titles being used in an attempt to distinguish some among…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina’s Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with Footnotes #192
Saint Catherine of Alexandria is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar, who became a Christian around the age of fourteen, and converted hundreds of people…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Gustave Boulanger’s Tribute, with footnotes #114
Sold for 107,100 GBP in March 2022A young emir and his entourage, resting in the shade of the forest – perhaps resting on a journey – receive a passing traveller. The latter, in a crimson outer robe, his horse left untethered behind the great baobab tree, appears to offer the young nobleman a talisman of some kind,…
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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 46
In the sixteenth century when Spain became a world power with vast possessions and sources of wealth in the New World, as well as possessions dotted about Europe, it might have been expected that a vigorous national school of painting would emerge, transforming the somewhat tentative or imitative character that painting in Spain had shown…
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02 Works, Interpretation of the bible, Caravaggio’s Christ Crowned with Thorns, with Footnotes #191
The subject of the Crowning of Thorns was well suited to interpretation by Caravaggesque painters, whose preference for intense staging and dramatic lighting matched its harsh realism… Please follow link for full post
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01 Orientalist Painting, Nils Forsberg’s The Dance of the Almeh, with footnotes #113
Estimated for 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in October 2022Almah (Egyptian dancer), was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily. They were educated girls of good social standing, trained in dancing, singing and poetry, present at festivals and entertainments, and…
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02 Works, Interpretation of the bible, The Dead Christ supported by an Angel, with Footnotes #190
An interpretation of a subject often described as the Cristo passo – a theme explored in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Venetian representations by Bellini, Antonello da Messina, Cima da Conegliano and others… Please follow link for full post
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03 Works, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Ellie Burelli’s Amazons, with footnotes #39
The legendary Amazons were thought to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern-day Turkey near the southern shore of the Black Sea. There they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen named Hippolyta… Please follow link for full post
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01 Orientalist Painting, Alberto Pasini’s Watering the Horses, with footnotes #112
Sold for 47,880 GBP in October 2022 Alberto Pasini (Busseto, 3 September 1826 – Cavoretto, 15 December 1899) was an Italian painter. He was enrolled at the age of 17 years, in the Academy of Fine Art of Parma, studying landscape painting and drawing. In Parma, he was helped early on by Antonio Pasini, who painted for…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Federico Ferrario’s Mary and St. Peter Consoling Each Other, with Footnotes #188
The episode of the painting refers to the triple denial in which St. Peter, according to the canonical Gospels, three times rejected the accusations of being a follower of Jesus. After this denial, the synoptic gospels report the repentance of Peter, often depicted while crying, but in our canvas, he is in the presence of…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Rome , Circle of Jacob de Backer’s Porcia, wife of Brutos, with footnotes #38
Sold for 12,500 GBP in December 2011 Porcia Catonis’ (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), famous second marriage was to her first cousin, Marcus Junius Brutus, the close friend of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar who plotted his murder. Information about Porcia comes from ancient sources such as Plutarch, and most of it has a decidedly literary quality.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jacob de Backer’s Allegory of Christian patience, with Footnotes #187
A Naked, young woman in a half-sitting position, leaning against a rock to which she is chained. Head and eyes raised to the heavens, in her left hand she is holding a crucifix. A putto with a laurel wreath in her left hand and a palm branch in her right hand flies over her head.…
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