#Religious Art

[thegoeticcleric]

Oh, I love this!

A short comic based on a passage in Acts of John, an apocryphal christian writing from the second century CE. I really enjoy the way it's written as a first person account of the travels of Saint John, it's very lovely:

113 O thou who hast kept me until this hour for thyself and untouched by union with a woman: who when in my youth I desired to marry didst appear unto me and say to me: John I have need of thee: who didst prepare for me also a sickness of the body: who when for the third time I would marry didst forthwith prevent me, and then at the third hour of the day saidst unto me on the sea: John, if thou hadst not been mine, I would have suffered thee to marry: who for two years didst blind me, and grant me to mourn and entreat thee: who in the third year didst open the eyes of my mind and also grant me my visible eyes: who when I saw clearly didst ordain that it should be grievous to me to look upon a woman[...] who didst make my love of thee spotless: who didst make my joining unto thee perfect and unbroken: who didst give me undoubting faith in thee, who didst order and make clear my inclination toward thee[...]

[illustratus]

Allegory of Vanity by Jacopo Ligozzi

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: St. Cecilia Artist: unknown Italian artist Date: first half of 17th century Genre: religious art Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 80.5 cm (31.6 in) high x 66.5 cm (26.1 in) wide Location: Łazienki Palace, Warsaw, Poland

[obsession-of-aesthetic]

"David and Saul" by Julius Kronberg (1885)

[oncanvas]

Saint Casilda, Francisco de Zurbarán, circa 1630-35

Oil on canvas 171 x 107 cm (67.32 x 42.13 in.) Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

[love-promethea]

and when the guilt consumes you, what will you hold onto

[seraphim-eternal]

The word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory.

John 1:14

[comikbook]

The Eyes of God, 2023, Digital Painting by myself, Liz Pence

[victusinveritas]

X-ray of a statue of the Virgin Mary.

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Saint Catherine (detail), After Bernardino Luini, 1510 .

[ultraviolencesaints]

[bebs-art-gallery]

Art by Sara Fasolin

[illustratus]

Orpheus and Eurydice by Edward John Poynter

[the-evil-clergyman]

Judith by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1892)

[weirdlookindog]

John Martin (1789-1854) - Fallen Angels in Hell, c. 1841

[awanqi]

Marian pieces. "Coronation"; "Stella Maris"

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