Esther
before the King
by the ItalianBaroque painter
Andrea Celesti (1637-1712).
Monday, July 7, 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Salome Receiving Her Trophy
Salome
by the Italian Baroque painter Gian Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666).
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Cruel Work
Judith
and Holofernes (c 1615-8) by the Italian painter Giovanni Francesco
Guerrieri (1589-1655).
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Dutch Scenery
Hagar
and Ismael in a Dutch landscape by the Dutch Mannerist Painter
Abraham Bloemaert (ca.1564-1651).
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Eve Lost
Eve
(1889) looks really lost on this painting by the French artist Paul
Gauguin (1848-1903).
Monday, April 28, 2014
Kind of Salome
A modern interpretation
of Salome by the American fantasy artist Gerald
Brom (born 1965).
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Two Intrusive Elders
Susanna_and_the_Elders
by Guerrieri by the Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri
(1589-1655).
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Freaky Composition
Judith with the Head of
Holofernes by theItalian Mannerist painter Jacopo Coppi (1523-1591).
Friday, March 28, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
Exotic Setting
Vashti Deposed (1890)
by the British painter Ernest Normand (1859-1923). Normand was kind
of a specialist in mythological and historical nudes.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Disguised Seduction
Judah and Tamar (1644)
by the Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker Ferdinand Bol
(1616-1680).
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Joseph on the Run
Joseph
and Potiphar’s Wife (1610) by the Italian Mannerist painter
Lodovico Cardi (1559-1613) also known as Cigoli.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Eternal Sin
Daphne
Guinness by Markus Klinkoo. The woman with the snake is a popular
icon for sin and seduction.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Sweet Rebecca
Rebecca at the Well
illustration by the American painter Michael Deas.
Rebecca is the symbol of a good caring woman and as the mother
of Jacob one of the most important matriarchs of the bible.
