Tag: Religious Art
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, André LHOTE’s The judgment of Paris, with footnotes #28
THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS was a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos–Aphrodite, Hera and Athena–for the prize of a golden apple addressed “To the Fairest.” The story began with the wedding of Peleus and Thetis which all the gods had been invited to attend except for Eris, goddess of discord. When Eris appeared…
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34 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Artist’s interpretation of the Martyrdom of St. Agatha, With Footnote 36
Lorenzo di Niccolò or Lorenzo di Niccolò di Martino was an Italian painter active in Florence from 1391 to 1412. Often erroneously cited as the son of Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, with whom he realized some works, this artist transformed his style from one more reminiscent of Giotto to one more elegant and linear, similar…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Francesco Furinis Rachel giving birth to Joseph, with Footnotes – #178
Rachel is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 29 when Jacob happens upon her as she is about to water her father’s flock. She was the second daughter of Laban. Jacob had traveled a great distance to find Laban. His mother Rebekah had sent him there to be safe from his furious twin brother,…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Alexandra Manukyan’s Forest Awakening, with footnotes # 38
A Nymph of the Woods in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Adriaen van der Werff’s The repudiation of Hagar, With Footnotes – #177
Hagar is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis Chapter 16. She was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, who gave her to Abraham “to wife” to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham’s firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. After Sarah gave birth to Isaac, and the tension between the women…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Francesco Francia’s VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH SAN PETRONIO AND SAINT FRANCIS, With Footnotes – #184
Saint Petronius (died ca. 450 AD) was bishop of Bologna during the fifth century. He is a patron saint of the city. Born of a noble Roman family, he became a convert to Christianity and subsequently a priest. As bishop of Bologna, he built the Church of Santo Stefano. More on Saint Petronius The Virgin…
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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 6…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, NORMAN LINDSAY’s Leda and the Swan, with footnotes # 37
Leda, in Greek legend, usually believed to be the daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, and wife of Tyndareus, king of Lacedaemon. She was also believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had approached and seduced her in the form of a swan) of the other twin, Pollux, and of Helen, both of whom…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Latin American Painting of Mary with Jesus, with Footnotes – #183
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin 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 in many parts of…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Noël-Nicolas Coypel’s HOLY FAMILY AND HOLY YEAR, With Footnotes – #182
The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a Confraternity. Matthew and Luke narrate the episodes from this period of Christ’s life, namely his…
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06 Works, Today, May 10th is Saint Thais’ day, With Footnotes – #131
José de Ribera (January 12, 1591 — September 2, 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, better known as Jusepe de Ribera. He also was called Lo Spagnoletto (“the Little Spaniard”) by his contemporaries and early writers. Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy. Longing…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Henri Fantin-Latour’s Stabat Mater, wh Footnotes – 181
The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ’s mother during his crucifixion. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III. The title comes from its first line, “Stabat Mater dolorosa”, which means “the sorrowful mother was standing” More on…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Albert von Keller’s The resurrection of Jairus’ daughter, with Footnotes – #180
The Raising of Jairus’ daughter is a combination of miracles of Jesus in the Gospels.Jairus, a patron or ruler of a Galilee synagogue, asked Jesus to heal his 12-year-old daughter. Jesus continued to the house, where he “saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.” He informed all those present that the girl was not…
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39 Works by Old Masters Artists Embedded with Helen of Troy, with Footnotes
Throughout his career, Gustave Moreau showed remarkable fidelity to the character of Hélène de Troie by devoting an exceptionally rich ensemble to her. Main rival of Salomé in the heart of the artist, the most beautiful woman of antiquity appeared in his work in 1852, then returned triumphantly in the company of Galatea on the…
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45 Works, Leda and the Swan, art from the Greek myth, with footnotes
Paul Beckert was taught in the Dresden and Munich academies. He married Anna Leontine von Frank in 1883, which gained him access to a broad network of patrons in the Prussian aristocracy. He portrayed Emperor William I and Field Marshall Moltke (now in the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz) among many others. More on Paul Beckert Leda and…
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07 Works, Today, April 10th, is Gregory V of Constantinople’s day, With Footnotes – #97
Gregory V (Georgios Angelopoulos), (1746–22 April 1821) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808 and from 1818 to 1821. He was responsible for much restoration work to the Patriarchal Cathedral of St George, which had been badly damaged by fire in 1738… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Today, April 7th, is Jean-Baptiste de La Salle’s day, With Footnotes – #94
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (April 30, 1651 — April 7, 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for teachers of youth. He is referred to both as La Salle and as De La…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Master with the parrot’s Madonna with Grapes, With Footnotes – 178
As a master with the parrot or parrot master a group of unidentified Flemish painter is referred to, who operated around 1520 or 1530 probably in Antwerp a joint workshop. The distress was first given to the painter of several panel paintings of Mary with the Jesus boy, on which the child feeds a parrot.…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Johann Christophorus Storer’s Judith and Holofernes, With Footnotes – #177
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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