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James Hampton (April 8, 1909 – November 4, 1964) was an American outsider artist.Hampton worked as a janitor and secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials, known as the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.
God is pictured sitting on his throne at the centre of the panel and portrayed as an ancient figure with a long and broad white beard dressed in red clothing. The Deity holds a book or scroll in his right hand, according to scripture, "written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals ', [ 8 ] while his left hand is raised in a ...
In the background of the painting is the Celestial City, Jerusalem, drawing elements from Martin's earlier historical and architectural paintings, with the Plains of Heaven behind. The light of God pervades the work, with Christ sitting in judgement on the Throne of God in the centre, accompanied by 24 seated elders. Four angels sound trumpets ...
God the Father on a throne, Westphalia, Germany, late 15th century. In the New Testament, the Throne of God (Ancient Greek: ὁ θρόνος τοῦ θεοῦ, romanized: ho thronos tou Theou) is talked about in several forms, [7] including Heaven as the Throne of God, the Throne of David, the Throne of Glory, the Throne of Grace and many more. [7]
The use of religious images in general continued to increase up to the end of the 7th century, to the point that in 695, upon assuming the throne, Byzantine emperor Justinian II put an image of Christ on the obverse side of his gold coins, resulting in a rift which ended the use of Byzantine coin types in the Islamic world. [9]
God's sovereignty over all things is symbolized by the throne, which visions are found both in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament prophetic tradition (cf. 1 Kings 22:19—23) as well as in some Jewish apocalypses, and in this chapter (echoing Isaiah 6 and Ezekiel 1) is seen as "already fully acknowledged in heaven, and therefore as the true reality which must in the end prevail on earth". [6]
Christ in Majesty shown within a mandorla shape in a medieval illuminated manuscript. 13/14th c. seal of Stone Priory in Staffordshire, England, in the shape of a mandorla. A mandorla is an almond-shaped aureola, i.e. a frame that surrounds the totality of an iconographic figure.
As early as 1857 John Ruskin wrote of Blake in The Elements of Drawing that . The Book of Job, engraved by himself, is of the highest rank in certain characters of imagination and expression; in the mode of obtaining certain effects of light it will also prove a very useful example to you. In expressing conditions of glaring and flickering ...