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In the poem, Lazarus contrasts that ancient symbol of grandeur and empire ("the brazen giant of Greek fame") with a "New" Colossus – the Statue of Liberty, a female embodiment of commanding "maternal strength" ("Mother of Exiles"). [13] [14] The "sea-washed, sunset gates" are the mouths of the Hudson and East Rivers, to the west of Brooklyn ...
New Testament scholars have sought to explain how the story of Lazarus was probably composed. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) (11:2) [6] Verse 2, which many translations put between parentheses, [7] is at the centre of much scholarly controversy. [8]
The Raising of Lazarus is a large altarpiece of 1517–1519 by the Italian High Renaissance artist Sebastiano del Piombo, for which Michelangelo supplied drawings for some figures. Intended for Narbonne Cathedral in France, it is now normally in Room 18 of the National Gallery in London, where it is "NG1", the first painting catalogued at the ...
The chapel at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, is also dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace. [6] St. Mary, Queen of Peace Basilica is the pro-cathedral of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum in Kerala, India. Queen of Peace Cemetery of the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre in Old Westbury, New York opened in ...
The Raising of Lazarus is a 1461 three-panel oil on oak panel altarpiece by the French painter Nicolas Froment, now inventory number 1065 in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which restored it in 2017. The central panel shows the resurrection itself, with one side panel showing Christ welcomed by Lazarus' sisters Mary and Martha and the other ...
Lazarus's poem contrasted the classical Colossus of Rhodes as a frightening symbol, with the new "American colossus" as a "beacon to the lost and hopeless". [99] Liberty Enlightening the World, or The Statue of Liberty, a stained glass window commissioned by Joseph Pulitzer to commemorate fundraising for the
An enamel plaque on the processional Cross of Mathilde, showing an image of the donor together with Mary, Seat of Wisdom. This type of Madonna image is based on the Byzantine prototype of the Chora tou Achoretou ("Container of the Uncontainable"), [5] an epithet mentioned in the Acathist Hymn and present in the Greek East by the early 11th century, when the Byzantine-inspired enamels were made ...
Raphael, Christ's Charge to Peter, 1515.. The Restoration of Peter (also known as the Re-commissioning of Peter) [1] is an incident described in John 21 of the New Testament in which Jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection and spoke to Peter in particular.