This oil on canvas painting is housed in the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. The painting shows Christ, and a group including a musician, and a man holding palm frond There is a crescent moon & detailed carving on the door that is about to close and shut out the foolish young…
This painting depicting the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins is oil on canvas and is housed in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (Matthew 25,1-13):25 “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their…
The painting is about the message of Daniel 5: drawing into contrast the difference between Nebuchadnezzar (who acknowleges the kingship of the God of Israel) and Belshazzar ( blasphemes against God, and loses his kingdom.) It is oil on canvas, measures Oil on canvas,…
With Le Christ Jaune (The Yellow Christ) Gauguin used a representation of a 17th-century painted crucifix that hung in the Trémalo Chapel. The subject of the painting was actually the peasants kneeling before the crucifix. Gauguin wanted to portray the isolation and piety…
A young girl seated on the ground in the center of the canvas, hands clasped in her lap looking upward. Barely visible, surrounding her head is a semicircle of cherubic angels. A domestic scene, in Mary's lap rests a piece of fabric in which a threaded embroidery needle is…
Traitor (fresco depicting Judas and Jesus at the Last Supper)
1460
Fresco
During the meal Christians traditionally call the last supper, Jesus announces that one of the disciples will betray him. Many other things would have been said and done that evening, but Matthew is only interested in the prediction of betrayal and the bread and wine.…
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