Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
St. Augustine is pictured sitting in his Italian studiolo, or a study that is a private cabinet or room. [2] These studies, also known as kunstkammer, wunderkammer or cabinets of curiosities, were typically used to display collectors items, and became popular in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. [2]
Saint Augustine in His Study. Shortly after the year 1502, Vittore Carpaccio's Saint Augustine in His Study was painted and signed with the inscription: VICTOR / CARPATHIVS / FINGEBAT. [13] The artist situates the saint in an idealized interior domestic space, alluding to contemporary practices in the art of collecting during the Renaissance ...
Externally, over the entrance is a relief with St. George Killing the Dragon (1552), by Pietro di Salò and, above it, a "Virgin Enthroned with Saints" (mid-14th century) by a Venetian sculptor. The ground hall has on its four walls the paintings commissioned to Carpaccio, inspired by Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend: St. Augustine in His Study
It portrays Augustine of Hippo in meditation inside his study. The precise subject is a legend, probably first found in the 13th century, of a vision Augustine had as he began to write a letter to Jerome in his study at Hippo in 420. The time is shown on the clock by his head as the end of the twenty-fourth hour, counting from the previous sunset.
Vittore Carpaccio’s “Saint Augustine in His Study” showed the architect how rooms, both real and imagined, can create moments of awe. What a 16th-Century Painting Taught Billie Tsien About ...
Saint Augustine in His Study may refer to: Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Uffizi) Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Ognissanti)
Saint Augustine (Pinturicchio) Saint Augustine Altarpiece (Huguet) Saint Augustine and Alypius Receiving Ponticianus; Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Ognissanti) Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Uffizi) St. Augustine in His Study (Carpaccio) Saint Augustine's Vision of the Christ-Child by a River; San Pietro di Muralto Altarpiece
St. Augustine is quoted as saying, "Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you." Proverbs 10:4 (ESV) says, "A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the ...