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Jesus healing the servant of a Centurion, by the Venetian artist Paolo Veronese, 16th century. Healing the centurion's servant is one of the miracles performed by Jesus of Nazareth as related in the Gospel of Matthew [1] and the Gospel of Luke [2] (both part of the Christian biblical canon). The story is not recounted in the Gospels of either ...
Art historian Mary Garrard believes that Judith Slaying Holofernes portrays Judith as a "socially liberated woman who punishes masculine wrongdoing". [13] Although the painting depicts a scene from the Bible, art historians have suggested that Gentileschi drew herself as Judith and her mentor Agostino Tassi , who was tried for and convicted of ...
Luca Giordano, c. 1653. National Gallery of Victoria.. One of the earliest paintings of Sebastian being nursed is by Josse Lieferinxe in about 1497, part of a cycle from an altarpiece in Marseilles (now Philadelphia Museum of Art), [6] but the subject was rare until the 17th century, and treated as part of a series of Sebastian's life.
Modern paintings of the scene often cast Judith nude, as was signalled already by Klimt. Franz von Stuck 's 1926 Judith has "the deliverer of her people" standing naked and holding a sword besides the couch on which Holofernes, half-covered by blue sheets [ 15 ] —where the text portrays her as god-fearing and chaste, "Franz von Stuck's Judith ...
Christ and the Woman from Canaan by Pieter Lastman, 1617, Rijksmuseum. Charles Ellicott contrasts this miracle with the miraculous healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 8:10. According to Ellicott, whilst both miracles showed Jesus's willingness to help gentiles, Jesus had a more favorable view of the centurion.
In the previous verse, a Centurion had asked Jesus to come and heal his paralyzed servant. Modern translations offer two different versions of this verse. Some, like the ESV, translate it as a declaration that Jesus will go and heal the servant. Others, like the NIV, have Jesus questioning whether he should come and help.
The miraculous healing of a centurion's servant is reported in Matthew 8:5–13 and Luke 7:1–10. These two Gospels narrate how Jesus healed the servant of a centurion in Capernaum. John 4:46–54 has a similar account at Capernaum but states that it was the son of a royal official who was healed. In both cases the healing took place at a ...
Shōen was known primarily for her bijin-ga, or paintings of beautiful women, in the nihonga style, although she produced numerous works on historical themes and traditional subjects. Shōen is considered a major innovator in the bijin-ga genre despite the fact she often still used it to depict the traditional beauty standards of women.