“The story of the adulterous woman is taken from St. John’s Gospel in the New Testament. In the biblical text, a woman caught in the act of adultery has been brought to the Temple to be judged… Holding the hand of the accused, Jesus is seen here declaring to the scribes and Pharisees around him: ‘He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.’ The figure representing Jesus bears the tell-tale physical traits of one of Cranach’s northern German countrymen.” - National Gallery of Canada

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Lucas Cranach the Elder

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, c. 1535-1540

(Source: gallery.ca)

GOOSE ART TUESDAYS!!!

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Unknown artist

Goose Pilgrimage Badge, 16th century

GOOSE ART TUESDAYS!!!

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Unknown Indian artist

Sarasvatī mounted on a goose, c.1790-1810

“Oh hey, you uh, got a little something on your forehead.”

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Anne de Felbrigge (attributed)

Annunciation from the cover of the Felbrigge Psalter, 13th century

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Andrea della Robbia

Annunciation, c. 1490

hyperallergic:

Tourists Line Up to Visit Beast Jesus

This makes me so happy you have no idea.

I know as an art historian this should make me sad because someone painted over a historic painting but I just can’t stop looking at it. Its… its just so AWESOME like this.

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Elias Garcia Martinez

Ecce Homo, n.d.

Gaddi was a student of Giotto and he paints in a very similar style except he had an obsession with studying the effects of light. His work at the Baroncelli Chapel in Florence, where this scene is from, is his best known art.

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Taddeo Gaddi

Annunciation to the Shepherds, 1327-1330

Small ivory devotional altars like this were popular for those who could afford them throughout the medieval and early renaissance era. They acted as a sort of portable prayer station. This one here shows the popular International Gothic style, as evidenced in the gracefully curved figure of the Virgin, and still contains traces of the polychrome paint that would have originally coloured it.

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Unknown French artist

Tabernacle with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, 14th century

This will probably make me sound like a creep but I REALLY like the way Botticelli depicts eyelids. 

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Sandro Botticelli

Madonna of the Magnificat, 1480-1485