Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Picture Biography of Christ - European Traditions - II

Mattia Preti
Marriage at Cana
ca. 1655-60
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Molosso)
Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
before 1619
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Sebastiano Ricci
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
ca. 1715-20
oil on canvas
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

Ludovico Carracci
Christ at the Pool of Bethesda
ca. 1580-1600
drawing
(study for altarpiece)
Musée du Louvre

Marco Marziale
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
ca. 1506
oil on canvas
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

David Teniers the Elder
The Raising of Lazarus
ca. 1630-40
oil on panel
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Bernardino Campi
The Raising of Lazarus
1569
drawing
(study for altarpiece)
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays
The Raising of Lazarus
ca. 1763
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Girolamo Macchietti
Christ driving Money-Changers from the Temple
ca. 1570
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Christ stilling the Waters
before 1804
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Christ walking on Water
before 1804
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Lodovico Cardi
Christ stilling the Storm
ca. 1590
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Gian Paolo Panini
Christ with Apostles
before 1765
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Frei Carlos de Lisboa
Risen Christ appears to his Mother
1529
oil on panel
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

Giovanni Battista della Rovere
Triumph of Christ
before 1630
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

from The Messiah Reconsidered

What riddle
do we with our few days
make of our messiah –
That there is
no body lighter
than water? 
How could he have walked
on the surface
like those words walking
on stilts
across the white page?

– Myra Sklarew (1987)