Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Deified

Luigi Sabatelli
Council of the Gods
ca. 1819-25
ceiling painting
Galleria Palatina, Florence


Anonymous French Artist
God the Father
17th century
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist after Pietro Perugino
God the Father
16th century
drawing
British Museum

Jean Pénicaud III
God the Father speaking to Moses out of the Burning Bush
ca. 1560
enamel on copper (Limoges)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Makers
Pitcher with God the Father appearing out of the Burning Bush to Moses
ca. 1550-1600
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Jacopo Bassano
Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

attributed to Dieric Bouts
God speaking to Moses from the Burning Bush
ca. 1465-70
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Francesco Albani
Mercury bearing a message from Jupiter to Apollo
before 1660
oil on canvas
Palazzo Corsini, Rome

attributed to Giuseppe Piamontini
Jupiter with Eagle
ca. 1700
bronze
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Joachim Wtewael
Jupiter descending into the Chamber of Danaë
ca. 1595-1605
oil on copper
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (il Grechetto)
God the Father appearing at the Nativity of his Son
ca. 1645-50
etching
British Museum

Joseph von Führich
God the Father summoning Noah and his Family into the Ark
ca. 1827
wood-engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Antonio Viviani (il Sordo)
God's Promises to Abraham
ca. 1612
fresco
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

workshop of Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)
God the Father
ca. 1500-1530
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Molosso)
God the Father in Clouds with the Virgin
ca. 1591-94
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Francesco Albani
The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities
ca. 1627-32
oil on canvas (altarpiece)
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Galliera, Bologna

Andrea Camassei
God the Father creating the Angels
1626
ceiling painting
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Epitaph: Chryseomallus the Mime

    Of gold then
but now locked in brass,
no more to lend breath
    to old tales,
your silence does not charm:
it chills, it weighs down
    our cold hearts.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Andrew Miller