a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

Ecce Ancilla Domini
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 1850    Painting

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This is Rossetti's painting of the Annunciation; the moment where the Angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin bringing news of her divine pregnancy. The Latin title quotes the Gospel of St Luke, translated as "Behold the handmaiden of the Lord." 

Rossetti creates a symbolic consistency by continuing the depiction of the Virgin Mary alongside lilies which were often used as a symbol of purity in Italian Renaissance and Medieval art. Here, indeed, Gabriel presents Mary with the lily as a symbol of her eternal virginity and purity. Both Mary and Gabriel are swathed in virginal white robes with golden haloes, and backed with the rich royal, heavenly blue typically associated with Mary. A rich red panel stands in her bedroom, also with a decorative lily motif.

This Oil on canvas is in the  Collection of the Tate, United Kingdom 

Ecce Homo
Artist: Antonio Ciseri
 1871    Painting

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Ecce Homo are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of John, when he presents a scourged Jesus, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before His crucifixion (John 19:5).

The painting Ecce Homo  is by Italian painter Ciseri. It is an example of the style known as Italian Purism. The Purismo movement  rejected Neoclassicism and focused on artists like Raphael.  Ciseri’s paintings have an almost cinematic, photo-like realism.