This is one of my favorite pieces, though not much is known about it. It’s called, “Entry of Christ into Jerusalem,” and the Wiki entry says it’s from:
Museum for Byzantine Art (Inv. 1590; acquired 1889; from the collection of Sir Andrews), Bode Museum, Berlin.
The description says,
Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (central panel from a triptych), Constantinople, 10th century; ivory
Again, I’m continually amazed at God-given talents. God is a creative God, and, in fact, Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” So God is creative, and because we were made in his image, it’s not surprising that we have inherent creativity within us.
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I haven’t had a “Faith in Art” post in quite awhile, and I think this piece makes up for the long hiatus. This is The Crucifixion by Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), painted in about 1565. The painting is in the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice.
What strikes me about this work is the artist’s depiction of day-to-day life in the midst of one of the most important events in human history. Here’s what Art Archive has to say:
The scene is a vast one, and although Christ is on the Cross, life does not stop. To most of the people gathered there, what takes place is no more than a common execution. Many of them are attending to it as to a tedious duty. Others work away at some menial task more or less connected with the Crucifixion, as unconcerned as cobblers humming over their last [shoe]. Most of the people in the huge canvas are represented, as no doubt they were in life, without much personal feeling about Christ. His own friends are painted with all their grief and despair, but the others are allowed to feel as they please. The painter does not try to give them the proper emotions.
Among this multitude he allowed the light of heaven to shine upon the wicked as well as upon the good, and the air to refresh them all equally.
Here’s a great link to a more detailed description at Patum Paterium.
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This is the Flammarion Woodcut, which probably isn’t actually a woodcut, but rather a wood carving. It depicts,
“…a man, dressed as a medieval pilgrim and carrying a pilgrim’s staff, peering through the sky as if it were a curtain to look at the inner workings of the universe. One of the elements of the cosmic machinery bears a strong resemblance to traditional pictorial representations of the “wheel in the middle of a wheel” described in the visions of the prophet Ezekiel. The caption translates as “A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touched…” The image accompanies a text which reads, in part, “What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?”‘
Flammarion (1842-1925) was a bibliophile and book collector, astronomer and engraver.
The image of a pilgrim encountering a spherical heavenly vault separating the earth from the heavens appeared in Flammarion’s Les mondes imaginaires et les mondes réels (”The Imaginary Worlds and the Real Worlds,” 1865) and was probably created by the author.
I find this image interesting because it speaks to me of our desire to understand the world around us in light of Scripture.
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Look familiar? It’s called “The Prophets Hosea and Jonah.” This is one of my favorite pieces, for a number of reasons, but it’s not a work we know much about. It was painted by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael (also know as Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello da Urbino or Rafael Sanzio da Urbino) around the year 1510. It may have been a sketch to be integrated into works commissioned by Pope Julius II for rooms at his palace at the Vatican.
According to the National Gallery of Art, the work is “pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white and squared for transfer on laid paper.”
The artist was a contemporary of Michelangelo, who painted this work at about the same time.
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This is one of my favorite pieces, though not much is known about it. It’s called, “Entry of Christ into Jerusalem,” and the Wiki entry says it’s from:
