GOTHIC SCULPTOR, German
The King of the World and the Foolish Virgins
1280-1300
Stone
Cathedral, Strasbourg
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GOTHIC SCULPTOR, German
The King of the World and the Foolish Virgins
1280-1300
Stone
Cathedral, Strasbourg
"One must also in the name of truth be bold enough to affirm that the Cause of all things, through the beauty, goodness and profusion of His intense love for everything, goes out of Himself in His providential care for the whole of creation. By means of the supra-essential power of ecstasy, and spell-bound as it were by goodness, love and longing, He relinquishes His utter transcendence in order to dwell in all things while yet remaining within Himself." - St Maximus the Confessor
Americque By Jan Van Kessel “The Elder” (1626-1679), Dutch Brazil.
"It contains two Brazilian figures based on the paintings of Brazilian ‘Tapuya’ Indians made by the Dutch painter Albert Eckhout in 1641-43, a third Ameridian figure in the foreground, wearing a headdress and a skirt of red feathers, and various fauna and flora taken from Piso and Markgraf’s Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae, Yet the scene is not fully American either; it includes a set of Javanese gamelan gongs, Japanese armor and arms, and shells wich are either Indo-Pacific or pantropical.” - Peter Mason
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825)
The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
1818
Luca Giordano (1634 - 1705)
Allegory of Magnanimity
1670
Liber antiphonarium de toto anni circulo a festivitate sancti Aciscli usque in finem - details