05 works, Today, November 13th, is Saint Manetha's day, her story illustrated #316

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Martyrs Antoninus, Nicephorus, Germanus, and Manetha

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Some servants of Christ's people, who in the stature of their bodies were only youths, but their soul was armed with the worship of God, both came of themselves, and when the governor was offering libations to idols in the midst of the city, suddenly rushed upon him, and called upon him to abandon his error, "For there is no other God but one, the Maker and Creator of all things;" and when they were asked by Governor Firmillian who they were, they confessed they were Christians. No sooner, then, were these words uttered than they received sentence of death, and so passed on easily and without delay to Him in whom they made their confession. The name of the first of them was Antoninus, and the second was called Zebinas, and the third's name was Germanus; and these things were done on the thirteenth of November.

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Antoninus, Nicephorus, Germany Caesarea, and Manetha, c. 985

Miniature Minology of Vasily II.

Vatican Library. Rome.

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With them was Manetha, a chaste and courageous maiden, who had been brought by force from Baishan, suffered insults and cruel tortures from the judge before she was condemned. 

But one of those who was set over the streets of the city was the originator of these evils. His name was Maxys, and he proved to all men that he was worse even than his name. 

Titian (Pieve di Cadore 1488/90 – Venezia 1576)

Saint Manetha stripped naked

The Penitent Magdalene, c. 1531-1535

Oil on canvas

85.8 x 69.5 cm

Pitti Palace

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, or Titian (1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. 

 

Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars", Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.

 

During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of tone are without precedent in the history of Western painting. More on Titian

This same blessed woman he stripped naked, and she was only left covered from the groin downwards, in order that he might indulge his lustful eyes in looking at the rest of her limbs; and he carried her about through the whole city, being tortured with straps.

Jean-Léon Gérôme, (1824–1904)

Afterwards took her before the tribunal of the governor

Phryne before the Areopagus, c. 1861

Oil on canvas.

Height: 80 cm (31.4 in); Width: 128 cm (50.3 in) .

Kunsthalle Hambur, Hamburg, Germany

Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period, and in addition to being a painter, he was also a teacher with a long list of students. More on Jean-Léon Gérôme

Afterwards took her before the tribunal of the governor, where with great boldness of speech she made the confession of her faith that she was a Christian; and there also displayed her courage and patience under every kind of torture; and was afterwards delivered over by the governor to be burnt with fire.

François Chifflart, (1825–1901)

Saint Manetha delivered to be burnt with fire

Jeanne d'Arc, c. 1901

Oil on canvas

73 x 60 cm

Private collection

François-Nicolas Chifflart (21 March 1825 – 19 March 1901) was a French painter, designer and engraver.

François began studying at the municipal school of design at an early age. In 1844, he entered the École des Beaux-arts and became a student of Léon Cogniet. He took third place in the competition for the Prix de Rome in 1850, then, the following year, was awarded first place.

Shortly after, he rebelled against the Academicism of the time, focusing more on designing and engraving. Later, he made the acquaintance of Victor Hugo and began a new career as an illustrator in 1867. He helped design illustrations for Hugo's Toilers of the Sea, and a new edition of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

He lost most of his clientele when he began to harshly criticize Napoleon III during the Franco-Prussian War, and sank into an oblivion from which he never fully recovered. He died in 1901 in Paris. More on François-Nicolas Chifflart

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10 works, Today, October 10th, is Saint Daniel and his Companions' day, their story illustrated #282

Licinio, Bernardino

The Martyrs of Marrakesch, Franciscan friars, c. 1524

Oil on canvas

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Polo, Venice, Italy

Bernardino Licinio; Born: 1489  - Death: 1549. Licinio was a painter during the Italian High Renaissance, creating portraits and religious works. He was born in Bergamo in the town of Lombardy. It is said that he may have trained in the studio of Giovanni Bellini (1430 -1516), a prominent Venetian painter of the Bellini family. Licinio stayed close to the artistic developments of the Venetian school of painting.

Licinio’s earlier painting style was much in the vein of other prominent High Renaissance artists of Venice. Giorgione was also said to have trained under Giovanni Bellini’s workshop. 

His later works took much more to the style of Titian (1485 – 1576), a leading Venetian painter of Italy’s Renaissance. These religious works give a highly symmetrical positioning of saints surrounding the Virgin Mary and Child.  More on Bernardino Licinio

Saint Daniel and Companions (died October 10, 1227) are venerated as martyrs by the Catholic Church. They were Friars Minor killed at Ceuta.

Jean-Léon Gérôme, (1824–1904)

Prayer in Cairo, c. 1865

Oil on panel

Height: 50 cm (19.6 in); Width: 81 cm (31.8 in)

Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period, and in addition to being a painter, he was also a teacher with a long list of students. More on Jean-Léon Gérôme

The martyrdom of St. Berard and his companions in 1219 had inflamed many of the religious of the Order of Friars Minor with the desire of preaching the Gospel in non-Christian lands; and in 1227, the year following St. Francis's death, six religious of Tuscany, Agnellus, Samuel, Donulus, Leo, Hugolinus, and Nicholas, petitioned Brother Elias of Cortona, then vicar-general of the Order, for permission to preach the Gospel to the Muslims of the Maghreb.

Unknown artist

Saint Daniel and Companions 

Wood, paint, paper, leather, varnish

Height: 6 Inches; Width: 5 Inches

Private collection

The six missionaries went first to Spain, where they were joined by Daniel, Minister Provincial of Calabria, who became their superior. They set sail from Spain and on 20 September reached the coast of Africa, landing at Ceuta. Saint Daniel and Companions resolved to preach in that large city. 

Wyck, Thomas (1616-77)

Middle East Trading in a Mediterranean Port, c. circa 1640

Medium oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Height: 81 cm (31.8 in); Width: 100 cm (39.3 in)

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Thomas Wijck (also Thomas Wijk, or Thomas Wyck; 1616–1677) was a Dutch painter of port views and genre paintings.

Wijck was born into an artist family and received his training from his father. He journeyed to Italy, presumably by 1640, the year in which a ‘Tommaso fiammingo, pittore’ (Thomas the Fleming, painter) is documented as residing in Rome in the Via della Fontanella. Although this evidence of his residence in Rome around this time has been questioned, a number of his pictures depict scenes in and around Rome which would indicate a visit to the city at some point. He also resided in the environs of Naples, where he executed many sketches which he subsequently worked up into drawings of coast views.

In 1642 Wijck returned to the northern Netherlands, where he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. In 1660 he was appointed Dean of the Haarlem Guild.

He went to England about the time of the Restoration and was much employed. He was followed there by his son and pupil Jan Wyck, who remained in Britain for the rest of his career and played an important role in the development of English sporting painting. Thomas Wyck was also the teacher of the Haarlem painter Jan van der Vaart, who later also immigrated to England.

He died in Haarlem in August 1677. More on Thomas Wijck

Before entering the city proper, they learned from Christian merchants that a strict order prohibited entrance to all Christians.

Braun and Hogenberg

Ceuta, called Seupta by the Portuguese

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They remained for a few days in a small village inhabited mostly by Christian merchants just beyond the walls of the Saracen city of Ceuta.

Eugène Delacroix, (1798–1863)

They were soon apprehended and brought before the sultan

Moulay Abd-er-Rahman, Sultan of Morocco, leaving his palace in Meknes, surrounded by his guard and his main officers, c. 1845

Oil on canvas

Height: 377 cm (12.3 ft); Width: 340 cm (11.1 ft)

Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

 

As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

 

Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.

 

However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." More on Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix

Finally, very early on Sunday morning, they entered the city, and immediately began to preach the Gospel and to denounce Islam. They were soon apprehended and brought before the sultan who, thinking that they were mad, ordered them to be cast into prison. Here they remained until the following Sunday when they were again brought before the sultan, who, by promises and threats, endeavored in vain to make them deny the Christian religion. 

They were all condemned to death. Each one approached Daniel, the superior, to ask his blessing and permission to die for Christ. They were all beheaded.

Lorenzetti, Ambrogio  (1290-1348)

Martyrdom-of-the-franciscans, c. 1330

Fresco

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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, (born c. 1285, Siena—died c. 1348), Italian artist who ranks in importance with the greatest of the Italian Sienese painters, Duccio and Simone Martini. He is also the younger brother of painter Pietro Lorenzetti. Only six documented works of Ambrogio, apparently covering a period of merely 13 years, have survived. 

It is not known who Ambrogio’s teacher was, but his early works indicate that he early received his main inspiration from the art of Duccio, his brother Pietro, and Giotto. Already his representations reveal a realistic individualism and an intense preoccupation with significant composition and form. His desire to depict spatial depth convincingly led him to an increasingly accurate rendering of space in his paintings and almost to one-point perspective in his last work, the Annunciation. With his profound interest in perspective and in Classical antiquity, Ambrogio anticipated the Renaissance.

The art of the Lorenzettis was widely imitated in Siena during the third quarter of the 14th century, and many works by close followers are still commonly attributed to one or the other brother. More on Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Unknown artist

Martyrdom of Saint Daniel Fasanella and companion martyrs, c. 18C

Oil on canvas

Terni, Umbria , Italy

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Sebastiano Santi

The transport of the body of St. Daniel
Frescoes of the ceiling

Church of Daniel of Padua in Padua

Sebastiano Santi (1788–1866) was an Italian painter, active both in oil and frescoes.

He was born in Murano and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice under Teodoro Matteini. His works are to be found in the Venetian churches. He painted the nave ceiling frescoes for the church of San Daniele, Padua.

We owe him the decoration of many churches in Veneto and Friuli, in particular the ceiling of the Church of Saint Daniel of Padua , where he produced three frescoes. Other works can be found in 'Church of San Michele Arcangelo in Cervignano del Friuli , Church of Santo Stefano in Ruda , Ognissanti Cathedral in Arzignano , Church of Santa Maria Santa Maria Nascente in Artegna , Church of Sant'Ulderico from Pavia di Udine , the church of SS. Biagio e Daniele from Grantorto, the Church of San Giovanni de Bessica. More on Sebastiano Santi 

St. Daniel and his companions were canonized by Leo X in 1516.

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