Tag: RELIGIOUS
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Wishing you all a very Happy Easter William Adolphe Bouguereau, Three Marys at the Tomb, 01 Painting, Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 47a
Le Saintes Femmes au Tombeau, 1890, translated to The Holy Women at the Tomb, depicts the three Marys, Mary the Mother of James, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Cleophas, at the tomb of the resurrection. The viewer, compositionally, is placed in a prostrated position and looking up first notices the expressions of bewilderment on the central…
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William Oxer FRSA, Nativity 01 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – #41
The nativity of Jesus or birth of Jesus is described in the gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the time of Herod the Great to a betrothed virgin whose name was Mary. There are, however, major differences. Matthew has no census, annunciation to the shepherds or…
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John Shinnors, LOT’S WIFE STUDY, 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 40
In the Bible, Lot’s wife is a figure first mentioned in Genesis. The story of Lot’s wife begins in Genesis 19 after two angels arrived in Sodom at eventide and were invited to spend the night at Lot’s home. The Men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and prompted Lot to offer up these Men/Angels; instead, Lot offered up…
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Kim Byungkwan, The Descent I 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 36
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The…
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Jean Lambert-Rucki, Descent from the Cross 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – #39
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The Descent…
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04 Works, Today, March 1st, is Saint Eudokia’s Day, With Footnotes – #60
Eudokia was a Samarian woman who lived in Heliopolis of Phoenicia (present day Baalbek, Lebanon). Eudokia was very beautiful, and garnered her wealth by attracting wealthy lovers. She learned about Christianity from a monk by the name of Germanus. According to legend, Eudokia asked him if she, too, could be saved from Judgment. Germanos instructed her…
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Roy De Maistre, Our Lady of Walsingham 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Modern Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 39
Our Lady of Walsingham is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by Roman Catholics and Anglicans associated with the Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches, a pious English noblewoman, in 1061 in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England. Lady Richeldis had a building structure named “The Holy House” built in Walsingham which later…
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Vincent Sellaer, Susanna and Elders 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – #133
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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05 Works, Today, February 25th, is Saint Tarasios’ Day, With Footnotes – 55
Saint Tarasios (c. 730 – 25 February 806) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 25 December 784 until his death on 25 February 806. Tarasios was born and raised in the city of Constantinople. He was related to important families, and embarked on a career in the secular administration and had attained the rank of senator,…
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04 Works, Today February 22th, is the Holy Martyrs at the gate of Eugenius at Constantinople’s Day, With Footnotes – #52
During the persecutions against Christians the relics of the holy martyrs were usually buried by believers in hidden places. So at Constantinople, near the gates and tower in the Eugenius quarter, the bodies of several martyrs were found. Their names remain unknown by the Church. When miracles of healing began to occur at this spot,…
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Giacinto Brandi, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – #131
Gethsemane is an urban garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. In Christianity, it is the place where Jesus underwent the agony in the garden and was arrested the night before his crucifixion. Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane refers to the events in the life of Jesus as recorded in the…
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03 Works, Today, February 4th, is Saint Isidore of Pelusium’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Isidore of Pelusium (b. 450) was born in Egypt to a prominent Alexandrian family. He became an ascetic, and moved to a mountain near the city of Pelusium, in the tradition of the Desert Fathers. His parents who saw to his education. They taught him the books of the church, and the Greek language in which he excelled. He was also…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 15, is St. Tatyana Rimskaya’s Day, With Footnotes – 15
Saint Tatiana was a Christian martyr in 3rd-century Rome during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus. She was a deaconess of the early church. According to legend, she was the daughter of a Roman civil servant who was secretly Christian, and raised his daughter in the faith. This was dangerous, and one day the jurist Ulpian…
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Titian, The Madonna and Child 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 129
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 the…
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Renato Guttuso, The CCrucifixion 02 Works, 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 37
Crocifissione is the painting for which Renato Guttuso is best remembered. At the time it was derided by the clergy, who labelled Guttuso a “pictor diabolicus” (“a devilish painter”). The fascists also denounced it for depicting the horrors of war under a religious cover. Guttuso wrote in his diary: “it is the symbol of all those…
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Bolognese School, The Holy Family 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 128
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 Circumcision…
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Hans Baldung Grien, Lot and his daughters 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 127
Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30-38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as…
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Viet Ha Tran, Garden of Eden 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 46
The Garden of Eden, also called Paradise, is the biblical “garden of God” described in the Book of Genesis and the Book of Ezekiel. The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. The Garden of Eden is considered to be mythological by most scholars. Among those…
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Velasco Vitali, Dead Christ 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 36
Velasco Vitali (1960). His debut is marked by the encounter with Giovanni Testori and participation to the show Artists and Writers at Rotonda della Besana, Milan. In 2004 Electa published Velasco 20, a monograph on Giulio Giorello’s first twenty-two years of activity, with a contribution. Extramoenia (2004-2005) is an exhibition set up by the Sicily…
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David Driesbach; Rest on the Flight to Egypt 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 34
Rest on the Flight to Egypt. The scene is based not on any incident in the Bible itself, but on a body of tales or legends that had grown up in the early Middle Ages around the Bible story of the Holy Family fleeing into Egypt for refuge on being warned that Herod the Great was…
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