Tag: religion
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05 Religious Ivory Carvings, Christ Blessing, the Crucifixion, the Virgin with Child and a saint flagellating himself and holding a crucifix, with footnotes #15
Estimated at 20.000 € — 25.000 € on 20.05.2023 Depiction of Christ enthroned and looking towards the viewer; His right hand raised in blessing, He also holds a chalice in His outstretched left hand, referring to the Eucharist. The high-quality ivory carving, designed for a frontal viewpoint, is particularly notable for the detailed observation of the folds…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Julio Romero Torres’ Samaritan Woman, With Footnotes #128
This work shows the Biblical scene of Jesus Christ with the Samaritan woman and starts the series of religious works painted by Julio Romero de Torres. Nevertheless, this work is the only example in which appears the face of Jesus in the shadows. However, the female figure, whose model was Conchita Castillo, has the leading…
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11 Works, Artists’ Interpretations of Hellenic legends, The Rape of Deianira, with footnotes #188
Deianira, Deïanira was a Calydonian princess in Greek mythology whose name translated as “man-destroyer” or “destroyer of her husband”. She was the wife of Heracles and, in late Classical accounts, his unwitting murderer, killing him with the poisoned Shirt of Nessus. She is the main character in Sophocles’ play Women of Trachis… Please follow link…
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01 Painting, Tales of Mermaids, Evelyn De Morgan’s Sea Maidens, with Footnotes, #13
The Sea Maidens shows five long-haired mermaids. Their tails are inside the water, while their upper bodies are outside. They affectionately hold hands, four of them almost embracing, reaching for a fifth one, slightly separated from the group. It is a delicate depiction of sisterhood; it emanates strength by boasting an iconography of femininity at…
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04 Works, Contemporary Interpretation of Olympian deities, Antoine Renault’s Mermaids, with footnotes #31
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 first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Olympian deities, Paolo de Matteis’ Amphitrite, with footnotes #30
Amphitrite, in Greek mythology, the goddess of the sea, wife of the god Poseidon, and one of the 50 (or 100) daughters (the Nereids) of Nereus and Doris (the daughter of Oceanus). Poseidon chose Amphitrite from among her sisters as the Nereids performed a dance on the isle of Naxos. Refusing his offer of marriage, she…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georges Bertin Scott’s The Charge, with footnotes, #105
Georges Bertin Scott (10 June 1873 – 10 January 1943) was a French war correspondent and illustrator for the French magazine L’Illustration during the early 20th century. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He produced paintings of the Balkan Wars and the First World War,…
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13 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Story of Tamar, Daughter in Law of Judah, with Footnotes. #186
In the Book of Genesis, Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah. She is first described as marrying Judah’s eldest son, Er. Because of his wickedness, Er was killed by God. By way of a levirate union, Judah asked his second son, Onan, to provide offspring for Tamar… Included artists: Tintoretto, Jacob Willemsz. de Wet the…
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01 Work, Olympian deities, Nicolas Bertin’s Perseus and Andromeda, with footnotes #31
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia’s hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment. Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice…
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16 Paintings scenes from the Bible, by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Otto van Veen, Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Giovanni Lanfranco, The Caravaggisti, Joseph Heiss, Pietro Novelli and Jean Restout , with footnotes #26
In Christian theology the nativity marks the incarnation of Jesus as the second Adam, in fulfillment of the divine will of God, undoing the damage caused by the fall of the first man, Adam. The artistic depiction of the nativity has been a major subject for Christian artists since the 4th century. Since the 13th…
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02 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Slasky San Michele, after Luca Giordano, with Footnotes – #52
Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel or Saint Michael the Taxiarch in Orthodoxy. The earliest surviving mentions of his name are in 3rd- and 2nd-century BCE Jewish works, often but not always apocalyptic, where he is the chief of the angels and archangels and responsible for the care of Israel… Please follow link for…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Luis Ricardo Falero’s young player with the statue of Pan, with Footnotes, #91
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is also recognized as the god…
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01 Work, Olympian deities, Angelo Josef Graf von Courten’s Die Nixe, with footnotes #29
The Nixe is a term widely used in German-speaking countries for a female or male water spirit; a kind of supernatural being found in the folklore of many cultures. Angelo Josef Graf von Courten (born January 10, 1848 in Bologna , † December 15, 1925 in Munich ) was a German painter of Swiss descent. Courten came…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Francesco Cairo’s Scena Biblica/ Biblical Scene, with Footnotes – #126
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 foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the enemy general, Holofernes, with whom…
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