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#Art #ItalianArt #ByzantineArt The apse of the Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe (see yesterday's toot) up close.
#Art #ItalianArt #ByzantineArt Apse of the Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe, 549 CE. The top of the apse represents an eye, with the blue circle as the iris and a small face of Christ in the middle of the cross as a pupil.
Jonathan EmmesediThe 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
#Art #ItalianArt #RomanArt Another floor mosaic with geometric patterns, but with some random black tiles sprinkled in to unnerve the perfectionists
#Art #ItalianArt #RomanArt Geometric floor mosaic from what is today Via Arnaldo Guerrini 6 in Ravenna, 1st to 3rd century CE.
