Tag: VIRGIN
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Italian School, 16th Century, THE VIRGIN AND CHRIST AT THE TOMB WITH TWO ANGELS – with footnotes #199
Sold for 245,000 USD in January 2015 The painting was clearly produced by a painter conversant in both Northern and Venetian trends of painting. The composition ultimately derives from a Pietà designed by Michelangelo Buonarotti. It is not known whether Michelangelo executed the eventual painting but his drawing, dated to circa 1546, survives today in the…
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01 Limestone Sculpture, RELIGIOUS ART, French, Normandy, Virgin and Child – with footnotes #187
Sold for 113,400 USD in January 2022This seated Virgin holds a lily-scepter in her proper left hand and supports the Christ Child with her right. She wears a belted gown under an open mantle, the edges of which are decorated with cavities that would have held jewels made from colored glass. The Christ Child stands on…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Rohan Hours’ Lamentation of the Virgin, Nothing has changed in over 2000 years, with Footnotes #212
The grieving Virgin cannot be consoled by the Apostle John, who looks up in consternation at a saddened God. The Grandes Heures de Rohan (The Rohan Hours) is an illuminated manuscript book of hours, painted by the anonymous artist known as the Rohan Master, probably between 1418 and 1425, in the Gothic style. It contains the…
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22 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – 15 & 16th Century Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! With Footnotes
Sold for £1,250 in November 2015 Emile-André Boisseau, (1842–1923) was a French sculptor. A pupil of Auguste Dumont and Jean-Marie Bonnassieux at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, h. His works include a statue of Pierre Beaumarchais on the facade of Paris’ City Hall… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, The Master of the Magdalene Legend’s Virgin and Child, with Footnotes #183
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 EUR in June 2022In the present painting, characteristics typical of the Master of the Magdalene Legend include the graceful modelling of the flesh; the light falling delicately on the faces; the Virgin’s eyes, piously lowered; the finely delineated hair with lighter reflections; and the shadows on the eyelids and neck. More…
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1 Religious Icon, Bernard van Orley’s THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, with footnotes #26
This is one of a number of versions of the composition, the finest of which is a picture formerly in the collection of Friedrich Glück, Budapest, considered by Baldass to be by Van Orley before 1520.1 A workshop version is in the Royal Collection (L. Campbell, The Early Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Parmigianino’s Virgin with Child, St John the Baptist, Magdalene and Zachariah – with footnotes #190
Madonna with St Zachariah dates to the early 1530s, when the artist, who had fled after the Sack of Rome 1527, was staying in Bologna for a few years, focusing on an intense production of altarpieces and paintings for private devotion like this one. The stern gaze of the priest, father of John the Baptist,…
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06 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible by Sandro Botticelli , With Footnotes #48
Botticelli’s women are renowned as the embodiments of grace, elegance, and beauty. The unique style of the Italian painter — with his idealized, elongated, buoyant figures in flowing tresses and drapery — has become emblematic of the Italian Renaissance, and his works are among the most recognizable in the world. Less well known is the fact that Botticelli, while…
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14 Works, December 20th. is Józef Unierzyski’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #252
The Descent from the Cross is considered his best, most stylish and effective work, which — as it was written — “among the gray and quite sterile painting production in those years […] must have become an event in Krakow’s painting relations. Criticism fell into admiration, master Matejko was pleased to testify that a work so widely received with…
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Jacopo Negretti, The Marriage of the Virgin 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 152
The Marriage of the Virgin is the subject in Christian art depicting the marriage of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. Unlike many other scenes in Life of the Virgin cycles (like the Nativity of Mary and Presentation of Mary), it is not a feast in the church calendar. In art the subject could be covered…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by the Old Masters, With Footnotes – 93
R PAOLETTI (ITALIAN 19TH CENTURY) AFTER ANDREA DEL SARTO Madonna and Child Oil on canvas 110 x 78cm Private Collection 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…
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