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Classified as a history painting, [4] The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is an oil-on-canvas painting and is about 160 x 128 cm in size. It was Rembrandt's earliest painting, completed when he was 29 years old, and it is the largest known historical work that he completed.
The painting depicts a siren in human form playing a musical instrument "in a thoughtful reverie", [1] surrounded by apples, apple blossoms, and a seagull. [2] The instrument being played has been described as a harp [2] and as "somewhat related to the psaltery"; [3] according to an analysis published in the journal Music in Art, it is an unusually short Japanese koto, a traditional 13 ...
The most dramatic use of the night-time can be seen in the 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David, called The Death of ... The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633, a dark ...
Christ Asleep during the Tempest is an oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, executed c. 1853. [1] The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [2] [3] Delacroix painted at least six versions of the biblical story of Christ sleeping during a storm while on the Sea of Galilee.
The Sea of Galilee is an attraction for Christian pilgrims who visit Israel to see the places where Jesus performed miracles according to the New Testament. Alonzo Ketcham Parker, a 19th-century American traveler, called visiting the Sea of Galilee "a 'fifth gospel' which one read devoutly, his heart overflowing with quiet joy". [50]
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1 ]
Archaic perfume vase in the shape of a siren, c. 540 BC The etymology of the name is contested. Robert S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin. [5] Others connect the name to σειρά (seirá, "rope, cord") and εἴρω (eírō, "to tie, join, fasten"), resulting in the meaning "binder, entangler", [6] [better source needed] i.e. one who binds or entangles through magic song.
The painting depicts Jesus Christ raises a hand toward the apostles, who appear in a boat amid hostile waves at sea. It is an example of mannerism, [1] a European art style that exaggerates proportion and favors compositional tension. This can be seen in the expressive postures of the figures and the muted, yet intense color of the sea and sky.