Tag: Religious Art
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Luca Giordano’s LOT, WITH HIS TWO DAUGHTERS FLEEING FROM THE BURNING CITY OF SODOM, With Footnotes – #125
Lot, with a critical, thoughtful look, his head is slightly turned back, followed by one of the daughters, also wearing a white bandana. Her liberally painted upper body already points to the later known sequence of events. More on this painting Lot was a patriarch in the biblical Book of Genesis. Notable episodes in his…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, Pavol Kajan’s Venus Anadyomene, with footnotes #27
Venus Anadyomene, “Venus Rising From the Sea”), is one of the iconic representations of the goddess Venus, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in Pliny’s Natural History, with the anecdote that the great Apelles employed Campaspe, a mistress of Alexander the Great, for his model. The subject never entirely…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Antwerp School’s The Holy Trinity , With Footnotes – 148
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity holds that God is one God, but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases — the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit — as “one God in three Divine Persons”. The three Persons are distinct, yet are one “substance, essence or nature”. In this context, a “nature” is what one is,…
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01 Painting, Olympian and Roman deities, Francesco Trevisani’s LUCRETIA, with footnotes #192
Lucretia, legendary heroine of ancient Rome. According to tradition, she was the beautiful and virtuous wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus. Her tragedy began when she was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the tyrannical Etruscan king of Rome. After exacting an oath of vengeance against the Tarquins from her father…
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07 Works, Today, March 4th, is Saint Gerasimus’s Day, With Footnotes – #62
Gerasimus of the Jordan was a Christian saint, monk and abbot of the 5th century AD. He was born into a wealthy family in the the southern part of Asia Minor, but he left his family wealth and worldly affairs to become a monk. He attended the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451 AD.…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Johann Liss’ THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT MARY MAGDALENE, With Footnotes – #147
In this painting, the repentant Mary Magdalene is shown with bare breasts and clasped hands, holding a skull to her body. On the left an Oriental old woman in a turban bows and offers her vessels made of gold, symbols of temptation. The saint’s rich clothing additionally hints at her sinful past. The skull similarly…
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02 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities by Patrick Palmer, with footnotes #26
“I have left a lot of the painting unfinished — or even left out altogether in places — to maintain the focal point (the face) and to keep the simple key lines and design working together.” Patrick Palmer “Triptych inspired by the 3 muses. Whilst an element of realism is important, I try to move beyond artistic convention and…
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06 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible by Sandro Botticelli , With Footnotes #48
Botticelli’s women are renowned as the embodiments of grace, elegance, and beauty. The unique style of the Italian painter — with his idealized, elongated, buoyant figures in flowing tresses and drapery — has become emblematic of the Italian Renaissance, and his works are among the most recognizable in the world. Less well known is the fact that Botticelli, while…
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05 Works, February 21st is Saint Zachariah’s Day, With Footnotes – 51
Saint Zachariah, was the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Church of Jerusalem from 609 to 632. Patr. Zacharias spent most of his patriarchate as a prisoner of the Persian King Chozroes. He is commemorated by the Church on February 21. The early life of Patr. Zacharias is unknown. He was elected patriarch in 609. During…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! By Mertim Gokalp. With Footnotes – #44
The Sacrifice of the Model is a contemporary re-take of Caravaggio’s Entombment of the Christ, has been selected into the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2015 and has been exhibited in the Juniper Hall in Paddington The model used in The Sacrifice of the Model, being held/worshiped by a bunch of renowned, Archibald Award finalist…
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02 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Kaye Miller-Dewing’s Defence of Jerusalem. With Footnotes – #43
“My fascination with history, especially The Crusades, inspires my art: this is my way of travelling back in time. I try to imbue my work with an intensity and passion, hoping to touch the viewer at a deep level. I love to create art with a narrative, and an intrigue, and am thrilled when viewers…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s Adoration of the Magi. With Footnotes – 146
Numerous repetitions of the present work exist with the primary version being the central panel of a triptych listed by Georges Marlier as by the ‘Master of the Musée de L’Assistance Publique’, named after the institution in Brussels where it is housed The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title:…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Susanna and the old men. With Footnotes – #145
A fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Andrea Vaccaro’s Sant ‘Agata, With Footnotes – 123
Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD – 251 AD) is a Christian saint and virgin martyr. Agatha was born at Catania or Palermo, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251. She is one of seven women, who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. She is the…
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08 Carvings, Olympian deities, Classical Sculpture of Greek and Roman religion, Sculpture, with footnotes, #2
Cephalus is a name, used both for the hero-figure in Greek mythology, and carried as a theophoric name by historical persons. The word kephalos is Greek for “head”, perhaps used here because Cephalus was the founding “head” of a great family that includes Odysseus. It could be that Cephalus means the head of the Sun…
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03 Works, Today, January 31st, is Saints Cyrus and John’s Day, With Footnotes – 31
Saints Cyrus and John (d. ca. 304 AD, or 311) are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they are supposed to have healed the sick free of charge. Cyrus and John were both Alexandrians; this, however, is contradicted by other documents in which it is…
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19 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Artists’ interpretation of Tamar with Amnon over the decade, with Footnotes. #182
Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667), known in Italy as Niccolò Renieri, was a painter, art dealer and art collector from the County of Hainaut, a French-speaking part of the Spanish Netherlands. He is often referred to as a Flemish artist because this term was often used to designate people from the Spanish Netherlands. After training in Antwerp,…
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06 Icons, RELIGIOUS ART – Icons from the Bible, Mother of God, with footnotes – #3
Composite of two Hardwood panels with two back side Sponki. Tempera on gesso, partial gilding. Very fine representation of lying on his deathbed Blessed Mother. To the bed is lined with the Twelve Apostles, partly with the Scriptures, some with censers. Behind the Mother of God is Christ before an aureole. He carries the soul…
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