REALLY TEMPTS JESUS |
Can I vote twice??
#1 is a stunning portrait
#4 illustrates the somberness of the moment - and the rocks look so real they appear to be a photograph
What a profound lesson for humanity! Thank you for all the powerful photos of today’s lesson.
In Italian we say in jest, when we want to push away someone or something abrasive to us: “Pussa via, Satan” (Go away from me, Satan)
Good Morning, Dan. :-)
Good Morning Dan, and happy Sunday everyone!
One of your most exciting groups. The solitude and isolation of that wilderness must have been difficult, even for the Savior.
#4 Kramskoy
#20 Solomon - Is that pencil? Wonderful
#29 Scheffer
#32 Bloch
Many depict Satan as old, but #11 Titian shows him as a very young man.
Thank You Dan!
Favorites: #4 (always a favorite), #28, #32. And of course, #39, our Lord as an exhausted prizefighter resting in His corner of the ring, attended by the angels.
The most compelling pictures, I think, are the ones in which the Tempter is not so obviously present; the Enemy would want to persuade our Lord that He was alone and that the tempting thoughts and desires were His own.
This is the only time, iirc, that I could choose just 1: That is, #4 by Ivan Kramskoy. I think it’s because He has a look on His face that we’ve all known a time or three in our lives and so can identify with it. (Much, much worse in His case, of course and however.) That is in addition to the grand beauty of the painting itself.