Title: Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Artist: Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, b. 1632, d. 1675 Delft) Date: c. 1670–72 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 45 x 35 in. (114.3 x 88.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 Accession Number: 32.100.18 Vermeer had 10 children. From the curator This picture, made at a moment when public celebrations of the Mass were forbidden in the Dutch Republic, draws on the complex language of allegory to depict the triumph of the Catholic Church. A woman, representing the church itself, places one foot atop a globe, while in the foreground the cornerstone of the church crushes the serpent of evil. Vermeer converted to Catholicism before his marriage, and this painting, which includes a table laden with chalice, missal, and crucifix, may also refer to the celebration of the Mass in "hidden churches" within private homes. The Crucifixion scene in the background is based on a painting in Vermeer’s collection by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens.
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Blessed Anna Taigi confirmed to General Michaud, Catholic aide-de-camp of the Tsar, that Tsar Alexander I became a Catholic on his deathbed. “...The Emperor died a Catholic, and is in Purgatory. He is saved for his charity to his neighbor, and for protecting the Pope and the Church.” This is disputed by encyclopedia.com, but if a Catholic blessed says it happened, it happened. https://catholicism.org/russias-catholic-tsar.html A second source repeats the claim https://kolbecenter.org/kolbe-report-3-11-23/ The name of Claude Ignace François Michaud (Oct. 28, 1751- Oct. 19, 1835) is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe.
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At age 18 Jesus permitted Joseph to die. Some say Joseph couldn't bear what was to come.
The painting is thought to be by F. S. Shuman, an artist from Alexandria, VA, and hangs in the Basilica of St. Mary, founded in 1795 and located in Alexandria. It was the first Catholic parish in the Commonwealth of Virginia and West Virginia, one state territory until 1863. President George Washington, father of the country, made the first contribution, equivalent to $1,200 today, for the creation of a Catholic parish.
This painting is magnificent for the way Jesus looks at Joseph. The practice of veiling changed my view. You only know only because I say so. My soul is invisible, revealed some in the blog, but, as Aquinas said about his eight million words, they are straw...to be looked at and burned. In this painting nothing is veiled, except its reality. Nicola Verlato, A Whiter Shade of Pale, 2012-13
From the curator Verlato’s work is video-game-meets-high-Baroque; he uses 3D animation technology to assist in the drawing preparation of his fantastical scenes that he paints in oils. Here we have the transformation of Michael Jackson. The little boy is trampled underfoot while three Michaels of varying ages struggle to reach for the pinnacle of Death. The forest animals look on in both amazement and disinterest. The gnarly twisting tree and swirl of bodies remind us of Bernini’s statues of Persephone or Apollo and Daphne, while the orange glow in the background suggests other worldly forces. What I see It's no accident that there is a double halo around the skull. It suggests two deaths: that of the soul and that of the body. https://narrativepainting.net/nicola-verlato-a-whiter-shade-of-pale-2012-13/ Brer is brother. Miss O'Connor referred to this cartoon.
Headline White House Prohibits Children from Submitting ‘Overtly Religious’ Art for Easter Egg Roll “Under its restrictions list, the flyer noted, ‘The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.’”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/30/hoppin-mad-white-house-blasted-for-prohibiting-children-from-submitting-religious-easter-eggs-for-contest/ The roll was on Saturday 3/30/2024. Artist: Noël Coypel (1628–1707) Title: Resurrection of Christ Object type: painting Genre: religious art Date: c. 1700 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: height 11.4 feet, width 8.4 feet (approx.) Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes Accession number: 801.5.1 If you think I am your typical modern Catholic, you couldn’t be farther from the truth. I...
And if given one good word, I can write two paragraphs in five minutes.
P.S. I can't remember much beyond last week, but good memories and friendships never fade. Typical man. If I get to Heaven, I sure as hell want Him to kiss my soul, then put His arm around me when I get my body back. Never had doubts about the faith: it's as true as outer space is black. Conventional oddballs may step to the front of the line. Sometime I will write about the labyrinthine lay hierarchies inside traditional Catholic circles. Title: The Vale of Tears (Tap on title for larger view and details.) Artist: Gustave Doré, b. Strasbourg 1832, d. Paris 1883 Paradise Lost
Doré did illustrations for Dante's The Inferno, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", and Poe's "The Raven". Coleridge and Poe are in the Reading List. https://www.artpassions.net/dore/dore.html Auron presents many images: landscapes, sculptures, photos, and more. He is a writer. I own one, original landscape. The place is about three hours east.
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns Orchestra leader: first row, first chair violins (concertmaster) Orchestra: La Camerata y la Orquesta Piccolo de la Escuela de las Artes Teatro del Lago, Chile Artists: Punkrobot Studio Piano: foursome Tennyson wrote the poem in 1830.
Saint-Saëns composed "The Dying Swan" in 1886. Fokine choreographed a solo ballet in 1905. A pro-Palestine activist completely destroyed Philip Alexius de László's 1914 unprotected portrait of Lord Balfour at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, March 8, 2024. Lord Balfour played a key role in the creation of Israel. Palestine Action admitted responsibility. The painting is irreplaceable; this is grand larceny. No one tackled her. The artist was of Jewish origin, and his painting of Pope Leo XIII earned him a Grand Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1900, the same year he married Lucy Madeleine Guinness.
Artist: Vincenzo Camuccini (1771–1844)
Title: La morte di Cesare Object type: painting Genre: history painting Date: between 1804 and 1805 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions height: 112 cm (44 in); width: 195 cm (76.7 in) Collection: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Accession number: OA 6582 (National Museum of Capodimonte) Place of creation: Italy Source/Photographer: own work, user:Rlbberlin Today: the Ides of March The Waterfront with Discopters
The future look of San Francisco as imagined in 1975 by Alexander Weygers in 1950. The artist had received a patent for his "discopter," and pictured the city with wharf-side and rooftop landing spaces for his futuristic vehicles. www.arthurchandler.com/ Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1850–1913)
Title: The Trial of Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc series: VI) Date: c. late 1909-early 1910 Medium: oil and gold leaf on canvas Dimensions: 75.57 × 171.45 cm (29 3/4 × 67 1/2 in.) Collection: National Gallery of Art Accession number: 2015.19.39 Credit line: Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection) Source/Photographer: https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/195567 Wikipedia “Soon after the siege of Orléans was lifted, Jean Gerson said that Joan’s male clothes and haircut were appropriate for her calling, as she was a warrior, and men’s clothes were more practical. “Cross-dressing may have helped her maintain her virginity by deterring rape and signaling her unavailability as a sexual object; scholars have stated that when she was imprisoned, wearing men’s clothes would have only been a minor deterrent to rape as she was shackled most of the time. “For most of her active life, Joan did not cross-dress to hide her gender. Rather, it may have functioned to emphasize her unique identity as La Pucelle [virgin or maiden], a model of virtue that transcends gender roles and inspires people.” The angels are genderless, not people. Joan said that God and the angels commanded her to wear men’s clothes. A lying saint? Don’t think so. Male and female saints are not historical footnotes. They are alive. Who do you think populates Heaven? Your pet cat? Our Lord did not come down, your cat to rescue. Saint Augustine
by Philippe de Champaigne Of Flanders, active in France Date: c. 1645 Size: 78.74 × 62.23 cm Medium: Oil on canvas Credit: Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art More: http://collections.lacma.org/node/171584 Augustine is the one who said, "To sing is to pray twice." Do you know from whence this comes? Latin Mass...before the Cannon of the Mass This rhetoric is why the leftist appointees in the FBI investigated us, and why the SPLC put us on their hate group list, and why leftists across the world (UN, WEC, EC, WHO, etcetera) fear us. When galvanized we are a formidable force. We will have the US military on our side despite the current leadership's efforts to feminize the armed forces. If we had a Joan of Arc, I would have no problem with that. Joan of Arc in Battle
Central Part of The Life of Joan of Arc Triptych Artist: Hermann Stilke (1803–1860) Object type: painting Genre: religious art Description: Central Part of The Life of Joan of Arc Triptych Depicted people: Joan of Arc Date: 1843 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 135 × 146 cm (53.1 × 57.4 in) Collection: Hermitage Museum Current location: The General Staff Building Room 350 Accession number: ГЭ-5005 Place of creation: Germany Object history: Winter Palace, 1925 People are searching the internet for the term, surreal. Featured image: Yves Tanguy - Mama, Papa is Wounded, 1927. Captions, via Creative Commons “The name of this surreal painting is like children’s cry and resembles broken family relations as well as strong sexual connotation of wounded masculinity of the Father, but the real meaning of the abstract and archetypal symbols has been never revealed by the artist and stayed enigmatic.” https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/surrealist-paintings/yves-tanguy-1 I scanned the Frenchman's life. Not much of interest except that he had a terrible marriage to an American woman, and maybe that relates to wounded masculinity, a prominent feature in our world today. What is the answer for men? Take on Christ's masculinity, no one else's, and that takes a lifetime. Dali - Corpus Hypercubus, polyhedron net of a tesseract
Artist Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674)
Title The Dream of Saint Joseph Object type painting Genre religious art Date between 1642 and 1643 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions height 82.4 in, width: 61.3 in Collection National Gallery Accession number NG6276 (National Gallery) References
The Dead Christ supported by Two Angels
Artist: Carlo Crivelli 1430-1495 Period: Italian Renaissance Style: conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility Owner: The National Gallery, London Download: free under terms Not Vatican and not one royal family know how to govern like kings. The whole lot of them are spoiled leadership fails and completely irrelevant, unable to inspire loyalty because they have none. When you are in trouble, you close ranks and cut off those who are hurting the family. There is no other choice. There is no common man. He wants to be caught up in a glorious cause. That’s the whole point of school. Cut the pope out for treason! The Fall of the Rebel Angels
1562 Pieter Bruegel the Elder Concerto in C for Seven Trumpets 1770 Johann Ernst Altenburg, taught by his father to trumpet Did He wear a loin cloth on the cross? The answer is complex. As is typical for me, I scanned a very long explanation. It comes from Catholic Answers, and the question is looked at from an artistic point of view. I excerpted what seemed to be most relevant. I numbered the direct quotes, which appeared sequentially in the research, to make them easier to read. Very slight editing was done to fix spelling.
The author is Herbert Thurston. “Catholic Answers is pleased to provide this unabridged entry from the original Catholic Encyclopedia, published between 1907 and 1912. It is a valuable resource for subjects related to theology, philosophy, history, culture, and more. Like most works that are more than a century old, though, it may occasionally use anachronistic language or present outdated scientific information. Accordingly, in offering this resource Catholic Answers does not thereby endorse every assertion or phrase in it.” https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/cross-and-crucifix-the Getty image
news.artnet.com/art-world/michelangelo-sculpture-returned-to-florence-basilica-916139 “Michelangelo sculpted the piece at 18, when he was living with the Augustine monks at Santo Spirito following the death of his first patron, Lorenzo de Medici. The monks let him do anatomical studies of the corpses from the church’s attached hospital. As a thank you, Michelangelo carved this crucifix for their high altar around 1492.” … “Specialists and art historians are still in disagreement as to its authenticity.” Latin root of the verb infinitive to humiliate: humiliare, to make low or humble Latin root of the verb infinitive to humble: humiliare, to make low or humble Conventional wisdom and the dictionary agree that “humiliate” and “humble” are different, but that is not so for a Catholic. I used to think that the Resurrection was the greatest event in history. Now I think the Incarnation was. He who made me, joined me, and had all the emotions I have, not some, all. At the Crucifixion, out of the thousands of people who acclaimed Him, three people stood and watched Him die. What mother would not do that for her son? So, really, there were only two, John and Mary Magdalen. If you tell me that Christ did not feel humiliated and humbled, in short, inadequate, I’d say you were wrong. His Incarnation humiliates and humbles me. Why any person is not overwhelmed by desire for the humiliated and humbled One, I cannot answer. Why’s only get a person closer to death. Aphrodite of Menophantos
Venus pudica is the best-known copy type of the Venus of Cnidus and bears the signature of the sculptor Menophantos: “work by Menophantos, after the Aphrodite in the Troad”. The marble sculpture is Greek art from the 1st century BC, found at a Catholic monastery and now at the National Roman Museum. Look at her, goddess of the humiliated and humbled. Time spent at Mass or with Alexander (10) or Josh (32) stirs the cauldron of emotions. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Be careful about blaming the devil for anything: faults are internal. Yes, I pray the St. Michael prayer at every Mass, but I give it no further thought, and you will find few words on the devil in the blog, nor will you find much on prophecy or predictions. If you need an exorcism, go to a Catholic priest. That’s all I have to say. The lines are known by almost everyone, but few recognize Shakespeare’s recusancy in Julius Caesar. Good writers disguise their thoughts. Marcus Junius Brutus, born c. 85 BC, died 42 BC, COD suicide, murdered Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC. (Oremus Let us pray, related word oration)
Mark Antony's Oration over the Body of Caesar George Edward Robertson (1864–1926) Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service Date: c. 1894–1895 Medium: oil on canvas Measurements: H 134 x W 193 cm Accession number: HAPMG: 1920.55 Acquisition method: gift, 1920 Mark holds Caesar’s will, and the only man who looks at the body and is truly horrified is the hooded monk standing behind Mark and hiding from the crowd. The monk holds himself up with a hand on Mark’s right arm and stands at his right hand. Who is at God’s right hand? “St. Philip Neri, the most laughable and laughed at saint in Saintdom...
“Neri often visited the Catacombs to pray and meditate, and it was there in the month of May or June 1544 that he was mysteriously thrown to the floor and a ball of fire ‘entered his mouth and lodged in his chest.’ “Soon recovering from the shock, he put his hand to his left side and found a swelling as large as his fist. St. Philip Neri was a mystic even before this, but at this time in his life his mystical experiences reached a climax and left the visible mark he carried to his grave. “... a heart so inflamed with the love of God that it forced two ribs into an arch over his heart to give the appearance of a tumor. “Doctors learned this only at an autopsy on the day of his death. ‘...[T]here has never been more than one case of a heart so inflamed with the love of God as to break the ribs of the encasing body.’” By Philip C. Fenton, S.J., excerpted from an article published in the May 1958 issue of Extension magazine |
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