Painting the Word
John Drury
Number of quotes: 5
Book ID: 174 Page: 4
Section: 2E1
Lost and buried at that time to the world of human beings, it was preserved under the protection of God until she unearthed it, later on, in the Holy Land. Christ’s cross
Quote ID: 3878
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 174 Page: 6
Section: 3A1
Christ reclines with a languid nobility, touched with hauteur, which reminds one of the point made by a preacher to an aristocratic audience: that not only was he the Son of God, he also came of an excellent family on his mother’s side.
Quote ID: 3879
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 174 Page: 30
Section: 2A3
Venetian society was strongly relic-based. Its foundation legend told how the body of St. Mark came, by divine will, to rest in the cathedral there which bears his name and was the center of the city’s whole life.
Quote ID: 3881
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 174 Page: 62
Section: 2D1
The striking thing is that Poussin sets the Nativity in his own Rome with its battered and venerable ruins. He had the historical curiosity and awareness to avoid such anachronism. He had already taken pains to set ancient events, such as the death of Germanicus, in the pristine ancient settings which they would really have had. And when, ten years on, he painted a series on the sacraments, Roman ecclesiastical primacy suggested making the background to Ordination - Christ giving authority to Peter, the first Pope - a careful reconstruction of first-century Rome.
Quote ID: 3882
Time Periods: 37
Book ID: 174 Page: 75
Section: 2B
The classical Renaissance opened a cornucopia of resources for the visual representation of God’s incarnation in Christ’s body. Apollo, the pagan god of light, had been taken into Christ by early Christian painters and teachers.Translation by: AJW; Socrates (NPNF2 vol. 2, p. 14)
Quote ID: 3885
Time Periods: ?
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