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The painting is in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (Inventory Zh-4204). Measuring 325 × 611 cm, [1] it depicts the story of Christ and the woman taken in adultery, described in the Gospel of John. [2] [3] The painting was conceived by the artist in the late 1860s, with the first sketches appearing in the early 1870s.
Plastov chose a subject where nudity seems natural to the viewer: a young woman in the open anteroom of a village bathhouse dressing a little girl. [1] [2] The artist combines the naked body of a young woman with "pink — nacre tones" and russet hair with the gray wooden walls, the soot-blackened door of the bathhouse, and the warm golden straw on the floor of the anteroom.
Christ in the Desert or Christ in the Wilderness [2] [3] (Russian: Христос в пустыне, romanized: Khristos v pustyne) is an 1872 painting by Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi, reflecting the temptation of Christ. Kramskoi was offered a professorship for the painting by the Russian Academy of Arts Council but rejected it in the ...
Christ and Sinner is a large-format painting by the Polish and Russian painter-academist Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902). It was completed in 1873 and is currently held in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (Inventory Zh-5674).
The painting is housed in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (inventory number Zh-5263). It measures 242 × 321 cm. [1] [2] [3] The canvas depicts Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ in a life-size two-figure composition. The painting depicts the moment in the Gospel story when Mary Magdalene recognises the risen Christ. However, he stops ...
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Male Saints; The Man of Sorrows (Ensor) Manichaean Painting of the Buddha Jesus; Manichaean temple banner MIK III 6286; The Marriage Feast at Cana (Bosch) The Merciful Knight; The Miraculous Draft of Fishes (Witz) Modena Triptych; Mogao Christian painting; Murals from the Christian temple at Qocho
Holy Trinity, Hospitality of Abraham; by Andrei Rublev; c. 1411; tempera on panel; 1.1 x 1.4 m (4 ft 8 in x 3 ft 8 3 ⁄ 4 in); Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow). Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in AD 988. [1]
The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century. The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus , celebrated at Christmas , are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke , and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition.