Armin BergmeierVolatile Images: The Empty Throne and itsPlace in the Byzantine Last JudgmentIconographyEschatological concepts entered the realm of the visual arts of Byzantium and the me-dieval West surprisingly late. It is not until the middle Byzantine period that we en-counter images that ...
The minute I stepped onto the beautiful porch, I couldn't help but think of her. My sister and I sat down in the rocking chairs and shared memories of mom at the hotel. We had been going there since I was 17. After my sister got us a couple of drinks and walked back toward wher...
All of these are plainly obvious in the drawings he produced. Kent’s style, wedged between the hard-edged Art Deco glamour of the 1920s and the flowing dynamism of 1930s American Scene art, glorifies both thePequod’s sailors and the albino sperm whale they hunt. All are in sharp relie...
The gravesite was just as the women said, but our friends did not see the angels – or Jesus.” (25) Suddenly, the the Truth struck them both like a bolt of lightening: “How foolish have we been?!?! So stupid to not see that this is what was in all the scriptures we were ...
My belonging to these two worlds both legitimizes the quest for place and generates a proliferation of doubles: shadows, voices, witnesses, angels, those who keep vigil. . . This quest for place is born of a profound feeling of exile. Isn’t any creative person “exiled,” a nomad, an ...
The painting shows Mary accomplishing just that. She is undoing a knot with the help of angels. Schmidtner creates an image where one is transported to Heaven and is witnessing how Mary helps those souls still on Earth. It is magnificent. 3. The Annunciation More than any other painting...
God will sacrifice to save all Fallin Angels and souls.. its 15 years left.. when revealation of Lamb of God happened. This will be the end is near.. I know the lamb has been sent now in the earth.. i receive a dream that end is near 2 times happen to me that was 2003 when...
141. I never believed in angels unless and until God gifted me with a beautiful sister like you. You will forever be special to me. Good Morning! 😘 142. You are indeed a blessing to me and to everyone who knows about you. Wishing you a good morning. Get up my lovely sister and...
Last week we heard the story of the Magi who came to see the tiny child that the skies had announced with a shining star and voices of angels and this week we find ourselves peering up at the sky once again, this time, with Jesus. Not baby Jesus, but a grown man who has come wit...