Tag: Religious Art
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Sax Berlin’s The Lost Frescoes of St Magdalene, with Footnotes – #47
Magdalene is shown from above lying on her bed, her hair wrapped around her body. Her identity disfigured by iconoclasts. More on this painting Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Giuseppe Simonelli’s Battle of the Centaurs against the Lapiths, with footnotes # 47
The battle depicted takes place between the Lapiths and the Centaurs at the wedding feast of Pirithous. Pirithous, king of the Lapith, had long clashed with the neighboring Centaurs. To mark his good intentions Pirithous invited the Centaurs to his wedding to Hippodamia. Some of the Centaurs, over-imbibed at the event, and when the bride…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Frank Eugene’s Adam and Eve, with Footnotes – #44
Eugene’s interest in a variety of artistic media is seen in the bold manipulation of his negatives. He used paintbrushes, etching needles, and pencils to rework his compositions, thus proclaiming their status as art. This photogravure—a print created from a photomechanically etched copper plate—depicts a classic subject from the annals of art history, the deep…
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05 Paintings of Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religions; Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids, with footnotes
In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the North African kingdom of Aethiopia (the Upper Nile region). Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832–23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving. Doré was born in Strasbourg on…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Widayat, Haji’s Adam and Eve in Paradise, with Footnotes – #46
Struck by a nationalistic fervor that had emerged from post-independence Indonesia, artists strove to articulate a recognizable Indonesian identity in their works. Moved by similar desires, Javanese artist Haji Widayat shifted from the predominantly Dutch Bandung school to the Indonesian-run ASRI academy in Yogyakarta. Under the tutelage of Hendra Gunawan, Widayat’s work transitioned from the…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, FLEMISH SCHOOL’s Cephalus and Procris, with footnotes # 46
Cephalus was married to Procris, a daughter of Erechtheus, an ancient founding-figure of Athens. One day the goddess of dawn, Eos, kidnapped Cephalus when he was hunting. The resistant Cephalus and Eos became lovers, and she bore him a son. However, Cephalus always pined for Procris, causing a disgruntled Eos to return him to her, making…
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10 works, Today, October 4th, is Saint Francis of Assisi’s day, his story illustrated #276
In the Chapel of San Gregorio in the lower church at Subiaco can be found the earliest portrait of St Francis. This fresco represents him without halo and stigmata, therefore it was probably made before 1224, when he received the stigmata. More on this work Born circa 1181, in Assisi, duchy of Spoleto, Italy, Saint…
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02 Paintings, Olympian deities, Antiope and Dirce, with footnotes # 45
Dirce was a daughter of the river-gods Achelous or Ismenus, or of Helios. After Zeus impregnated Antiope, Antiope fled in shame to King Epopeus of Sicyon, but was brought back by Lycus through force, giving birth to the twins Amphion and Zethus on the way. Lycus gave Antiope to Dirce. Dirce hated Antiope and treated…
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01 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Maurizio Cattelan’s UNTITLED, with Footnotes – #42
Imbued with a profound sense of horror and urgency, Untitled is an image of death, subversion and iconoclasm powerfully rendered through Maurizio Cattelan’s unique language of extreme provocation. Executed in 2007, the life-size sculpture depicts a young girl dressed in a white nightgown, her hands nailed to wooden boards above her head in pseudo-crucifixion. The…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Winifred Knights’ The Deluge, with Footnotes – #193
You can see Noah’s Ark in the distant right while figures in the foreground scramble for higher ground. Steely gray water fills up the scene and dulls the landscape; keep in mind that this was painted shortly after the end of the First World War when Britain was still recovering. Art historian Georgina Coburn writes…
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05 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian/Roman legend, Ceri Richards’ Rape of the Sabines, with footnotes #24
The theme of the rape of the Sabine women, taken from Roman legend, was a recurring subject in academic history painting. The story of the abduction of the women of the Sabine tribe by the men of Rome in order to populate the city presented a theme through which Richards could further his interest in…
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1 Religious Icon, Sano di Pietro’s Saint Margaret, with footnotes #16
Margaret is celebrated as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches on July 20 and on July 17 in the Orthodox Church. Her historical existence has been questioned. She was declared apocryphal by Pope Gelasius I in 494, but devotion to her revived in the West with the Crusades. She was reputed to have…
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09 works, Today, August 28th, is Moses the Black’s day, his story illustrated #240
Moses the Black (330–405), also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian , and the Strong, was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father. According to stories about him, he converted from a life of crime to one of asceticism. Moses was a servant of…
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01 Sculpture, Olympian deities, Scipione Tadolini’s GREEK SLAVE, with footnotes
About the sculpture. This elegantly conceived figure of a Greek Slave is one of Scipione Tadolini’s defining masterpieces. Tadolini was the eldest son and inheritor of Antonio Canova’s principal studio assistant, Adamo Tadolini, and, like his father, he rapidly emerged as one of the leading sculptors in Rome during his lifetime. The superbly carved and…
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08 Mosaic , Olympian deities, Roman wall painting from Pompeii, with footnotes, #10
Eros brought by Peïtho to Venus; Anteros laughs at him because he is being punished for having chosen the wrong target. In Greek mythology, Peitho is the goddess who personifies persuasion and seduction. Her Roman equivalent is Suada or Suadela. She is the goddess of charming speech. She is typically presented as an important companion…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Circle of Hans von Aachen’s The Last Supper, with Footnotes – 188
It is interesting for me is the artist’s blatant incorporating Mary Magdalene alongside Jesus. The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as “Holy Communion” or “The Lord’s Supper”. The…
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01 Religious Icon, A saint flagellating himself and holding a crucifix, with footnotes #15
Ivory, carved in relief. Representation of a saint flagellating himself and holding a crucifix. In the lower area depiction of a skull (Memento-Mori). Several cherubim appear in the upper area. More on this relief The Flagellation, in a Christian context, refers to an episode in the Passion of Christ prior to Jesus’ crucifixion. The practice of mortification…
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09 works, Today, August 15th, is the Dormition of the Virgin Mary day, her story illustrated #227
Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836–8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Louis Welden Hawkins’ Muse Erato on a Deserted Beach, with footnotes # 44
In Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Greek Muses. The name would mean “desired” or “lovely”, if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica. Erato is the Muse of love poetry. In the Orphic hymn to the Muses,…
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