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Jesus visiting Maria by Jorge Afonso (c. 1515), from the main altarpiece of the Madre de Deus church in Lisbon, now in the National Museum of Ancient Art. Jorge Afonso (c. 1470 – 1540) was a noted Portuguese Renaissance painter. Jorge Afonso was nominated royal painter in 1508 by King Manuel I and again in 1529 by John III.
The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin and Saint John; Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Bellini, Berlin) Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Bellini, Venice) The Dead Christ with Angels; Death of the Virgin (van der Goes) Death of the Virgin Mary of Košátky; Deesis with Saint Paul and Saint Catherine; Delivery of the Keys; Diptych by ...
John de Britto, born 1 March 1647 in Lisbon, Portugal, was the scion of a powerful aristocratic Portuguese family; his father, Salvador de Britto Pereira, died while serving as Viceroy of the Portuguese colony of Brazil. He joined the Jesuits in 1662, studying at the famous University of Coimbra.
Crucifixions and crucifixes have appeared in the arts and popular culture from before the era of the pagan Roman Empire.The crucifixion of Jesus has been depicted in a wide range of religious art since the 4th century CE, frequently including the appearance of mournful onlookers such as the Virgin Mary, Pontius Pilate, and angels, as well as antisemitic depictions portraying Jews as ...
Lamentation by Giotto, 1305. The Lamentation of Christ [1] is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. [2] After Jesus was crucified, his body was removed from the cross and his friends mourned over his body.
In 1602, he had been among the nine painters who founded the Brotherhood of St. Luke, a confraternity uniting Lisbon's painters, and in 1612, a delegation of 12 painters, led by Fernão Gomes (pintor) (a Portuguese Mannerist painter of Spanish origin, born in Alburquerque in 1548 and active in Lisbon until his death in 1612), petitioned the ...
Scientists have re-created what they believe Jesus looked like, and he's not the figure we're used to seeing in many religious images. Forensic science reveals how Jesus really looked Skip to main ...
Subjects showing the life of Jesus during his active life as a teacher, before the days of the Passion, were relatively few in medieval art, for a number of reasons. [1] From the Renaissance, and in Protestant art, the number of subjects increased considerably, but cycles in painting became rarer, though they remained common in prints and ...