JOURNEY IN RELIGIOUS PICTURES: HOLY FIGURES IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE LANDSCAPES (original) (raw)
2017, 7th GLOBAL ACADEMIC MEETING
Artists have portrayed the beauty and glory of nature since Antiquity. Renaissance and Baroque painters depicted religious episodes in impressive landscapes. The aim of this paper is to examine the sceneries which picturise the journey of a biblical figure or a saint. There are many stories in the bible which involve voyage either on the earth or from the earth towards the heaven. Noah, Hagar, Lot and Jacob can be accounted among the traveling personages in the Book of Genesis. Noah built an ark for himself, his family and the animals and they rode safely in the flood. Abraham sent Hagar and their son Ishmael into the wilderness of Beersheba. Lot, his wife and two daughters had to leave the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Jacob on his journey to Haran, stopped at night along the roadside and dreamed a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven. The Book of Exodus tells the journeys of Moses. He was put in a basket and left in Nile when he was a baby and later in his adult life he passed through the Red Sea with the children of Israel. Gospels describe several journeys of Virgin Mary and Jesus. Pictures entitled The Journey of the Magi, portray the rich caravan of three wise men coming from the East to see the newborn Jesus. An angel appeared to Joseph, the husband of Mary, and warned him to take the infant Jesus and flee into Egypt. Jesus walked on the sea of Galilee, when his disciples were waiting on the boat frightened. Jesus was led away to be crucified in the pictures called The Road to Calvary. According to the Gospels, Christ appeared several times to his disciples after the Resurrection. St. Luke tells how two of the disciples saw Jesus as they were walking on the road to the village of Emmaus. The Ascension of Jesus is his departure from earth into the presence of God. In the scenes called Assumption of Mary, Mary's soul leaves her body. Saint Christopher, his name meaning the Christ-bearer, is painted wading through the water with the Infant Christ on his shoulders.
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