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Zephyros
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Abandoned Churches ...
There’s something almost disconcerting about an abandoned church. The idea of a place for meditation and pious reflection passing quietly away into ruin is somehow spooky: like witnessing a religion itself fall into disuse and die. Perhaps it’s because churches are places designed to invoke feelings of the sublime and trigger thoughts on infinity and death. Perhaps it’s because we subconsciously associate them with horror movies. Either way, there’s something darkly magnificent about the following religious ruins ...
some more ...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dianabruk/...ound-the-world?utm_term=.xxLpkEjOn#.uumv3k84Y
There’s something almost disconcerting about an abandoned church. The idea of a place for meditation and pious reflection passing quietly away into ruin is somehow spooky: like witnessing a religion itself fall into disuse and die. Perhaps it’s because churches are places designed to invoke feelings of the sublime and trigger thoughts on infinity and death. Perhaps it’s because we subconsciously associate them with horror movies. Either way, there’s something darkly magnificent about the following religious ruins ...
some more ...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dianabruk/...ound-the-world?utm_term=.xxLpkEjOn#.uumv3k84Y
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These would be welcome on the resource thread:
http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/wanted-background-pics-models-e-t-c.3298/
http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/wanted-background-pics-models-e-t-c.3298/
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Zephyros
Magistrate
Hidden Erotics
The great masterpieces of erotica appeared when it was forbidden to write about sex. Both the author (often a well-known and otherwise respectable writer) and the editor were forced to act in anonimity and, if exposed, could be subjected to a harsh sentence. Dangerous, outlaw literature: it wasn’t written with the purpose of seeling hundreds of thousands of copies, but rather to be sold under the counter to the few who could understand it.
Double-faced pendant: the woman’s legs can be closed, and on the back a romantic flowered heart takes shape.
Then there were objects featuring a hinge, a device that had to be activated, or removable parts. Some statuettes, such as the beautiful bronzes created by Bergman‘s famous Austrian forgery, were perfect art nouveau decorations, but still concealed a spicy little secret.
The most basic kind of objects à système had false bottoms and secret compartments.
Double-faced pendant: the woman’s legs can be closed, and on the back a romantic flowered heart takes shape.
Then there were objects featuring a hinge, a device that had to be activated, or removable parts. Some statuettes, such as the beautiful bronzes created by Bergman‘s famous Austrian forgery, were perfect art nouveau decorations, but still concealed a spicy little secret.
Other, slightly more elaborate objects presented a double face: a change of perspective was needed in order to discover their indecent side. A classic example from the beginning of the XX Century are ceramic sculptures or ashtrays which, when turned upside down, held some surprises.
The following figures were a real classic, and with many variations ended up printed on pillboxes, dishes, matchstick boxes, and several other utensiles. At first glance, they don’t look obscene at all; their secret becomes only clear when they are turned uspide down
and some more ...
tbc ...
The great masterpieces of erotica appeared when it was forbidden to write about sex. Both the author (often a well-known and otherwise respectable writer) and the editor were forced to act in anonimity and, if exposed, could be subjected to a harsh sentence. Dangerous, outlaw literature: it wasn’t written with the purpose of seeling hundreds of thousands of copies, but rather to be sold under the counter to the few who could understand it.
Double-faced pendant: the woman’s legs can be closed, and on the back a romantic flowered heart takes shape.
Then there were objects featuring a hinge, a device that had to be activated, or removable parts. Some statuettes, such as the beautiful bronzes created by Bergman‘s famous Austrian forgery, were perfect art nouveau decorations, but still concealed a spicy little secret.
The most basic kind of objects à système had false bottoms and secret compartments.
Double-faced pendant: the woman’s legs can be closed, and on the back a romantic flowered heart takes shape.
Then there were objects featuring a hinge, a device that had to be activated, or removable parts. Some statuettes, such as the beautiful bronzes created by Bergman‘s famous Austrian forgery, were perfect art nouveau decorations, but still concealed a spicy little secret.
Other, slightly more elaborate objects presented a double face: a change of perspective was needed in order to discover their indecent side. A classic example from the beginning of the XX Century are ceramic sculptures or ashtrays which, when turned upside down, held some surprises.
The following figures were a real classic, and with many variations ended up printed on pillboxes, dishes, matchstick boxes, and several other utensiles. At first glance, they don’t look obscene at all; their secret becomes only clear when they are turned uspide down
and some more ...
tbc ...
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Zephyros
Magistrate
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in time, the artisans came up with ever more creative ideas.
For instance there were decorations composed of two separate figurines, showing a beautiful and chaste young girl in the company of a gallant faun. But it was enough to alter the charachters’ position in order to see the continuation of their affair, and to verify how successful the satyr’s seduction had been.
Some images in this thread are taken from Jean-Pierre Bourgeron, Les Masques d’Eros – Les objets érotiques de collection à système (1985, Editions de l’amateur, Paris).
in time, the artisans came up with ever more creative ideas.
For instance there were decorations composed of two separate figurines, showing a beautiful and chaste young girl in the company of a gallant faun. But it was enough to alter the charachters’ position in order to see the continuation of their affair, and to verify how successful the satyr’s seduction had been.
Some images in this thread are taken from Jean-Pierre Bourgeron, Les Masques d’Eros – Les objets érotiques de collection à système (1985, Editions de l’amateur, Paris).
Zephyros
Magistrate
Image Of A Crucified Woman Of Our Time
»Image of a crucified woman of our time« by Kurt Fahrner
An example of the conservatism of the 1950s is the scandal surrounding the painter Kurt Fahrner,130 who publicly displayed his painting ‘Image of a crucified woman of our time’ (a naked woman on a cross) at the Barfüsserplatz in Basel on 29 April 1959. He was arrested by the police; the picturc was confiscated; and Fahrner was sentenced to three days in prison on probation and fined 100 francs. The judges stated in their verdict: such a representation bordering on obscenity, with the redemptive death of Christ placed in parallel, does injury in the meanest way to the religious beliefs of others ...
Fahrner, Kurt
(* 4.12.1932 Basel, † 13.9.1977 Basel / CH)
more of his artworks @
http://www.kurt-fahrner.ch/Aktuell/Hauptwerke.htm
»Image of a crucified woman of our time« by Kurt Fahrner
An example of the conservatism of the 1950s is the scandal surrounding the painter Kurt Fahrner,130 who publicly displayed his painting ‘Image of a crucified woman of our time’ (a naked woman on a cross) at the Barfüsserplatz in Basel on 29 April 1959. He was arrested by the police; the picturc was confiscated; and Fahrner was sentenced to three days in prison on probation and fined 100 francs. The judges stated in their verdict: such a representation bordering on obscenity, with the redemptive death of Christ placed in parallel, does injury in the meanest way to the religious beliefs of others ...
Fahrner, Kurt
(* 4.12.1932 Basel, † 13.9.1977 Basel / CH)
more of his artworks @
http://www.kurt-fahrner.ch/Aktuell/Hauptwerke.htm
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Zephyros
Magistrate
Holy Cross By Martina Biccheri
How many prejudices hold a woman to her cross?
Nowadays women produce more than half of the world’s food still they’re deeply involved into issues like forced marriage, slavery, prostitution, pornography, human trafficking, mutilation and domestic violence.
This photo manipulation is a symbolic piece of digital art made in name of all the suffering and all the daily wars women are still fighting.
Arms holding back a woman causing her to live a life she doesn’t belong to, crucified by ignorance.
http://www.martinabiccheri.com/holy-cross
How many prejudices hold a woman to her cross?
Nowadays women produce more than half of the world’s food still they’re deeply involved into issues like forced marriage, slavery, prostitution, pornography, human trafficking, mutilation and domestic violence.
This photo manipulation is a symbolic piece of digital art made in name of all the suffering and all the daily wars women are still fighting.
Arms holding back a woman causing her to live a life she doesn’t belong to, crucified by ignorance.
http://www.martinabiccheri.com/holy-cross
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windar
Teller of Tales
We've been having quite a serious discussion about slavery today on the "Plantation Plight" thread.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
A very interesting picture.
She really looks crucified to a living cross.
Zephyros
Magistrate
»penitent Mary Magdalene«
Mary Magdalene - sometimes the Magdalene - is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is named at least 12 times, more than most of the apostles.
In »The Da Vinci Code«, Mary Magdalene played an important role: Jesus’ earthly partner and mother of his children. And even though much of the speculation contained therein doesn’t hit the mark, with this book Dan Brown explained to millions of readers that, in religious matters, woman and the feminine need to be brought back into balance with man. In this way, »The Da Vinci Code« is also an homage to the Goddess.
Here are some of my favorites …
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi
(*1563 Pisa, +1639 London)
»Penitent Mary Magdalene«
about 1626/1628
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi
Mary Magdalene In Ecstasy
Guido Cagnacci
1601 San Arcangelo di Romagna - 1663 Wien
»Die büßende Maria Magdalena«
after 1659
The Lost Art Project: Batoni’s St. Mary Magdalene
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures.
»Die büßende Maria Magdalena« after Pompeo Batoni (Italian, 1708-1787) ST. MARY MAGDALENE oil on canvas 24 by 37.5in., 60 by 93.75cm. The present lot is after Pompeo Batoni`s Saint Mary Magdalene, which formerly hung in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. The original was destroyed in World War II, during three Allied bombing raids of Dresden between 13 and 14 February, 1945.The sheltered grotto scene depicts a recumbent Mary Magdalene, with exposed shoulder and chest; hands clasped reading a book propped up by a human skull. Hints of a mountainous landscape in the distance can be seen in the right middle ground and above centre where the rocks part slightly to shine light on the scene. Batoni was influenced by Raphael and was celebrated for his technique, draughtsmanship and reverence for antiquity. Born in Lucca, Batoni studied inRome, where he moved in 1727, setting up a studio and home there in Via Bocca di Leone. From 1735 he received numerous commissions for altarpieces, mythological and historical pictures as well as portraits. Papal commissions ensued and he became curator of the Papal collections. He died in Rome. His work can be found in the collection of the Galleria Borghese, Rome, Uffizi, Florence, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Museo del Prado, Madrid and Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna among others.
Pierre & Gilles: »Magdalena«
Auguste Rodin: »Christ et la Madeleine«
Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917)
CHRIST AND THE MAGDALEN
Circa 1894
Christ and the Magdalen is one of the rare surviving sculptures inspired by religion in Rodin’s oeuvre, and possibly corresponds to a reworked version of an earlier lost Christ, influenced by Antoine-Augustin Préault (1809-79).
Clinging to this emaciated, suffering Christ, whose overly heavy head seems to have dropped sideways, is a woman, the Magdalen, a figure originally designed for one of the damned souls on The Gates of Hell , who was then used in Meditation , the muse in Monument to Victor Hugo. The present group, which would be translated into marble for Baron Thyssen circa 1905, underscores, as Rilke wrote, “the contrast between the two bodies, imposed by the marble, [which] immediately produces an impression of the boundless sadness emanating from this subject.” The Symbolistic character of the work is enhanced by it, while the sensuality of the female figure distracts the spectator from the subject.
Félicien Rops
There are around thirty works by Félicien Rops covering the width of his oeuvre. His career commenced as an illustrator of the publication L’Uylenspiegel, which he himself set up. Here he published artistic, political and social caricatures in lithography. Like Goya, Rops defended freedom of speech and strived against the moral rigidity of the bourgeoisie and the clergy. He cherished the fact that he was unknown and did not wish to become famous.
The Penitent Magdalene is a painting of saint Mary Magdalene by Titian dating to around 1533, signed 'TITIANUS' on the vase to the left. It is now in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
The Penitent Magdalene is a 1565 oil painting by Titian of saint Mary Magdalene, now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Unlike his 1533 version of the same subject, Titian has covered Mary's nudity and introduced a vase, an open book and a skull as a memento mori. Its colouring is more mature than the earlier work, using colours harmonising with character. In the background the sky is bathed in the rays of the setting sun, with a dark rock contrasting with the brightly lit figure of Mary.
And finally an art work based on Hayez:
Mary Magdalene - sometimes the Magdalene - is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is named at least 12 times, more than most of the apostles.
In »The Da Vinci Code«, Mary Magdalene played an important role: Jesus’ earthly partner and mother of his children. And even though much of the speculation contained therein doesn’t hit the mark, with this book Dan Brown explained to millions of readers that, in religious matters, woman and the feminine need to be brought back into balance with man. In this way, »The Da Vinci Code« is also an homage to the Goddess.
Here are some of my favorites …
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi
(*1563 Pisa, +1639 London)
»Penitent Mary Magdalene«about 1626/1628
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi
Mary Magdalene In Ecstasy
Guido Cagnacci
1601 San Arcangelo di Romagna - 1663 Wien
»Die büßende Maria Magdalena«
after 1659
The Lost Art Project: Batoni’s St. Mary Magdalene
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures.
»Die büßende Maria Magdalena« after Pompeo Batoni (Italian, 1708-1787) ST. MARY MAGDALENE oil on canvas 24 by 37.5in., 60 by 93.75cm. The present lot is after Pompeo Batoni`s Saint Mary Magdalene, which formerly hung in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. The original was destroyed in World War II, during three Allied bombing raids of Dresden between 13 and 14 February, 1945.The sheltered grotto scene depicts a recumbent Mary Magdalene, with exposed shoulder and chest; hands clasped reading a book propped up by a human skull. Hints of a mountainous landscape in the distance can be seen in the right middle ground and above centre where the rocks part slightly to shine light on the scene. Batoni was influenced by Raphael and was celebrated for his technique, draughtsmanship and reverence for antiquity. Born in Lucca, Batoni studied inRome, where he moved in 1727, setting up a studio and home there in Via Bocca di Leone. From 1735 he received numerous commissions for altarpieces, mythological and historical pictures as well as portraits. Papal commissions ensued and he became curator of the Papal collections. He died in Rome. His work can be found in the collection of the Galleria Borghese, Rome, Uffizi, Florence, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Museo del Prado, Madrid and Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna among others.
Pierre & Gilles: »Magdalena«
Auguste Rodin: »Christ et la Madeleine«
Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917)
CHRIST AND THE MAGDALEN
Circa 1894
Christ and the Magdalen is one of the rare surviving sculptures inspired by religion in Rodin’s oeuvre, and possibly corresponds to a reworked version of an earlier lost Christ, influenced by Antoine-Augustin Préault (1809-79).
Clinging to this emaciated, suffering Christ, whose overly heavy head seems to have dropped sideways, is a woman, the Magdalen, a figure originally designed for one of the damned souls on The Gates of Hell , who was then used in Meditation , the muse in Monument to Victor Hugo. The present group, which would be translated into marble for Baron Thyssen circa 1905, underscores, as Rilke wrote, “the contrast between the two bodies, imposed by the marble, [which] immediately produces an impression of the boundless sadness emanating from this subject.” The Symbolistic character of the work is enhanced by it, while the sensuality of the female figure distracts the spectator from the subject.
Félicien Rops
There are around thirty works by Félicien Rops covering the width of his oeuvre. His career commenced as an illustrator of the publication L’Uylenspiegel, which he himself set up. Here he published artistic, political and social caricatures in lithography. Like Goya, Rops defended freedom of speech and strived against the moral rigidity of the bourgeoisie and the clergy. He cherished the fact that he was unknown and did not wish to become famous.
The Penitent Magdalene is a painting of saint Mary Magdalene by Titian dating to around 1533, signed 'TITIANUS' on the vase to the left. It is now in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
The Penitent Magdalene is a 1565 oil painting by Titian of saint Mary Magdalene, now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Unlike his 1533 version of the same subject, Titian has covered Mary's nudity and introduced a vase, an open book and a skull as a memento mori. Its colouring is more mature than the earlier work, using colours harmonising with character. In the background the sky is bathed in the rays of the setting sun, with a dark rock contrasting with the brightly lit figure of Mary.
And finally an art work based on Hayez:
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Is there a story behind the skull and the book? A book or codex of that type would have been pretty uncommon in her time.
Maria Magdalena
German
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Magdalena
English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Ooops sorry! THANKS ZEPHYROS!Anyway, a fascinating character, Mary Magdalene. Thanks Phlebas.
(Particularly, Félicien Rops did his best!)
