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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Assumption of the Virgin Mary or Assumption of the Holy Virgin, is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, completed in 1626 as an altarpiece for the high altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to the Synoptic Gospels, Herod, who was tetrarch, or sub-king, of Galilee under the Roman Empire, had imprisoned John the Baptist because he reproved Herod for divorcing his wife (Phasaelis, daughter of King Aretas of...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! During the Renaissance, altarpieces commonly portrayed biblical scenes, such as Madonna and Child, examples of which are in this gallery. These two paintings, Saint Sirus and Saint Paul, were likely part of a larger altarpiece made...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The painting depicts the Virgin Mary while receiving the marriage ring by Saint Joseph, in front of a priest of the Temple of Jerusalem. Michelino painted a Dove of the Holy Ghost above Joseph, to underline...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This tapestry is a fragment of a larger hanging. Since both Saint John the Evangelist and the faltering Virgin look upward, it is probable that this was from the left side of a tapestry of the...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! For the medieval viewer, this Crucifixion instantly recalled wrenching extra-biblical details, like the fact that Christ could not rest his head to the side lest his shoulders be pierced with thorns. The German tract Christi Leiden...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Adoration of the Magi or Uffizi Triptych is a group of three tempera-on-panel paintings by Andrea Mantegna, dating to around 1460. Their three subjects are the Ascension of Christ (86 by 42.5 cm), Adoration...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This is an image of an unknown Saint Mary and an unknown male saint painted by Yumeji Takehisa. Takehisa was a Japanese poet and painter. He is known foremost for his Nihonga illustrations of bijin, beautiful...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to legend, Veronica pitied Jesus as he carried his cross to Calvary and offered him her kerchief, or sudarium, which miraculously retained the imprint of Jesus' face after he wiped his brow. The cloth...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The work represents the marriage of Joseph and the Virgin Mary. The high priest Zaccharie unites their hands, precisely in line with the open door in the temple of Jerusalem represented as an ideal architecture in...
