05 works, Today, August 3rd, is Holy Salome's day, her story thru art #215

Followers of Martin Schongauer

Crucifixion, c. 1495−1500

Salome is one of the two leftmost women with a halo.

Oil on panel

197 cm × 700 cm (78 in × 280 in)

Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Buhl, Haut-Rhin

The Buhl Altarpiece (French: Retable de Buhl) is a late 15th-century, Gothic altarpiece of colossal dimensions now kept in the parish church Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Buhl in the Haut-Rhin département of France. It was painted by followers of Martin Schongauer, most probably for the convent of the Dominican sisters of Saint Catherine of Colmar, and moved to its present location in the early 19th century. It is classified as a Monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture 

Martin Schongauer (c. 1445, Colmar – 2 February 1491, Breisach), known in Italy as Bel Martino or Martino d'Anversa, was a German engraver and painter. He was the most important German printmaker before Albrecht Dürer.

Schongauer was born in about 1440 in Colmar, Alsace, probably the third of the four sons of Caspar Schongauer, a goldsmith from Augsburg who taught his son the art of engraving. Colmar is now in France but was then part of the Holy Roman Empire. He may well have been trained by Master E. S. The art historian A. Hyatt Mayor saw both their individual styles in different parts of a single engraving, and all the works with Schongauer's M†S monogram show a fully developed style. Schongauer established at Colmar a very important school of engraving, out of which grew the "Little Masters" of the succeeding generation, and a large group of Nuremberg artists. More on Martin Schongauer

Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome was the mother of the Apostles James and John, the wife of Zebedee, and the daughter of Joseph the Betrothed, who was a widower when he became betrothed to the Mother of God. She was a disciple of the Lord and one of the Myrrh-bearing women who first brought tidings of the Resurrection to the world. Salome was a follower of Jesus who appears briefly in the canonical gospels and in apocryphal writings. 

Unknown artist

Nativity with woman Salome (right) bathing child Jesus

Fresco

Dark Church, Open Air Museum, Goreme, Cappadocia
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Salome is the first, after the midwife, to bear witness to the Miraculous Birth and to recognize Jesus as the Christ, are circumstances that tend to connect her with Salome the disciple. By the High Middle Ages this Salome was often identified with Mary Salome in the West, and therefore regarded as the believing midwife. 

She is one of the women present at the crucifixion who also ministered to Jesus: "There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses; and Salome who also followed Him and ministered to Him when he was in Galilee. And many other women who followed Him to Jerusalem.

Unknown artist

The Myrrh-Bearing Women

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When all had abandoned Christ, these women – along with Joseph of Aramathea – went and risked their lives to take Christ from the Cross, to wrap Him in linen, and to lay Him in a new grave. And when all were hidden away in fear of the Jews and of the powers that be, it was this small group of women who risked everything

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov

The Myrrh-bearers. 1901

Oil on board

41 × 31.7 cm

N.A.Mishin, Moscow

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (May 1862, Ufa – 18 October 1942, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet painterHe was one of the first exponents of Symbolist art in Russia.

Nestrov,  in 1874, went to Moscow where he enrolled at the Voskresensky Realschule.


In 1877, his counselors suggested that he transfer to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1879, he began to participate in the school's exhibitions. Two years later, he entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He was disappointed at the teaching there and returned to Moscow.

While creating a series of historical paintings, he supported himself doing illustrations for magazines and books, including a collection of fairy tales by Pushkin. In 1885, he was awarded the title "Free Artist". 


His first major success came with his painting, "The Hermit" which was shown at the seventeenth exhibition of the Peredvizhniki in 1889. Nesterov took an extended trip to Austria, Germany, France and Italy. Upon returning, his painting, "The Vision to the Youth Bartholomew", the first in a series of works on the life of Saint Sergius, was shown at the eighteenth Peredvizhniki exhibition and also purchased by Tretyakov. This series would eventually include fifteen large canvases and occupy him for fifty years. More on Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov

In the Gospel of Mark, Salome is among the women who went to Jesus' tomb to anoint his body with spices. "And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him."

In the non-canonical Greek Gospel of the Egyptians (2nd century), Salome appears again as a disciple of Jesus. She asks him how long death would hold sway, and he says to her, "So long as women bring forth, for I come to end the works of the female." To this Salome replies, "Then I have done well in not bringing forth." It would appear from this text that there was an early tradition that Salome the disciple was childless, and possibly unmarried.

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 The two Marys arriving on a stormy day, with Sarah waiting for them

Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

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During the early persecution of Christians, around 40 AD, the “three Maries,” were expelled from Jerusalem. They were placed, together with Lazarus, Martha, Maximin and Sidon, on a boat without oars or supplies. Sarah, their servant, was left behind, but Salomé threw her coat onto the waters and the coat became a raft, allowing Sarah to board. The boat eventually landed near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in present-day France.

The three Maries settled in Camargue, where they taught the good news of Christ. They peacefully gave up their souls to the Lord, and their grave became a popular place of pilgrimage. More on  Salome

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