Tag: Salvador Dalí
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12 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – #7
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Salvador Dalí’s 12 Apostles (Knights of the Round Table) Suite of 12 Lithographs c. 1972, with footnotes
Though there is some discussion surrounding the identification of the figures, they are accepted to be: Christ, James the Lesser, James the Greater, “The Watcher” and Saints Andrew, Mark, John, Peter, Thomas, Jude, Matthew, and Phillip Identification has been made by examination of the images for symbols associated with each of them. More weight has…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., Diane de Poitiers, with Footnotes. #40
Salvador Dalí ‘Diane de Poitiers’, 114/250 Hand-colored drypoint etching 40 x 50 cm Private collection Diane de Poitiers (3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France. She became notorious as King Henry’s chief mistress and in this…
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02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 16
Salvador Dalí The Immaculate Conception, 1979 Color lithograph 23 x 16 in Private collection The Immaculate Conception, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, was the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, free from original sin by virtue of the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ.…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #19
Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, French, 1845-1902 Lady with a Jewel Box (Prima Donna Marguerite in “Jewel Song” of Gounod’s ‘Faust’ Oil on canvas 38 3/4 x 24 1/4 inches (98.5 x 61.5 cm) Private collection Marguerite Bériza (1880 – 1970) was a French opera singer who had an active international career during the first half of the 20th…
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10 Ivory Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 & 16th Century. With Footnote, # 13
Maria lactans, c. mid-15th century, France Ivory Height: 17 cm Private collection The Nursing Madonna, Virgo Lactans, or Madonna Lactans, is an iconography of the Madonna and Child in which the Virgin Mary is shown breastfeeding the infant Jesus. The depiction is mentioned by Pope Gregory the Great, and a mosaic depiction probably of the 12th century…
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