The Labours of the Months: May
The Venetian Labours of the Months series in the National Gallery, London presents miniature Renaissance scenes of rural life, with May showing a young man preparing agricultural supports in a symbolic, seasonal rhythm.
Anastasis at the Monastery of Hosios Loukas
The Anastasis mosaic at the Monastery of Hosios Loukas presents the Resurrection as Christ descends into Hades, a masterpiece of 11th-century Byzantine mosaic art radiating spiritual intensity and imperial grandeur.
The Raising of Lazarus by Duccio
The Maestà of Duccio di Buoninsegna, a monumental altarpiece for Siena Cathedral, bridges Byzantine tradition and emerging Renaissance naturalism in a profoundly devotional visual language.
The Interceding Theotokos at Dumbarton Oaks
Interceding Theotokos - Virgin Hagiosoritissa Relief, Middle Byzantine, mid-eleventh century, Marble, 104 cm x 40 cm x 7 cm, Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington, DC, USA https://www.doaks.org/resources/bliss-tyler-correspondence/art/bz/BZ.1938.62.jpg/view ...
Villa Poppaea Viridarium Frescoes
Second Pompeian Style painting on the walls surrounding the Viridarium (small garden) of the Villa Poppaea at Oplontis (Italy), 1st century ADPhoto credit: Carole Raddato published on 06 May 2020https://www.ancient.eu/article/1552/a-visitors-guide-to-opl ...
Angelic Musicians
, oil on canvas, 2.940,00x2.090,00 mm, Banco Santander, Spainhttps://el.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF:Domenikos_Theotokopoulos,_El_Greco_-_The_Annunciation_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Domenicos Theotokopoulos is in my heart. I ...
Odilon Redon and Pandora’s Box
Odilon Redon, 1840-1916Pandora, 1910/1912, oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62.9 cm, NGA, Washington DC, USA https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46531.html#bibliography It is nature also who orders us to obey the gifts she has given us. Mine have led ...
Lips Monastery in Constantinople
Lips Monastery in Constantinople, East Side of both South and North Churches, 10h and 13h cent., Constantinople. Today the Byzantine Church is a Mosque known as Fenari Isa Cami. https://grandeflanerie.com/portfolio/byzantineistanbul/7/ “The frequent ...
The Labours of the Months: April
By an unknown Venetian artist…The Labours of the Months: April, about 1580, oil on canvas, 13.6 x 10.6 cm, National Gallery, Londonhttps://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/italian-venetian-the-labours-of-the-months-january#painting-group-info Whan ...
Kanaris Burning the Turkish Flagship
Nikiforos Lytras, 1832-1927Kanaris Burning the Turkish Flagship, 1873, oil on canvas, 143x109 cm, Averoff Gallery, Metsovo, Greece https://www.averoffmuseum.gr/kanaris-burning-the-turkish-flagship/?lang=en “Mais le bon Canaris, ...