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Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. [1] She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. [ 2 ]
The life of Christ as a narrative cycle in Christian art comprises a number of different subjects showing events from the life of Jesus on Earth. They are distinguished from the many other subjects in art showing the eternal life of Christ, such as Christ in Majesty , and also many types of portrait or devotional subjects without a narrative ...
C. The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew; The Calling of Saint Matthew; Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg before Christ on the Cross; Christ Among the Doctors (Dürer)
Christ taking Leave of his Mother, by Albrecht Altdorfer c. 1520, one of the treatments with a landscape background.. The subject does not illustrate any Biblical passage, but derives from one of the Pseudo-Bonaventura's "Meditations on the life of Christ" (1308), and the "Marienleben" (German for "Life of the Virgin"; about 1300) by Philipp von Seitz [], also known as "Brother Philipp, the ...
Monument to Richard Brassey Hole in Salisbury Cathedral. Hole was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, the son of a doctor, Richard Brassey Hole and his wife Ann Burn Hole (nee Fergusson); his father died in the cholera epidemic of 1849, when William was only 3 years of age, and the family relocated to Edinburgh, Scotland, shortly afterwards.
The works evoke three major stages in the life of the apostle Saint Matthew: his calling by Jesus Christ (The Calling of St Matthew), his writing of the Gospel guided by an angel (The Inspiration of Saint Matthew), and his martyrdom (The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew). They are still preserved in the Church of St. Louis of the French.
The Shadow of Death is a religious painting by the English painter William Holman Hunt, on which he worked from 1870 to 1873, during his second trip to the Holy Land. [1] It depicts Jesus as a young man prior to his ministry, working as a carpenter.
Janet McKenzie is an American artist known for her depictions of religious themes which represent a wide range of human subjects. Her painting "Jesus of the People," for which she used an African American woman as the model, won the Jesus 2000 competition hosted by the National Catholic Reporter.