This afternoon I visited The Art Institute of Chicago and I came across this interesting portrait. The Institute encourages people to take pictures of the art so I snapped these two..
Art
The Carpet Merchant
The Carpet Merchant, Jean-Leon Gerome, 1887
An Easter enquiry: ‘How are we made right with God according to Jesus?’
This Easter Christians ponder a story that has been told over and over for the past 2000 years: that the Jewish Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, made a sacrifice of his own life to make mankind right with God (variants of… Read More ›
Inferno
Dante Alighieri In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. artwork by Gustav Dore
La Mort de l’avare – Death and the Usurer
Entitled Death and the Usurer (painted at a time when Christians agreed with Muslims that usury is a sin), this extraordinary Christian composition is by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch around 1500-1510. The work is the right panel of a triptych, now… Read More ›
Fate of socks.
Valentin Gubarev: Fate of socks. (I know the feeling)
Lift up thine eyes
I have just discovered the art of Norman Rockwell an American artist who died in 1978. I like this one (amongst many others)
A Woman by Robert Campin (about 1435)
(Belgian; National Gallery, London) source
Today is the 540th anniversary of the death of Charles the Bold
Today’s is the 540th anniversary of Burgundy’s darkest day, with the death of Charles the Bold on January 5th, 1477. This is the most famous portrait of him, by Rogier van der Weyden, from about 1462, currently in the Gemäldegalerie… Read More ›
Portrait of a Man with an Open Book
by Rogier van der Weyden (ca.1399-1464) 1430s Courtauld Gallery, London
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ‘Children’s Games’
Click to enlarge. There are an estimated 230 children playing 83 different games Children’s Games is an oil-on-panel by Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1560. It is currently held and exhibited at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna…. Read More ›
The Papist Pyramid
As anti-Catholic propaganda goes this is pretty cool. Papist pyramid with entwined snakes; the largest snake at the top wears a papal tiara (a virulent anti-Catholic satire). Copperplate engraving, Dutch, c. 1580. Click image to magnify. © The Trustees of… Read More ›
Master Works of Art Reimagined
Michelangelo, “The Creation of Adam”, 1511-1512, Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling, remake “Hand me a beer”, blokes unknown. for more masterpieces
Blogging Theology 