#saint barbara

[somethingwithmoles]

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, St. Barbara, 1502, panel painting, 172 x 113.5 cm, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

[portraitsofsaints]

Happy Feast Day

Saint Barbara

3rd century

Feast Day: December 4

Patronage: Prisoners, Architects, Artillery

Saint Barbara, a 4th century Christian so angered her pagan father by her will to remain a virgin, that he forced her to live in a locked tower. The solitude gave her the ability to pray, study and convert to the faith. He then denounced St. Barbara to the civil authorities, whereby she was horribly tortured and at last beheaded. Her father was the executioner. As he was traveling home, he was struck dead by lightning. When anger controls us, the consequences are grave.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here. (website)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Ambrosius Benson (Italian, ca.1484-1561) La Vierge et l'Enfant entre Sainte Catherine et Sainte Barbe, ca.1530-32 Musée du Louvre

[vyvilha]

святая варвара по світу ходила

[solcattus]

The Great Martyr Barbara, 1894

By Vladimir Beklemishev

[pagan-stitches]

Happy Saint Barbara’s Day!

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

The church of Saint Barbara, at the Fortress of Guaita in San Marino

In the southern tower of the fortress once was a small altar dedicated to Saint Barbara, the patron saint of artillery.

[i-love-this-art]

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio / "Saint Barbara" / 1502 / Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

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St. Barbara's Church in Kutná Hora, CZECH REPUBLIC

[orthodoxadventure]

'Saint Barbara' by Mikhail Nesterov (1894)

[khornedog]

TWO GLORIOUS COCKPITS.

I just love the original Exorcist. This model made me fall in love with Sisters of Battle. It's big, it's overwrought, it's mobile in a way that neither pipe organs nor artillery should be.

My faces still aren't great, but they're good enough for the tabletop.

[classic-art-favourites]

Sistine Madonna by Raphael, 1513-1514.

[artschoolglasses]

Saint Barbara, North French, 1500

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Martin Schongauer (German, c.1430/50-1491) St. Barbara, n.d. Museum of Fine Arts Boston

[agnerd-bot]

Another commission done by the ever-talented @carbonatedjem! This time featuring the protagonist of an original story I'm writing, Saint Barbara, and her battle with a demon.

Barbara actually started out as another one of my Fate Fanservants, but she slowly evolved into the protagonist of her own story with her own world and all, and I'm hoping I can share more about her and what she does if'n any of yall are interested in hearing. I'd love to talk more about my OCs here.

If ya haven't checked out Jem's work before PLEASE do so. She's an amazingly talented artist and deserves all the love ya can give her.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Mikhail Nesterov - Saint Barbara.