Giovanni Guida
Saint Caesarius of Terracina, c. 2015
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Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum
Giovanni Guida (born 1992) is an Italian artist, painter and illustrator. His pictorial works are made with the technique of grattage.
Giovanni Guida was born in Acerra but grew up in Cesa, Caserta. In 2015, he graduated with honors in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.
His painting is based on the dynamic value of the 'sign', with soft and sinuous lines that intertwine and intersect each other. For this method of work, he makes use of new tools, experimenting with common utensils and everyday objects, such as sponges, steel brushes, and small metal blocks.
On 1 May 2019, he won the competition "Faces of politics", organized by the Valenzi Foundation. More on Giovanni Guida
The story of martyrdom of Saint Caesarius is set in Terracina, a harbor town near Rome and Naples, under the pagan emperor Trajan.
Unknown artist
The Emperor Trajan
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Joseph Mallord William Turner,1775–1851
The Shipwreck, exhibited 1805
Oil paint on canvas
1705 × 2416 mm
The National Gallery, Central London
Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. More on Joseph Mallord William Turner
Caesarius, belonging to the ancient and illustrious gens Julia, after a shipwreck, arrived in Terracina to preach the Gospel to poor people.
Giovanni Guida
San Cesario deacon attends the sacrifice of the young Luciano (Pisco Montano), c. 2015
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In the background there is the "Pisco Montano", a rocky spur of 83 meters which constitutes a geological structure in itself as it is not incorporated into the Monte Sant'Angelo behind it, on whose summit the temple attributed to Jupiter Anxur dominates.
In this Roman city, each year on the first day of January, a ceremony of self-immolation took place to assure the health and salvation of the Empire. A young man was pampered with material delights and fulfilled in all his wishes for eight months; then he was obliged to mount on a richly harnessed horse, climb up to the summit of city's cliff and throw himself into the void, with the recalcitrant horse, to crash against the rocks and perish in the waves in honour of the god Apollo, as a propitiatory offering for the prosperity of the state and the emperors. The deacon Caesarius denounced this pagan custom and protested: "Alas for a state and emperors who persuade by tortures and are fattened on the outpouring of blood".
The priest of Apollo named Firminus had him arrested and taken before Leontius, the Roman consul of Campania. During the interrogation, he refused to sacrifice to the pagan god of the sun and light, and his prayers "caused" the temple of Apollo to collapse, killing the pagan Firminus. Caesarius was then locked up in jail and, after twenty-two months, he was taken to the Forum to be judged. He asked permission to pray: a radiant light blazed down on him, and the pagan consul Leontius was thereupon converted and sought baptism; he died shortly after.
The 1st of November of the year 107 A.D., Luxurius, governor of the city, tied Caesarius and Julian, the leader of a local Christian congregation, up together in a sack and flung them into the sea, from a cliff called "Pisco Montano".
Giovanni Guida
San Cesario deacon collapses the temple of Apollo, c. 2015
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The priest of Apollo named Firminus had him arrested and taken before Leontius, the Roman consul of Campania. During the interrogation, he refused to sacrifice to the pagan god of the sun and light, and his prayers "caused" the temple of Apollo to collapse, killing the pagan Firminus. Caesarius was then locked up in jail and, after twenty-two months, he was taken to the Forum to be judged. He asked permission to pray: a radiant light blazed down on him, and the pagan consul Leontius was thereupon converted and sought baptism; he died shortly after.
The 1st of November of the year 107 A.D., Luxurius, governor of the city, tied Caesarius and Julian, the leader of a local Christian congregation, up together in a sack and flung them into the sea, from a cliff called "Pisco Montano".
In this way the deacon Caesarius was martyred, although not before prophesying the death of Luxurius, bitten by a poisonous viper.
Giovanni Guida
Finding the body of St. Caesareus on the beach of Terracina , c. 2015
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Caesarius and Julian, on that same day, were thrown back onto the shore and were buried by Eusebius, a servant of God, near the town of Terracina. More on Saint Caesarius
Roman master around 125 BC Chr.
When Ulysses arrived at Pisco Montano, in Terracina
Landscape to the Odyssey, circa 60-40 BCE
Mural, fresco
Height: 150 cm (59 in)
Vatican Library
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