In 2025, this festival will fall on the 11th of April. It is the day that is observed to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus. In German, this day is called Karfreitag which means the sorrowful Friday. It is an important day when Christians all over the world observe fasts and penance ...
Damnatio ad bestias is definitely one of the most amazing institutions of Roman criminal law. It was an aggravated form of death penalty used in public procedure, mostly against noncitizens and humiliores, from I century a. D. As it seems however, it had already appear...
subjects, such as the Crucifixion, which encouraged personal meditation on events in the life of Jesus Christ. The drawing of the Annunciation may be inspired by a similar spiritual exercise, through which the artist sought to understand the mysteries of the Christian faith....
'Suddenly I had the idea of making scenes of the Passion using skeletons, because I thought that in a way I could put the maximum of dramatic expression into the skeletons. I could not paint more religious scenes with living figures. That would have been stupid. It would have been ...
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO, THE CROWNING OF THORNS, PEN AND BROWN INK, BROWN WASH In this sheet Tiepolo shows the moment that Roman soldiers place the Crown of Thorns on the head of Christ before his crucifixion. It relates to the monumental canvas (450 x 135 cm) forming the left wing of...
It is the Friday before Easter in the Christian calendar. It commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus. 此外,大家最熟悉的应该是《鲁滨逊漂流记》里的仆人星期五了,鲁滨逊用救他的日期为他命名,其实也暗含了宗教和殖民寓意。 下面我们回顾一下星期的英语怎么说?
Types of mystical conception and artistic vision on Crucifixion theme. The study dedicated to mystical experiences before the Christ's drama on Golgotha reunites in the next lines a few significant examples from Roman Catholic Church's doctrinary and artistic fiel. These ...
Damnatio ad gladium ludi was a collective category for all of them, no matter what the actual sentence stated, whether it was crucifixion, burning alive or other death penalties. In that way, it was possible to present in the arena mythological and historical enactments known...
To be hanged from a tree (Deut. 21:22-23) was a death reserved for the accursed of God, but the Roman governor was the only authority that could order crucifixion, a death that could be interpreted, as it later was, as fulfilling the terms of the Deuteronomic curse. Even ...
InterviewThe place is the Roman Empire; the time, the first century A.D. We follow the unusual life story of the novel's ungainly, bookish hero from around Christ's crucifixion to the end of the Jewish war—his journey from Rome to Jerusalem and other parts...