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[artandthebible]

Risen Christ

Artist: Francesco Napoletano (Italian, 1470-1501)

Date: c. 1500

Medium: Oil on wood

Collection: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, United States

Description

As his name indicates, Francesco Napoletano was born in Naples, but he became one of the early followers of Leonardo da Vinci in Milan around 1490. Though this work shows elements derived from Leonardo’s style, especially the shading of Christ’s torso, the lone figure of the risen Christ was likely inspired by Venetian examples. This painting was probably made for a church in Venice, toward the end of Francesco’s life.

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[artemlegere]

Sappho Playing the Lyre

Artist: Léopold Burthe (French, 1823–1860)

Date: 1849

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne, Carcassonne, France

Sappho

Called the Tenth Muse by Plato, Sappho was a prolific poet of ancient Greece. She innovated the form of poetry through her first-person narration (instead of writing from the vantage point of the gods) and by refining the lyric meter. The details of Sappho’s life have been obscured by legend and mythology, and the best source of information is the Suidas, a Greek lexicon compiled in the 10th century.

Sappho was born on Lesbos to a noble family. She lived most of her life in the city of Mytilene, with the exception of her family’s brief exile in Sicily shortly after 600 B.C.E. She married a wealthy man in Mytilene, and they had a daughter names Cleis. Sappho also headed a thiasos, or an academy of unmarried women. As was the custom at the time, wealthy families sent their daughters to live at these schools where they were taught proper social graces, composition, singing, and poetry recitation. Much of Sappho’s poetry was composed in this community, and she used many of her students as subjects.

Perhaps Sappho’s most famous work is her “Ode to Aphrodite”:

Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind, child of Zeus, who twists lures, I beg you do not break with hard pains, O lady, my heart

but come here if ever before you caught my voice far off and listening left your father’s golden house and came,

yoking your car. And fine birds brought you, quick sparrows over the black earth whipping their wings down the sky through midair -

they arrive. But you, O blessed one, smiled in your deathless face and asked what (now again) I have suffered and why (now again) I am calling out

and what I want to happen most of all in my crazy heart. Whom should I persuade (now again) to lead you back into her love? Who, O Sappho, is wronging you?

For if she flees, soon she will pursue. If she refuses gifts, rather will she give them. If she does not love, soon she will love even unwilling.

Come to me now: loose me from hard care and all my heart longs to accomplish, accomplish. You be my ally.

(Carson, If Not, Winter, 2–5)

[illustratus]

Wanderer on a Mountain Top (Landscape in Moonlight)

by Johan Christian Dahl

[inspirehorizon]

A gentle crest in heaven's vest

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[rosalie-art]

Quiet pencil and digital

[andreadarcyart]

#huevember day 6: pink

The study for today should have been purple, not pink but I'm afraid I mucked it up 😅 I think I was just really excited to paint the colour pink again 🤣💖

[jonreytrevino]

Top of the World

pixel_dailies : mountain top : 1/2/25

BlueSky | Ko-fi | Upwork

[steven-sandner]

Altocumulus lenticularis duplicatus cloud over Mt Cook, New Zealand from the Hooker Valley (my pic) 🍂💫✨

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Falthringor [44×68] by Borough Bound

[artandthebible]

The Temptation of Christ

Artist: Ary Scheffer (Dutch, 1795–1858)

Date: 1854

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

The Temptation of Christ

As recorded in the Gospel of Luke 4:5-8 “Then the devil took Jesus and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant. The devil said to Jesus, ‘I will give you all these kingdoms and all their power and glory. It has all been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish. If you worship me, then it will all be yours.’ Jesus answered, "It is written in the Scriptures: 'You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.' "

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(via Whatelse | Flex   || Curated with love by yogadaily)

[allanodyne]

pullin me back into my body

by AllanOdyne

[illustratus]

The Wolf Moon sets over the Castle of Rocca Calascio, Italy, 2023.

The first full moon of the year (on January) is often called the Wolf Moon, a name which may date back to when wolves would howl outside villages.

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