01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART - Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes - 115

Sebastiano Ricci
Saint Anthony of Padua Healing a Youth, c.1690

Oil on canvas
98 x 124 cm

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Saint Anthony of Padua (Portuguese: Santo António), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries for his forceful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was the second-most-quickly canonized saint after Peter of Verona. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946. He is also the patron saint of lost things. More on Saint Anthony of Padua

Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 1659 – 15 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting. More on Sebastiano Ricci

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05 Mexican Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 & 16th Century. With Footnotes -# 9

SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA

MÆ’XICO, SIGLO XIX

Wood carving with glass eyes. Satin dress. 

Height: 61cm

Private Collection

Saint Anthony of Padua (Portuguese: Santo António), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries for his forceful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was the second-most-quickly canonized saint after Peter of Verona. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946. He is also the patron saint of lost things. More on Saint Anthony of Padua

VIRGIN MARY WITH THE CHILD JESUS

MEXICO, EARLY 19th CENTURY

Wood carving with polychromy, and a metallic sheet halo

Height: 158 cm

Private Collection

The depiction of the Madonna on the crescent is based on the vision of John the Evangelist in chapter 12 of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament (here, the King James version):

1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. More on Madonna on the crescent

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL

MEXICO, EARLY 20th CENTURY

Alabaster, with polychromy

Height: 32 cm

Private Collection

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the "Lady of the place." Our Lady of Mount Carmel was adopted in the 19th century as the patron saint of Chile, in South America.

Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centered on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular, a sacramental associated with promises of Mary's special aid for the salvation of the devoted wearer. Traditionally, Mary is said to have given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Saint Simon Stock. The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated on 16 July. More on Our Lady of Mount Carmel

FRANCISCAN SAINTS

SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA AND SAINT DIDACUS OF ALCALA

MEXICO, 18th, 19th and 20th CENTURIES

Wood carving with polychromy

Height: 22, 25 and 26.5 cm

Private Collection

Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/1182 – 3 October 1226),[1][3] was an Italian Roman Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history.

In 1219, he went to Egypt in an attempt to convert the Sultan to put an end to the conflict of the Crusades. By this point, the Franciscan Order had grown to such an extent that its primitive organizational structure was no longer sufficient. He returned to Italy to organize the Order. In 1224, he received the stigmata, during the apparition of Seraphic angels in a religious ecstasy making him the first recorded person to bear the wounds of Christ's Passion. More

SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA, see above

Didacus of Alcalá, also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served as among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. He died at Alcalá de Henares on 12 November 1463 and is now honored by the Catholic Church as a saint.

Didacus was born c. 1400 into a poor but pious family in the small village of San Nicolás del Puerto in the Kingdom of Seville. As a child, he embraced the hermit life and, later, placed himself under the direction of a hermit priest living not far from his native town. He then led the life of a wandering hermit. Feeling called to the religious life, he applied for admission to the Observant branch of the Order of Friars Minor at the friary in Albaida and was sent to the friary in Arruzafa, near Córdoba, where he was received as a lay brother.

Didacus was sent to the Order in Arrecife on the island of Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands, which was still in the process of introducing the native people to Christianity. In 1445, Didacus was appointed as Guardian of the Franciscan community on the island of Fuerteventura.

In 1450, Diego went to Rome to be share in the Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope Nicholas V, and to be present at the canonization of Bernardine of Siena in 1450. An epidemic broke out in the city. Didacus spent three months caring for the sick. His biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended, through his pious intercession.

He was then recalled again to Spain and was sent by his superiors to the Friary of Santa María de Jesús in Alcalá, where he spent the remaining years of his life in penance, solitude, and the delights of contemplation. There he died on 12 November 1463 due to an abscess. More on Didacus of Alcalá

SAINT ANNE

MEXICO, EARLY 20th CENTURY

Wood carving

Height: 79 cm

Private Collection

Saint Anne (also known as Ann or Anna) of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ, according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels, nor in the Qur'an. Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of which the Protoevangelium of James (written perhaps around 150) seems to be the earliest that mentions them. More on Saint Anne

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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART - Interpretation of the Bible! from the SPANISH GOLDEN AGE, With Footnotes - 87

Juan Carreño De Miranda

Saint Anthony Of Padua With The Christ Child
Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland

Until its recent acquisition for the Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland, this archetypal image of Saint Anthony had been in the collection of the Marquises de Legarda, Spain, for over three centuries. With remarkable painterly fluency Carreño expresses the belief in a personal relationship with Christ through the example of Saint Anthony of Padua, depicted here with the Christ Child at the crowning moment of his spiritual life. In composition and colouring the picture owes as much to the Baroque style of Rubens and other Flemish artists so admired by Carreño as it does to the painterly quality of the Venetians. More on this painting

Saint Anthony of Padua (Portuguese: Santo António), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries for his forceful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was the second-most-quickly canonized saint after Peter of Verona. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946. He is also the patron saint of lost things. More on Saint Anthony of Padua

Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.

Born in Avilés in Asturias. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, where he trained in Madrid during the late 1620s as an apprentice to Pedro de las Cuevas and Bartolomé Román. He came to the notice of Velázquez for his work in the cloister of Doña María de Aragón and in the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, La Joyosa. In 1658 Carreño was hired as an assistant on a royal commission to paint frescoes in the Alcázar of Madrid; later destroyed in a fire in 1734. In 1671. Upon the death of Sebastián de Herrera, he was appointed court painter to the queen and began to paint primarily portraits. He refused to be knighted in the order of Santiago, saying Painting needs no honors. 

Noble by descent, he had an understanding of the workings and psychology of the royal court as no painter before him, making his portraits of the Spanish royal family in an unprecedented documentary fashion. More on Juan Carreño de Miranda

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11 Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 & 16th Century. With Footnote, # 9

MADONNA WITH THE CHRIST CHILD, Italy, c. 1500

Carved in wood, polychrome and gilt

H. 90 cm

Private Collection

Full-figure representation of the Virgin Mary in an S-shape; the Christ Child with a ball, on her left arm.

The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means "My Lady" in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the world including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, South America and the Philippines. Paintings known as icons are also an important tradition of the Orthodox Church and often show the Mary and the Christ Child. They are found particularly in Eastern Europe, Russia, Egypt, the Middle East and India. More Madonna and Child

MOTHER OF GOD WITH THE CHRIST CHILD,  Flanders, 17th century

Carved in stained dark Wood

H. 76 cm.

Private Collection

Full-length and frontal representation of Mother of God, a bouquet of flowers in her right hand and the infant Christ on her left arm. 

ENTHRONED MADONNA WITH CHRIST CHILD,  Spain, 8th century

Carved in wood, polychrome and gilded

H. 88 cm

Private Collection

A massive state monumental representation of the enthroned Madonna. In her right hand she holds a lily on her left knee is the Blessing Christ Child with a globe.

KNEELING ANGEL ALTAR, Southern German, 17th century

Carved in wood

H. 62 cm. 

Private Collection

Above a stylized cloud, a kneeling angel with folded hands, in a richly pleated garment .

ENTHRONED MADONNA WITH CHRIST CHILD,  Flanders, 18- 19 century

Carved in wood, dark stained or painted in color

H. 11 cm

Private Collection

ECCE HOMO, Flanders, 17 and 18 century

Carved in wood, polychrome paint

H. 42.5 cm, W. 28 cm

Private Collection

Christ as a man in pain, sitting on a covered wall. His hands are tied, on his head he wears a crown of thorns.

Ecce homo are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of John 19:5, when he presents a scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. The Douay-Rheims Bible translates the phrase into English as "Behold the man!" [John 19:5] The scene has been widely depicted in Christian art. More Ecce homo

SAINT JOHN Southern German, 18th century

Carved in wood, polychrome paint

H. 75 cm

Private Collection

The disciple John, wearing a richly pleated garment.

The phrase the disciple whom Jesus loved, or the disciple beloved of Jesus is used six times in the Gospel of John, but in no other New Testament accounts of Jesus. The Gospel of John is based on the written testimony of this disciple. More disciple John

Archangel Michael Defeating the Devil, Southern German, 18th century

Carved in wood, polychrome paint

 H. 100 cm.

Private Collection

Archangel Michael in full armor with a sword of fire, with the devil defeated and chained

ARCHANGEL MICHAEL, is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran traditions, he is called "Saint Michael the Archangel" and "Saint Michael". In the Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox traditions, he is called "Taxiarch Archangel Michael" or simply "Archangel Michael".

Michael is mentioned three times in the Book of Daniel, once as a "great prince who stands up for the children of your people". The idea that Michael was the advocate of the Jews became so prevalent that, in spite of the rabbinical prohibition against appealing to angels as intermediaries between God and his people, Michael came to occupy a certain place in the Jewish liturgy.

In the New Testament Michael leads God's armies against Satan's forces in the Book of Revelation, where during the war in heaven he defeats Satan. In the Epistle of Jude Michael is specifically referred to as "the archangel Michael". Christian sanctuaries to Michael appeared in the 4th century, when he was first seen as a healing angel, and then over time as a protector and the leader of the army of God against the forces of evil. By the 6th century, devotions to Archangel Michael were widespread both in the Eastern and Western Churches. Over time, teachings on Michael began to vary among Christian denominations. More Archangel Michael

JOHN THE BAPTIST, Southern German, 18th century

Carved in wood, polychrome and gilded

H. 132.5 cm

Private Collection

John the Baptist in moving attitude, a richly pleated robe and the camel fur robe.

John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610).

The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John was the cousin of Jesus, and his calling was to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. He lived in the wilderness of Judea between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, "his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." He baptised Jesus in the Jordan, and was eventually killed by Herod Antipas when he called upon the king to reform his evil ways. More John the Baptist

SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA BY CHRIST CHILD, Northern Italy, 18th century 

Carved in wood, polychrome

H. 49.5 cm. 

Private Collection

Stylized cloud base with two putti heads. Saint Anthony with slightly bowed head in a monk's robe and holding the Christ Child.

Saint Anthony of Padua (Portuguese: Santo António), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries for his forceful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was the second-most-quickly canonized saint after Peter of Verona. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946. He is also the patron saint of lost things. More

SAINT JAMES, German, 18th century

Carved in wood 

H. 94.5 cm

Private Collection

St. James with a downwardly head, wearing a richly pleated garment.

James, son of Zebedee ( died 44 AD) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and traditionally considered the first apostle to be martyred. He was a son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of John the Apostle. He is also called James the Greater or James the Great to distinguish him from James, son of Alphaeus and James the brother of Jesus (James the Just). James the son of Zebedee is the patron saint of Spaniards, and as such is often identified as Santiago.

The Acts of the Apostles records that "Herod the king" had James executed by sword. He is the only apostle whose martyrdom is recorded in the New Testament. He is, thus, traditionally believed to be the first of the twelve apostles martyred for his faith. More Saint James

Acknowledgement: Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Dusseldorf, and others

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