Tag: RELIGIOUS ICONS
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07 Icons, RELIGIOUS ART – Icons from the 14 and 15 Centuries, with footnotes – 5
The arrangement and combination of subjects in this devotional triptych were common throughout the Florentine Trecento and early Quattrocento, a tried and tested formula which found its origin in Bernardo Daddi’s Bigallo Triptych of 1333, in the Museo del Bigallo, Florence. The left wing depicts the Nativity; the right wing shows the Crucifixion. The pinnacles…
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Richard Williams, Salome 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 26
Richard Williams, (American, 20th Century) Salome, 2016 Oil on canvas 48 x 30 in. Private collection Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the…
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03 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 43
Georges Moreau de Tours (1848-1901) Une stigmatisée au Moyen-Age, 19e siècl A stigmatized in the Middle Ages, 19th century Oil on wood Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes Stigmata is a term used by members of the Christian faith to describe body marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus…
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03 Russian Icons from the Bible, with footnotes, #13
Eastern Europe, Russia, ca. 18th century CE Egg tempera and gold leaf 61.625″ L x 19.75″ H (156.5 cm x 50.2 cm) Private collection A portable iconostasis comprised of 15 folding hinged panels including a central double panel with 14 side panels presenting 4 finely painted registers, each icon identified in handwritten Cyrillic. The uppermost…
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04 Carvings, Biblical Carvings & Sculpture from Mexico With Footnotes 5
Mexican Painted Wood Christ – After Crucifixion Mexico, 18th century CE. An expressive and beautiful wooden carving of Christ, seated , wearing a red cape and a crown of thorns. Small patches of color – the cape, the green of the crown, and small blue dots on the eyes – draw the viewers’ attention. The…
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07 Icons, RELIGIOUS ART – Icons from the Bible, with footnotes – 5
Lorenzo di Bicci (c. 1350 – 1427) DOCUMENTED IN FLORENCE 1370 – 1427 A PORTABLE TRIPTYCH SHOWING THE MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRONED WITH SAINTS, WITH THE ANNUNCIATION, NATIVITY, AND CRUCIFIXION DEPICTED ON THE WINGS tempera on panel, gold ground, pointed tops central panel: 73.9 by 39.8 cm.; 29 by 15 5/8 in. wings, each: 56.4 by…
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