The Three Marys at the Empty Sepulchre -- Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli) -- oil on canvas -- c.1684 -- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Seeing posts about Easter prompted me to post this Baciccio, with which I fell in love when it was displayed for a while at London's National Gallery many years ago.

Growing up in England, the language, images, sounds, and architecture of Christianity are inescapable, even though England has become a largely post-Christian, secularized society.

As somebody who is not a Christian, I have mixed feelings about this. I was going to post a long thread about these mixed feelings, but it's getting late so that thread will have to wait.

#Art #Baciccio #Painting #BaroqueArt #ItalianArt #Christianity #England

Prepare to be floored by a ceiling that’s more cultured than your bookshelf and more expensive than your car 🚗🎨👑🇭🇺

Read my post here: https://discovermyeurope.eu/a-ceiling-that-outshines-your-entire-house/

#baroqueart #HungarianHeritage #rococoluxury

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueVI/pages/162-frieze-with-cherubs/

Time for some cherubs and a putto or two! How many cherubs are there in the picture?

#Engraving of a frieze by Louis Tettelin (1615-1655).

Last one from this book for a while i think, although i just scanned (with #xsane) from Volume V in the same fabulous series...

#fobo #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #cherubs #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #baroqueArt #notAFountain