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The Lion of Chaeronea

@lionofchaeronea / lionofchaeronea.tumblr.com

A blog dedicated to classical antiquity, poetry, and the visual arts. All translations of Greek and Latin are my own unless otherwise noted.
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Title: Saint Stephen Protomartyr (panel from the Pala Tornabuoni Triptych) Artist: Domenico Ghirlandaio (Italian, 1448-1494) Date: after 1490 Genre: religious art Period: Renaissance (Quattrocento) Medium: tempera on panel Dimensions: 191 cm (75.1 in) high x 56 cm (22 in) wide Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

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Title: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Protector of the University of Cuzco Artist: unknown Peruvian artist Date: ca. 1690-95 Genre: religious art Period: Baroque Movement: Cuzco School Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 161 cm (63.3 in) high x 117 cm (46 in) wide Location: Lima Art Museum, Lima, Peru

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Title: The Angel Appearing to Zacharias Artist: William Blake (English, 1757-1827) Date: 1799-1800 Genre: religious art Movement: English Romanticism Medium: pen and black ink, tempera, and glue size on canvas Dimensions: 26.7 cm (10.5 in) high x 38.1 cm (15 in) wide Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Title: The Immaculate Conception Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617-1682) Date: unknown Genre: religious art Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 198.1 cm (77.9 in) high x 134.6 cm (52.9 in) wide Location: Detroit Institute of Arts

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St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, secretly gives dowries to three poor girls. Miniature executed by a French artist known as the "Master of Jean Rolin II," for folio 84r of the Book of Hours commissioned by a court official named Simon de Varie and completed in 1455. Now in the KB National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.

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Title: The Fall of the Rebel Angels Artist: Sebastiano Ricci (Italian [Venetian], 1659-1734) Date: ca. 1720 Genre: religious art Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 82 cm (32.3 in) high x 68 cm (26.8 in) wide Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

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Title: The Mourning Mary Magdalene Artist: perhaps Colijn de Coter (Flemish, ca. 1440/45 - ca. 1522/32) -- attribution contested Date: ca. 1500 Genre: religious art Period: Early Netherlandish Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: 112.3 cm (44.2 in) high x 55.3 cm (21.7 in) wide Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

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Title: Christ Pantokrator (Ruler of All) Artist: Elias Moskos (Greek [Cretan], 1629-1687) Date: 1653 Genre: religious art; icon Movement: Cretan School Medium: egg tempera on wood Dimensions: 119 cm (46.8 in) high x 85 cm (33.4 in) wide Location: Icon Museum Recklinghausen, Germany

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Title: Saint Margaret Artist: Joan Reixach (Spanish [Catalan], ca. 1411 - 1486/92) Date: ca. 1456 Genre: religious art Medium: tempera, oil, and gold leaf on wood Dimensions: 123 cm (48.4 in) high x 65 cm (25.6 cm) wide Location: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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