2. Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci, with 53 handpicked famous oil paintings likeBaptism of Christand theMona Lisa. 3. Gustave Klimt is a late 1800’s early 1900’s Austrian symbolist painter with about 162art for saleon Toperfect. Part of his masterpieces is the incredibleSymbol...
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Jesus is portrayed being held closely by Mary, while he sits on her lap straining to grasp the patron's rosary. The picture thus poses an intriguing riddle - how can a concrete item taken from the tangible world of the believer bridge the divide with the spiritual world in such a manner...
MB remembers that some of the characters have just emerged from the Jordan River following their baptism by John The Baptist, and four of the future apostles appear on the left side of the photo (in beards & one with red hair). MB will post a follow-up post on the Tretyakov Gallery ...
Another simultaneous representation—the bathing of the Child by two midwives in the foreground—became standard in Eastern Nativities. It probably derives from Classical scenes of the birth of the god Dionysus and is a prefiguration of Christ’s baptism. As the emblem of a major feast day, ...
According to the Christian concept of original sin, Adam’s guilt was transmitted to all of humanity; only the death and resurrection of Jesus could erase the stain of Adam’s disobedience.Creation and expulsion from the Garden of Eden Fall of ManThe Rebuke of Adam and Eve, oil on copper ...