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- Aunty Belle
- Aunty Belle is taken from Antebellum, a time of civility and respect fer the foundations of Western Civilization. Y'all can find me rockin' on the porches most days. Be neighborly and come sit a spell. Bring yore dawgs. Mah iced tea is the best, evah.(About yore third visit mah Cracker-speak will become intelligible. I'se sorry iffin' new folks find it odd) We's lighthearted on the Front porch http://abporkrinds.blogspot.com/ so iffin' ya want some high octane debate, jes c'mon around to the Back Porch.http://auntybelles.blogspot.com/
10 comments:
Wow. The artists did not sugar-coat his death. Nor should they have. I've never seen these.
Happy Mute Monday!
Ouch.
Happy MM and despite the end of his life, these are beautiful.
Quite the commentary Belle.
Beautiful art albeit a gruesome reminder of the faith and courage of early Christians.
Now, America's Christians won't even get off their sofas to go safely vote for good over evil.
John lost his head and zoomed to heaven. Americans have lost their minds and are zooming our country to it's demise.
Hope yours is a happy keep-your-head Monday
Some powerful images there Aunty. But the whole time I'm looking at them, I'm thinking of this:
Austin Powers: Not the time to lose one's head.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: That's not the way to get ahead in life.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: It's a shame he wasn't more headstrong.
Vanessa Kensington: Hmm.
Austin Powers: He'll never be the head of a major corporation.
Vanessa Kensington: Okay, that'll do.
Austin Powers: Okay.
Happy MM!
I was hoping someone would go this route. I see you've included at least three Carravaggio's – interesting to see the different treatments. Who did the beautiful sketch? Happy Mute Monday!
Troll,
nope, they shouldn't.
Boxer-Babe
thanky--the great artists all seemd to want to do a version of his story.
Fishy,
heh--great delvin' into the message--youse on it.
BuzzK
ya slay me! How'd ya git to be so funny??
Moi,
Ain't odd that Caravaggio painted this story over and over??
Along wif Titian, Rubens, DaVinci (whose version I left out as I doan care fer it)
The drawing is in fact a charcoal done by John Murray in 2005 as prep for a mural like painting in the new Jesuit residence on the campus of Georgetown University. I have seen the finished works of art--gorgeous!
For a look-see, go here:
http://www.johnfrancismurray.com/georgetown/st_John_drawing.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.johnfrancismurray.com/religious.htm&usg=__1st9deRw0-DPCh56BXDJymwe07Q=&h=1000&w=451&sz=65&hl=en&start=116&tbnid=Zj9b6lJz4AaOoM:&tbnh=149&tbnw=67&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djohn%2Bthe%2Bbaptist%2B%252B%2Bsketch%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D108
I looked for a very long time at each picture. I love this oldy-woldy art of John B.
Happy MM Auntie!
#5 is very weird. a bit too equus if you git mah drift. poor john.
very powerful.
Happy Mute Monday Aunty.
I have to agree with Chicory. #5 looks like a man that needs to know the difference between loving your livestock and "Loving" your livestock.
I always admired John. He was committed before there was evidence calling for it. Not an easy kind of faith to bear.
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