Posted on 09/18/2023 6:43:13 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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1 ROCCO MARCONI "Christ and the Adulteress" 2 REMBRANDT "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery" 3 Detail #1 Source 4 Detail #2 Source 5 VASILY POLENOV "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery" 6 Detail #1 7 VASILY POLENOV "Detail #2" 8 VASILY POLENOV "Detail #3" 9 LORENZO LOTTO "Christ and the Adulteress" 10 POLIDORO DA LANCIANO "Christ and the Adulteress" 11 GUSTAVE DORÉ "Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery" 12 GUERCINO "Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery" 13 "Christ with the Woman Taken In Adultery" 14 DOMENICO MORELLI "Cristo y la Mujer Adúltera" 15 ISAAK ASKNAZIY "Jesus and the Adulteress" 16 WALTER RANE "He That Is without Sin" 17 Source 18 Source 19 Source 20 TITIAN "Christ and the Adulteress" 21 ALESSANDRO TURCHI "Cristo e l’Adultera" 22 ALESSANDRO VAROTARI "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery" 23 PIETRO DELLA VECCHIA "Christ and the Adulteress" 24 NICOLAS COLOMBEL "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery" 25 ÉMILE SIGNOL "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery" 26 RODOLPHO BERNARDELLI "Christ and the Adulterous Woman" 27 JAMES TISSOT "The Adulterous Woman Alone with Jesus" Masthead Painting: “GUEST” by Andrey Mironov |
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Very beautiful paintings.
#5 Polenov
#11 Dore’
#13
#16 Rane
Thank you, Dan!
Yes, much better. Thanks, Alba. I guess I wasn’t troubled by the inferior quality because I had the two clear details. Just infernal laziness.
So beautiful and so exquisite!
If you say so!
I’ve always thought that what Jesus wrote on the ground was the verse Deuteronomy 22:24.
you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Polenov was a remarkable Russian painter. He summarized his vision of life as: “Art should promote happiness and joy”. Indeed!
That’s certainly possible. From the outcome, however—assuming it was Scripture He wrote—perhaps a better possibility might be, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice” or something similar.
Regardless, God chose not to reveal to us what Jesus wrote. Instead, all we have is the spectacle of Jesus taking time for due consideration of some type before He addressed the crowd. Indeed, who can doubt that the time he thus absorbed was designed to calm the passions of the rockholders?
So, that calm, deliberative, reasoned process remains our example.
i can think of a few artists who would have benefited from adopting that attitude.
I would normally agree with you, because that is a reasonable supposition on the verse. However, I believe none of the Pharisees and scribes cared one whit for mercy in this situation, they wanted to find Jesus in a fault. But having the possibility of themselves being stoned for their misdeeds was an outcome they were not interested in. Jesus already had shown He knew many things about people and they could have deduced He knew something about them, especially if He was writing that particular reference.
I am saying that God deliberately chose not to tell us what Jesus wrote so that we would focus instead on Jesus’ process, which presumably included consulting the Holy Spirit. God wants us to emulate Him.
Art should relate a story of emotion.
Beautiful! #16 really captures the moment.
It does, indeed. Grab a rock!
Hello Dan, and what a gathering of great paintings; a wonderful way to start a new week.
Thank you Dan.
Coming down the homestretch of this Women's series--three more still to post.
This series has been much appreciated.
We’ll see if you say the same thing about the next one: MARTYRS.
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