Tag: religion
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Franz von Stuck’s THE DRAGON SLAYER, With Footnotes – #135
Sold for 605,000 GBP in May 2015 The Dragon Slayer is a particularly charged rendition of an age-old theme. Although most of Stuck’s paintings depict scenes from the Antique or the Bible, neither the title The Dragon Slayer nor the iconography reveal the exact story behind the present work. Stuck’s fascination with Greek legends suggests the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Marc Chagall’s Anne Invoque l’Eternel, with Footnotes – #218
Anna (distinguished as Anna the Prophetess), is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in Luke 2:36–38 during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. “There was also a…
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01 Religious Icon, Saint Christopher with the head of a dog, with footnotes #42
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, certain icons covertly identify Saint Christopher with the head of a dog. Such images may carry echoes of the Egyptian dog-headed god, Anubis. Christopher pictured with a dog’s head is not generally supported by the Orthodox Church, as the icon was proscribed in the 18th century by Moscow. The roots of…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Queen Mary Psalter, Twelve year old Christ in the temple, with Footnotes – #206
The Finding in the Temple, also called Christ among the Doctors or the Disputation (the usual names in art), was an episode in the early life of Jesus depicted in chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke. It is the only event of the later childhood of Jesus mentioned in a gospel. Jesus at the age of…
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04 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, B A H M A N’s Leda, with footnotes #33
Leda was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had approached and seduced her in the form of a swan) of the twins, Pollux, and of Helen, both of whom hatched from eggs… Please follow link for full post
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09 Paintings by Orientalist Artist Otto Pilny’s Desert dance scene, with footnotes, #98
Pilny was especially interested in capturing the effects of directional light on the sand and figures in order to evoke a powerful impression, sometimes at the expense of ethnographic accuracy, as in the present work… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Follower of Quentin Massys’ The Virgin and Child with a still life on a ledge, with Footnotes – #204
Estimate for 10,000 – 15,000 GBP in Dec 2022 The composition for this painting is taken from Quentin Massys’s Virgin and Child outdoors dated to about 1526 and preserved in the Detroit Institute of Arts.1 In this particular version, a landscape has been substituted for a warm golden-brown background which pigment analysis has shown to…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Bettina Rheims’s Nouvelle Eve/New Eve, With Footnotes – #43
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 wife and the first woman although she is not specifically named in the Quran. According to the second chapter of Genesis,…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Giuseppe Bonito’s Immaculate Conception, with Footnotes – #202
Sold for 15,240 GBP in May 2023 In Catholic teaching, the Immaculate Conception refers to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Because she was the vessel that would bear the Son of God, she had to be without sin. Her conception was “immaculate” in the sense that her soul never had the stain of original sin that everyone…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Florentine School’s the Virgin’s Annunciate, with Footnotes – #197
Sold for £9,562.50 in 2022 The composition of the present panel is based on the figure of the Virgin from the famous Annunciation of the mid 13th century in the church of Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Painted by a follower of Giotto, it is said that it was completed by a monk called Bartolomeo with the…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists. Cesare Felix Georges dell’ Acqua’s Greek mother, with footnotes, #97
Sold for £938,400 in December 2007 This painting is an archetypal image of the Greek War of Independence and a classic document in the history of 19th century Philhellenism. As noted by F.M. Tsigakou in her seminal book The Rediscovery of Greece. Cesare dell Acqua’s Greek Mother is a scene full of drama and emotion. Frightened…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART, Interpretation of the bible, Adriaen van der Werff’s Entombment, With Footnotes – #138
After Christ’s crucifixion, Matthew writes: ‘As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Rembrandt’s The Great Deposition from the Cross — with footnotes #197
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The…
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08 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of The Bible, William Oxer’s The Grieving Magdalene, with footnotes #46
Mary Magdalene was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection… Please follow link for full post Art,Paintings,warrior,Fine Art,biography,History,Mary Magdalene,mythology,religion,RELIGIOUSART,Zaidan,William Oxer,Ancient,footnotes, #Icon #Bible #biography #History #Jesus #mythology #Paintings #religionart #Saints #Zaidan #footnote #fineart #Calvary #Christ #warrior
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Ermanno Stroiffi’s Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, With Footnotes – #136
Estimated for €8,000 – €12,000 in November 2022 The Bible states that Elijah is a Tishbite from Gilead, who visited King Ahab to give him a message from God that there would be no rain in the land until he declared it. In order to avoid the wrath of the king, God told Elijah to hide by the Brook…
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01 Work, Olympian deities, Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian’s Venus and Adonis, With Footnotes – #136
Sold for 11,164,000 GBP in December 2022 Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash. The goddess’s gesture is echoed by that of Cupid, who anxiously watches the lovers’ leave-taking…
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