Tag: Tiepolo
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86 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – 58 Old Master Artists Portray The Life of Abraham, with footnotes, #10
Terah (Azar, in Arabic) the tenth in descent from Noah (Nuh), begat three sons, according to the Bible’s internal chronology, Abraham was born in the year 1948 from Creation (1813 BCE), Abram (Ibrahim ibn Azar), Nahor, and Haran. Haran begat Lot (who was thus Abram’s nephew), and died in his native city, Ur of the…
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27 Artists embedded with the First Crusade, Jerusalem Delivered, with footnotes # 36
Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli (17 April 1604 – 12 July 1656) was an Italian painter of…
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27 Artists embedded with the First Crusade, Jerusalem Delivered, with footnotes # 36
Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli (17 April 1604 – 12 July 1656) was an Italian painter of…