Tag: Religious Art
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08 Works, November 17th. is Agnolo Bronzino day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #242
Il Bronzino (born November 17, 1503, Florence [Italy]—died November 23, 1572, Florence) was a Florentine painter whose polished and elegant portraits are outstanding examples of the Mannerist style… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Rupert BUNNY’s Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria, with Footnotes – #60
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 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Eugene Berman’s The Masked Annunciation, with Footnotes – #59
Sold for US$1,147.50 in December 2022 In 1942, Berman worked on several sketch versions of the Masked Annunciation. The most finished version is in the permanent collection of the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida, but there are two other unsigned and undated versions illustrated in The Graphic Work of Eugene Berman (E.…
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09 works, Today, October 28th, is Judas Cyriacus’s day, his story illustrated #299
Adam Elsheimer, Elsheime, German painter and printmaker, recognized as an important figure in the development of 17th-century landscape painting, noted especially for his atmospheric use of light…. Please follow link for full post
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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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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Helisena Girl’s Maeia with child, with Footnotes – #57
Sold for €1,100 EUR in Mar 2023 Maria with child or Madonna and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition…
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03 Religious Icons, Workshop of Andrea di Nerio’s Nativity; Dormition of the Virgin and Assumption of the Virgin, with footnotes #51
Andrea di Nerio was the leading painter in Arezzo in the middle decades of the 14th Century. As an artistic personality, he only became clearly defined with the discovery of a signature on a painting of the Annunciation in the Museo Diocesano, Arezzo in the mid-20th Century; before that, he was known by documentary evidence…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Northern Netherlands’ Entombment of Christ, with Footnotes – #130
Sold for € 10.200 in March 2023 The burial of Jesus refers to the burial of the body of Jesus after crucifixion, before the eve of the sabbath described in the New Testament. According to the canonical gospel accounts, he was placed in a tomb by a councillor of the sanhedrin named Joseph of Arimathea. In…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Elizabeth – with footnotes #203
The Mother of God and the Christ Child are in the company of John the Baptist and his mother, Elizabeth. This devotional painting radiates quietude of a virtually sublime character. The pictorial type known as ‘sacra conversazione’ (sacred conversation) was extremely popular. Successful artists like Bellini produced several versions of it, combining figures based on…
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09 Works, Today, July 20th, is Prophet Elias’s day, his story in art #201 With Footnotes
Elijah was a prophet and a miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy’s Saint Margaret of Antioch, with Footnotes – part #223
Estimated for 15,000 – 20,000 USD in October 2022 This panel once formed the right wing of a devotional triptych, and it is a recent addition to the corpus of the Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy. More on this work St. Margaret of Antioch, also called St. Marina, (flourished 3rd or 4th century, Antioch, Syria),…
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07 Works, Today, June 18th, is martyr Saints Leontius, Hypatius and Theodolus’s day, their story in Paintings #169
Saints Leontius, Hypatius and Theodolus were Roman soldiers who, according to Christian tradition, were martyred for their faith… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Daniele da Volterra’s The Madonna of the Zodiac – with footnotes #202
Estimate for 100,000 – 150,000 USD in Jan 2023 On the present sheet the light falls strongly from the left, enhancing the voluminous and heavy draped cloth which, covering the Madonna’s plaited hair, falls down behind her back to create two large folds to the side of her right hip. These, like waves, return to…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Rose Datoc Dall’s First News of the Resurrection, with Footnotes – #53
The women disciples who went to the Savior’s tomb that first Easter Sunday, to anoint His body with spices. They encountered an angel who told them that Jesus has risen. They were told to spread the news to the disciples. These women were the first bearers of news of the resurrection. Filipina-American artist, Rose Datoc…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, August Groh’s Diana hunting, with footnotes #40
Sold for 5500.00 € in March 2023 The goddess with her entourage hunting a deer that flees into the water on a rocky cliff! Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside, hunters, crossroads, and the Moon. She is equated with the Greek goddess Artemis, and absorbed much of…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART, IGian Girolamo Bonesi’s Madonna with Child and San Giovannino – with footnotes #207
Sold for €4,800 EUR in May 2023 Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi (1653–1725) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Bologna. He was the pupil of the painter Giovanni Maria Viani, but followed the style of Carlo Cignani. He painted a St Francis of Sales kneeling before the Virgin for the church of…
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05 Works, Today, May 7th is San Acacio’s day, With Footnotes – #128
The Holy Martyr Acacius, who lived mostly in the III Century, was born at Cappadocia and was a centurion of the Martesian regiment under the military officer Firmus… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder’s The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man – with footnotes #203
The scene is a reference to Genesis 2:8–14 and hosts a variety of animals, presumably 100, from diverse ecosystems. There is a Capuchin Monkey from South America, hidden to the left, who bites into an apple to symbolize the sin about the be committed by Adam and Eve… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART, Juan De Flandes’ Deposition from the Cross – with footnotes #206
Estimated for €2,500.00 in Feb 2023 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…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Alphonse Legros’ Femmes en Prière/ Women at prayer – with footnotes #201
This work portrays a group of mainly young women, seated or kneeling to pray, in a dimly lit austere French church. The women are all dressed in black with primarily white caps. One cannot conceive anything more gently touching than this grand and pensive scheme, where all is on the same lofty level – sentiment,…
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