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The Game of Life - by Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch

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Checkmate painted by Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch

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The Game Of Life - Moritz Retzsch, 1888.

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Have you heard of the painting “Checkmate” by Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch?

It’s a painting that depicts a man playing against the devil in chess, and it seems like the devil is winning and the king is trapped, but that’s actually not the case. A chess grandmaster who saw the painting pointed out that the man’s king piece has one more move. One that would turn the tides of the game completely in his favor and let him win against the devil.

Of course, there’s spiritual implications for this uwu✨ God always has the final say in victory. He’s promised us victory, and he is a man of his word.

When our circumstances say we’ve been defeated, God says he’s got another thing coming. Failure’s never final with King Jesus on our side!✨

So wait on him and rely on him, and he’ll bring victory for you and me uwu💕✨

“You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭119:114‬ ‭NIV‬‬

#christian #chess #checkmate #christian art #christian motivation #inspiration #inspirational quotes #art #my art #digital art #digital illustration #digital drawing

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Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch (1779-1857)

Die Schachspieler, oil on panel, 12 x 15.3/8in. (32.3 x 39cm.)..

It’s not over until you win...You always have one more move...

#Die Schachspieler #art #beauty #photography #vintage #black and white #60s style #the paradigm web #painting #abstraction #nude figure #film #lingerie #abstractpainting

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Top Image: Faust und Mephisto beim Schachspiel / Faust and Mephisto Playing Chess [19th century] Artist: Anonymous

Bottom Image: Die Schachspieler / The Chessplayers [1831] Artist: Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch

#arts #illustration #classicism #faust #mephisto #goethe #chessplayers #art and literature #friedrich august moritz retzsch #moritz retzsch

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Moritz Retzsch (1779-1857) - Die Schachspieler (1831)

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Moritz Retzsch. Faust and the Spaniel

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Moritz Retzsch - Lenore, 1840.

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Moritz Retzsch (1779-1857), ''Outlines to Buerger's Ballads'', 1840 Source

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Faust and Mephisto

Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch

oil on canvas, 19th century

#Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch #art #artist #painter #Faust and Mephisto #chess #let’s make a deal #19th century #oil on canvas #painting

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Girl Checking a Spirited Horse, Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, 19th century, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall Size: 26.7 x 21.3 cm (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.) Medium: Graphite heightened with white on brown paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/312425

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Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch German (1779 - 1857) 

Girl Checking a Spirited Horse

#Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch #girl #horse #mine #german #art

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10/12/2021 | ARTIST RESEARCH

Chess in art has appeared in painted pieces going back hundreds of years ago. With this post I intend to document several of my favorite pieces regarding the topic.

-Saint Augustine and Alypius Receiving Ponticianus

by Niccolò di Pietro, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, 1413-1415

This piece is one of the oldest I could find and it illustrates the conversion of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of Hippo Regius, situatied in Roman North Africa and who's writing inspired western philosophy and western Christianity. The conversion illustrated occured in 386

Artist unknown, 15th Century History of Renaud de Montauban, 1468-1470

Renaud de Montauban was a fictional hero who was introduced to literature in a 12th century old french story called "The Four Songs of Duke Aymon"

In an early part of the story, Duke Aymon took his four sons - Renaud, Richard, Alard and Guiscard - to Charlemagne, to be presented during a Pentecostal feast. Renaud quarrels with Bertolais, a nephew of Charlemagne, over a game of chess, and kills him. The four brothers flee, and their struggle with Charlemagne begins, ending only when Renaud agrees to join the Crusades.

more about this story and chess depictions can be seen here: https://www.chess.com/blog/introuble2/from-widukind-the-saxon-to-girard-de-roussillon-carolingian-cycle-maybe-an-early-modern-queen

Francesco di Castellvi vs Narciso Vinyoles

Illustration from "Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess" inspired by the sermons of Jacobus de Cessolis

This Illustration shows us what is commonly known as "The game of chess ever recorded" which occured in 1475

The chess match can be watched here: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259987

Moritz Retzsch, Die Schachspieler (The Chess Players),1825

Read as an allegory of the Devil's battle for a man's soul. The position of the chessboard is placed squarely on the lid of a sarcophagus, leaves the spectator in no doubt as to this particular endgame.

The two principal protagonists in this drama face one another across the board. Satan, resplendent in his red cape and a red-feathered cap, stares across at Man, whose soft, classical features are buried deep in a troubled contemplation. Man is watched over by his guardian angel. Her dark expression, however, hints that no intervention is planned and Satan's seat - his throne - boasts the sinister decoration of a fierce, snarling lion's head.

William James Topley, Mrs. Grace Ritchie [as "Chess"], 1876.

Finally, This photograph of Mrs. Grace Ritchie in Costume is currently on loan from Library and Archives Canada. It is a fun and fabulous souvenir of the fancy-dress costume balls that were popular with the Victorian gentry of Canada at the time.

In the photograph Mrs. Ritchie’s floor-sweeping dress is a chess-board pattern of white and black squares, as are the long cuffs that stick out from her dark cloak. Around her head is a crown made of chess pieces. She looks every inch the dominant queen.

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Chess Players, Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, 1831, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray Size: sheet: 22 x 28 cm (8 11/16 x 11 in.) image: 19.1 x 22.1 cm (7 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.) Medium: Etching on cream wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/278210

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Schiller's "Lied von der Glocke" ("Lied von der Glocke"), outlined in 1837 by Cotta. With 43 sheets, it is the most extensive series of illustrations by Moritz Retzsch

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