Ecstasy of St Margaret of Cortona, Giovanni Lanfranco (1622)
Tag: catholicism
Louise Bourgeois – The Cross 2002 Bronze, Private Collection, Paris
As Rose came up, the land and all it bears rejoiced, and all the trees of the wood shouted for joy.
leonardo da vinci, adoration of the magi, 1481
El Espolio de San Sebastián, Pedro Centeno Vallenilla, 1934.
If in Christ and in the martyrs part is whole, perhaps we too shall be—even are—whole in every fragment no matter how threatened by consumption, death, and decay.
Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Notes
A 14th Century portrait that hung in a Cambridge museum for decades has been revealed as double-sided after a 600-hour restoration project. The Virgin Mary and Christ Child by Italian Renaissance artist Pietro di Niccolo da Orvieto, had been on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Conservators preparing it for an exhibition found another painting on the reverse panel. Experts believe it depicts the wound Jesus Christ sustained on the cross. Read on
Cola dell’Amatrice, “Mary feeding with Her milk the suffering Souls in Purgatory”, 1508 ca.
Municipio, Chieti
Mary Magdalene, polychrome wood sculpture, Augsburg 1515-1520 musee du louvre
Little Bristling Soul 