Guercino (1591-1666) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1617 Oil on canvas, 176 x 208 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Historian Denis Mahon has masterfully shown that this painting and two other famous works by Guercino –Lot and…
Director: Cecil B. DeMille Producer: Cecil B. DeMille Screenplay: Fredric M. Frank, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Harold Lamb, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. Genre: Historical | Biblical | Drama Music: Victor Young, Ray Evans (song), Jay Livingston (song) Country: United States Language: English…
Director: Cecil B. DeMille Producer: Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon Screenplay: Æneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank Based on: Pillar of Fire by Joseph Holt Ingraham, On Eagle’s Wings by A. E. Southon, Prince of Egypt…
Director: William Wyler Producer: Sam Zimbalist Screenplay: Karl Tunberg Based on: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace Narrated by: Finlay Currie Genre: Epic | Historical | Biblical | Drama Music: Miklós Rózsa Country: United States Language: English…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Tower of Babel c.1568 Oil on panel, 59.9 x 74.6 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam In this famous painting Bruegel depicts the biblical story of man’s hubris and their desire to build a…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Procession to Calvary 1564 Oil on oak panel, 124.3 × 170.6 × 1 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower right: BRVEGEL. MD.LXIIII Bruegel continues the Netherlandish pictorial tradition reaching back to Jan van Eyck…
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Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David and Goliath) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 91.3 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Compared with the many other treatments of this well-known biblical episode, the scene depicted in the Prado picture is…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David with the Head of Goliath) c.1600–1601 Oil on poplar, 91.2 x 138.5 x 2.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Caravaggio succinctly summarizes the biblical story of David’s victorious battle against the giant Philistine general…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David with the Head of Goliath) 1606–1607 or 1609–1610 Oil on canvas, 125 x 101 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This painting was executed in Naples, where Caravaggio was in exile, following his flight from…