RELIGIOUS – Page 3 – Zaidan Gallery

1 Religious Icon, Spanish School’s Annunciation, with footnotes #18

Oct 9, 2022

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The Virgin appears kneeling in front of a table decorated with a red cloth with gold trim.. The arrival of the archangel has caused the Virgin to put down her book and turn her face to observe the unexpected visitor. Saint Gabriel, is in the act of approaching the Virgin. In his left hand he…

01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Quentin Massys the Elder’s Lamentation, with Footnotes – #192

Aug 18, 2022

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This Lamentation is a very close copy of a lost prototype that Massys executed in the 1520s. Here, the artist depicts a dead Christ lying in his mother’s arms after his crucifixion on Calvary. Christ is shown naked, his sides flanked by a white drapery that cushions his head, which the Virgin is supporting with…

1 Religious Icon, Bartolo di Fredi’s Saint Anthony Abbot, with footnotes #14

Aug 7, 2022

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Saint Anthony or Antony (251–356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony by various epithets: Anthony the Great, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, and Anthony of Thebes. For his importance among the Desert Fathers…

1 Religious Icon, George Klontzas’ Three Church Hierarchs, with footnotes #12

Jul 15, 2022

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The Saints are depicted against a gold ground, in frontal position with elongated bodies and relatively small heads, each making a blessing gesture and holding a jewelled closed Book of Gospels, robed in precious bishop’s garments with striking geometric ornament of crosses set within squares and circles of a type worn during the Byzantine period. More…

01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jan Lievens’ Pilate Washing his Hands, with Footnotes – #186

Jul 3, 2022

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The Roman governor Pilate thinks that Jesus hasn’t done much harm and wants to let him go. But the Jewish priests and the crowd make him punish Jesus anyway. By washing his hands, Pilate shows he feels no responsibility for the events. In the background to the right Jesus is taken away. Jan Lievens was…

02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski’s Mohammedan paradise – with footnotes #196

Jun 7, 2022

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The Koran has for its subject matter death, resurrection, judgment, paradise, and hell. The joys of paradise are designed to satisfy fundamental desires in man. All who die for the cause of their religion go to paradise. This Mohammedan paradise is made delightful by beautiful black- eyed maidens (houris) not made of common clay. They…

01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – School of Prague’s Ecce Homo, With Footnotes – 179

Apr 25, 2022

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Ecce homo are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of John 19:5, when he presents a scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. The Douay-Rheims Bible translates the phrase into English as “Behold the man!” [John 19:5] The scene has been…

04 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, American artist Deborah Lanino, with Footnotes. #200

Apr 10, 2022

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American artist Deborah Lanino has a unique connection to the art world. As a direct descendant of Bernardino Lanino, a successful Renaissance painter from Vercelli, Italy over 400 years ago, she finds this connection imbues her fusion of impressionism and expressionism with a unique insight… Please follow link for full post

01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Pier Francesco Foschi’s Madonna with child and the John the Baptist, With Footnotes – #124

Mar 30, 2022

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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, or Madonna and Child with Saint Anne, is a subject in Christian art showing Saint Anne with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, and her grandson Jesus. This depiction has been popular in Germany and neighboring countries since the 14th century. The relationship of St. Anne to the immaculate…

13 Drawings – RELIGIOUS ART – Drawings from the Bible by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn

Mar 28, 2022

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This is the first of two scenes in which Rembrandt depicted different aspects of the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac. Here Abraham beckons his son with his hand raised heavenward indicating that his sacrifice is a result of obedience to God. Etching and burin work combined with selective wiping of the plate produce an…

02 Works, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! The Vale of Rest, With Footnotes – 45

Mar 25, 2022

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This painting is Honeyman’s interpretation of John Everett Millais’ The Vale of Rest, below. Josh Honeyman lives near Blackheath close to the highest point of the Blue Mountains. He takes us there, into visionary landscapes, reimagining the world through a host of signs, symbols and haunting scenarios. Arcane narratives are suggested, ones steeped in myth,…

01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! Borys Fiodorowicz’s Madonna and Madonna. With Footnotes – #44

Mar 14, 2022

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A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna, meaning ‘my lady’. The term Madonna in the sense of “picture or statue of the Virgin Mary” enters English usage in the…

01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Guido Cagnacci’s Martha blames Mary for her Vanity, With Footnotes # 48H

Feb 25, 2022

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This is no ordinary representation of Mary Magdalene, who became a follower of Christ and later, a saint. Traditionally shown holding a skull and contemplating her morality, here she lies almost naked on the ground, begged by her virtuous sister Martha to abandon her sinful life of vice and luxury. Virtue, a blond-haired angel, chases…

38 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Artists’ interpretation of Lot and His Daughters over the decades, with Footnotes – #136

Jan 21, 2022

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Jan Wellens de Cock (c. 1480–1527) was a Flemish painter and draftsman of the Northern Renaissance. He was probably born in Leiden in Holland but settled in Antwerp. In 1506 Jan is recorded in the archives of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp as having accepted an apprentice called ‘Loduwyck’. It is unclear in…

01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, The Three Marys, With Footnotes – 133

Jan 10, 2022

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The central figure of Maria of Nazareth, as a celebration of motherhood; she is holding a white lily, the symbol of the Annunciation. The woman standing to the left, with thick luxurious waves of dark hair and holding the pot of ointment with which Mary Magdalene anointed Christ’s feet. The last of the women depicted…

1 Russian Icon, with footnotes #5

Jan 18, 2021

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Nimbus hallmarked ornamental. Image-filling representation of the seated Virgin in three-quarter figure, holding the crucifix with the crucified Christ in her hands. About her green tunic she wears the red maphorion which is contoured by white and black shades. a western-style transparent head-cover complimented by the traditional maphorion. The halo is finely tooled.Okhtyrka, also known by its Russian variant…

09 works, Today, December 1st, is Saint Eligius’ day, his story, illustrated #334

Dec 1, 2020

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Saint Eligius, aka Saint Eloy, (June 588–1 December 660 AD) was chief counsellor to Dagobert I, Merovingian king of France. Appointed the bishop of Noyon-Tournai three years after the king’s death in 642, Eligius worked for 20 years to convert the pagan population of Flanders to Christianity… Please follow link for full post

Gabriel Cornelius von (Ritter) Max, St. Lucy, 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 131

Aug 21, 2020

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The emblem of eyes on a cup or plate apparently reflects popular devotion to her as protector of sight. In paintings St. Lucy is frequently shown holding her eyes on a golden plate. She also holds the palm branch, symbol of victory over evil. More The emblem of eyesSaint Lucy, Italian Santa Lucia (died 304, Syracuse, Sicily), virgin…

B A H M A N, The warrior 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – #48

Jul 29, 2020

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An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies. In Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and Humanity.[1][2] Other roles of angels include protecting and guiding human beings, and carrying out God’s tasks. More on Angels B A H…

Dimitrios Biskinis; Saint George and the Death/ The joust 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 130

Jun 11, 2020

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Saint George (circa 275/281 – 23 April 303 AD) was a soldier in the Roman army who later became venerated as a Christian martyr. His parents were Christians of Greek background; his father Gerontius was a Roman army official from Cappadocia and his mother Polychronia was from Lydda, Syria Palaestina. Saint George became an officer in…

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