Thursday, May 8, 2025

overflow

photo: mine
nyc
@2019
~
song here
psalm 23
~
deuteronomy 30:3-6
isaiah 54:5-6
:speaking to the nation of israel here in these verses (i think) but the ability of scripture to speak straight to the individual hearts of His children is wondrous and a precious gift:

Thursday, April 17, 2025

glory glory glory


helene schjerfbeck
finnish
1862-1946

félix vallotton
swiss/french
1865-1925
~
Immanuel's Land
'...i stand upon His merit, i know no other stand...'
anne ross cousin
1824-1906
british
~
romans 5:8

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

river of life


helene schjerfbeck
finnish
1862-1946
the seamstress, 1905
oil on canvas
37 1/2 x 33 inches
finnish national gallery

agnes goodsir
australian~lived in paris
1864-1939
woman reading, c. 1915
oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches
national gallery of victoria, melbourne
~
song here
john 7:38
revelation 22:1

Sunday, March 9, 2025

...who makes a way...

isaiah 43:16


félix vallotton
swiss/french
1865-1925
sunset, 1913
oil on canvas
private collection
~
song
john 12:32
~
exodus 13:21
job 23:10
proverbs 17:3

Sunday, February 16, 2025

unsearchable


emilio longoni
italian
1859-1932
alone, 1900
pastel on paper
private collection

antonio mancini
italian
1852-1930
the study, 1875
oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 26 inches
galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea
rome
~
romans 11:33

Sunday, February 2, 2025

addendum

 image addendum to previous post
from january 1, 2025

luca giordano
italian
1634-1705
shadrach, meshach and abednego
oil on canvas
24 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches
sotheby's
master paintings part ii
lot 460
new york
february 6, 2025
~
oil sketch for a fresco in naples
~
daniel 3:16-18 kjv
16 shadrach, meshach, and abednego, answered and said to the king, o nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
17 if it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, o king.
18 but if not, be it known unto thee, o king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~
note the most important and beautiful words here: but if not; proclaiming a fixed and firm faith and absolute obedience

Sunday, January 12, 2025

all of us

often
 restive and wayward


image one
edvard munch
burnished aquatint
~
image two
photo-mine
~
song here
~
isaiah 29:24
and
isaiah 25:8
revelation 21:4

Sunday, January 5, 2025

what we cannot see

...yet by faith...

abbott handerson thayer
american
1849-1921
angel (detail), 1887
oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 28 1/8 inches
smithsonian american art museum


yamamoto masao
japanese
1957-present
kawa=flow #1719, 2024
silver gelatin print, edition of 20
9 1/2 x 6 inches
jackson fine art
:looking a bit like a seraph/seraphim:
~
new
song here
:a song about women with brown eyes and jesus:
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑

another instructive and wise pauline epistle verse
colossians 3:2
as well as
psalm 118:8
2 peter 3:17-18

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

with you

proverbs 9:10

 


théodore géricault
french
1791-1824
study of a lion at rest
pen, pencil and brown ink and wash on paper laid down
3 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches ~so tiny
image from stephen ongpin fine art
~
rembrandt van rijn
dutch
1606-1669
study of a lion at rest, c. 1645-50
pen and brown ink and wash on paper
5 1/2 x 8 inches ~small as well
musée du louvre
:one of many rembrandt works on paper depicting lions:
some others
in the louvre
2 of note in the british museum, london
and another in the leiden collection, new york
~
in the room
'just go ask daniel if our God will bring you out
and he will testify
He shut the lion's mouth'
daniel 6:1-28

'go ask those hebrew boys
if He'll stick by your side
they will identify the fourth man in the fire'
daniel 3:1-30


three hebrew boys
:shadrach, meshach and abednego:
3rd century
fresco
catacombs of priscilla, rome

Thursday, December 19, 2024

rejoice & remember

1 john 2:17
1 corinthians 7:31 



josefa de ayala
portuguese
circa 1630-1684
the sacrificial lamb, c. 1670-84
oil on canvas
21 7/8 x 31 inches
the walters art museum
:born in spain; she here was certainly inspired by zurbarán:
~
leonardo da vinci
italian
1452-1519
saint john the baptist, c. 1508-19
oil on wood/panel
∽27 x 22 inches
musée du louvre
:thought to be his final painting:
~
romans 3:25
hebrews 10:10
~
song
old
beautiful savior
and
new
omemma

psalm 27:14
psalm 46:10
romans 8:28