The Virgin Mary has been interrupted in her prayers and has risen to receive the visitation of the Archangel Gabriel who offers her a sheaf of lilies. The two unidentified men in contemporary dress kneel in the right foreground. The room is richly adorned and replete with…
This fresco depicts the triumph of St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits, shown left of center in his grey cassock extending toward Christ, who holds a cross in the middle. All the light in the fresco comes from Christ, emphasized both by the golden swirling center and the…
This painting depicts the Christian tradition of the Ascension of Christ which concludes Jesus’ work on Earth with his entry into the celestial sphere after His Crucifixion and Resurrection The original size: 16.5” x 24” inchesThis work is linked to Luke 24:51 - 51 And it…
Among the religious paintings Titian produced between 1516 and 1538 this is one of his most revolutionary masterpieces, the Assumption (1516–18). This large and at the same time monumental composition occupies the high altar of Santa Maria dei Frari in Venice, a position…
Like his master Pieter Lastman, Rembrandt painted angels and visions. One of Rembrandt's earliest paintings shows an angel interfering in human life, and it is derived from a similar work by Lastman. The biblical story (Num. 22:1-35) represented here is the following. The…
This stone sculpture known as the Bamberg Rider depicts a crowned but unarmed man, seated on a horse, turning to look at the viewer. A convincing naturalism, portraying the subject with realistic proportions and details, pervades the life-sized work, as the horse holds its…
The Bible, its themes, events and characters, are the subject of many of mankind's finest works of art.
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