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José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, (Temascalcingo, 6 July 1840 – Estado de México, 26 August 1912) was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings. He was both one of the ...
Matthias Grünewald, inner right wing of the Isenheim Altarpiece depicting the Temptation of St. Anthony, 1512-1516 (oil on panel). The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature, concerning the supernatural temptation reportedly faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert.
José Maria Veloso Salgado (2 April 1864 – 22 July 1945) was a Spanish-born Portuguese painter. He is regarded as one of the country's foremost masters of Naturalism with many distinguished works in historical painting , landscapes , and portraits .
The choir was built between 1759 and 1763. It was originally painted by Pocasangre, but little remains due to subsequent re-paintings and the enclosure of the space when the "Casa de Ejercicios" or meditation room was added. Most of the paintings in this space date from 1867. The area contains a wood organ used to accompany services. [29]
The symbolist painters used mythological and dream imagery. The symbols used by symbolism are not the familiar emblems of mainstream iconography but intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references. More a philosophy than an actual style of art, symbolism in painting influenced the contemporary Art Nouveau style and Les Nabis. [14]
Approximately one year before her death, she recounted her life to Zosimas of Palestine, [6] who encountered her in the desert. When he unexpectedly met her in the desert, she was completely naked and almost unrecognizable as human. She asked Zosimas to toss her his mantle to cover herself with, and then she narrated her life's story to him.
Magdalen in the Desert, also known as The Reading Magdalen, and The Magdalen Reading in a Cave, was an oil painting of uncertain date traditionally but disputedly attributed to Antonio da Correggio. The painting was last in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, but went missing after the Second World War. [1]
In Santa Maria de Guadalupe he painted multiple large pictures, eight of which relate to the history of St. Jerome; [3] and in the church of Saint Paul, Seville, a figure of the Crucified Saviour, in grisaille, creating an illusion of marble. In 1639, he completed the paintings of the high altar of the Carthusians in Jerez. [28]