Friday, April 21, 2023

Contexts of Piety - European Imagery (Traditional, Generic)

Domenico Campagnola after Titian
Group of Apostles
ca. 1517-18
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Baccio Bandinelli
Scene of Martyrdom with Spectators
ca. 1532-33
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giulio Campi
Five Cherubs with Instruments of the Passion
ca. 1539
drawing
(study for fresco)
Musée du Louvre

Jacopo Bertoia
Construction of a Temple
ca. 1560-65
drawing
(study for fresco)
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Guerra
Scene in a Church
ca. 1580
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Guerra
Scene of Preaching
ca. 1580
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Bernardino Campi
Scene of Baptism
ca. 1580-90
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Carlo Urbino
Three Apostles
before 1585
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Simon Vouet
Kneeling Figure
ca. 1635
drawing
(study for painting, Apotheosis of St Eustache)
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Baglione
Murder of a Priest-Saint at the Altar
before 1644
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Eustache Le Sueur
Study for Kneeling Angel
before 1655
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Michel Corneille the Younger
Return to Jerusalem after the Crucifixion
ca. 1660-70
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Louis Boullogne the Younger
Youth with Censer
ca. 1713-15
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

Louis-Jean Desprez
Illuminated Cross for Holy Thursday
in St Peter's Basilica, Rome

ca. 1782
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier
Standing Ecclesiastic with Arms Upraised
before 1824
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

George Henry Harlow
The Virtue of Faith
1817
oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art

from The Terrible Sons

The terrible sons of the mighty race
Shout in thunder the Lord is King,
The angels whose figure the lightnings trace
Flame to the world that the Lord was King,
And seraphs whose stature is one with Space,
Proclaim that the Lord shall be King for ever.
The Lord is King, the Lord was King, the Lord shall be King for ever and ever.

The rushing and undulant sons of fire
Fiercely cry that the Lord is King,
The rustling legions with harp and lyre
Sweetly tell that the Lord was King,
And numberless creatures in ceaseless choir
Chant that the Lord shall be King for ever.
The Lord is King, the Lord was King, the Lord shall be King for ever and ever.

– Eleazar Ben Kalir (AD 600), translated by Israel Zangwill (1864-1927)