Maggie Moran | Hourly Rentals (Motel Open), 2023
Oil on canvas
24 x 30”
Maggie Moran | “Finders Keepers” (aka Girls Girls Girls), 2023
Oil on canvas
30” x 24”
Maggie Moran | Which Way to the Bar
oil on canvas
36 x 36 in
All three paintings are from her modern renaissance series...
Here's the original - "The Calling of Saint Matthew" by Caravaggio
Here's a post about Caravaggio who was an interesting & talented jerk. Probably best known for his painting of "Medusa"
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Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657-1747)
L'Annonciation, c.1690
Musée des beaux-arts d'Angers
"And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women” (Luke 1:26-28). -The Bible
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Francesco Solimena - Jakob Und Rahel Am Brunnen
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from Endymion
BY JOHN KEATS
A Poetic Romance
(excerpt)
BOOK I
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,
Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
'Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
All lovely tales that we have heard or read:
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.
𝑷𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: (Diana and) Endymion by Francesco Solimena, 1705
✧*̥˚ a moon goddess falling in love with a mortal and that same mortal embarking on a quest to unite with his beloved is my kind of trope. *̥˚✧
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Dogs in paintings #1
From Dido receiving Aeneas and Cupid disguised as Ascanius
by Francesco Solimena
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Francesco Solimena, Maria Vergine bambina con Sant'Anna e San Gioacchino (1675-80), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte.
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Francesco Solimena (IT, 1657 - 1747)
Diana and Endymion, 1705-10. Oil on canvas: 180 x 230 cm. Collection Walker Art Gallery [eucanthos’ edit]
In feminist theory, there is a concept known as the 'male gaze' which refers to female objectification in the visual arts repeatedly depicting women as vulnerable, desired, seductive and subjugated.
However, in Solimena's painting the elements of the male gaze are reversed.
Young and beautiful Endymion, spent his life in perpetual sleep. In some versions it was his own wish and in others Selene’s granted by Zeus (she visits her sleeping lover once every month when the new moon is not visible)
The mythological tale of Endymion is a confusing one, and not entirely clear whether all the myths relate to a single man, for Endymion was called a king, a shepherd, a hunter and an astronomer. The goddess’ identity is also blurred between Astarte, Artemis/Diana and the Moon.
Endymion's tale has resonated with people for millennia. It was taken up with vigor by Renaissance artists and the imagery of the Moon/Diana goddess visiting the eternal sleeping mortal has various executions (72 Paintings of Diana and Endymion archived in Wiki -last link-)
https://commons.mtholyoke.edu/arth310lankiewicz/sweet-dreams/selene-and-endymion/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Solimena_-_Diana_and_Endymion_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
https://www.theoi.com/Heros/Endymion.html
https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/endymion.html
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-male-gaze-the-myth-of-diana-and-endymion
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_of_Diana_and_Endymion)
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Francesco Solimena - Cacciata di Eliodoro dal Tempio (Napoli - Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo)
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