#ears of corn

[vestaignis]

Морозное утро. Фотограф Татьяна Кормашова. Россия (Владимир). Frosty morning. Photographer Tatiana Kormashova. Russia (Vladimir).

Источник: //35photo.pro/tatyana1922/photo_13161590/.

[margocooper]

Закатная тишина речной заводи. Сентябрь 23. Sunset silence of a river backwater. September 23.

[marinolta]

ears of corn - hanoi, vietnam 1995 

[akkifuar]

Мимолетный отблеск заката, прорвавшись сквозь низко висящее над западным горизонтом облако, упал на ее волосы, и на мгновение она показалась олицетворением духа ветра — со всей его тайной, всей его страстью, всем его неуловимым очарованием.

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Demeter Mourning for Persephone

Artist: Evelyn de Morgan (English, 1855-1919)

Date: 1906

Medium: OIl on canvas

Collection: The De Morgan Foundation, London

Description

Demeter was the Greek goddess of the earth, particularly the fruits of the fields, and as normal she is represented here as the corn-goddess. Her hair is covered with ears of corn, from which poppies drop around her. Her daughter, Persephone was kidnapped by Hades and taken beneath the earth to his kingdom. Inconsolable at the loss of her daughter, Demeter refused to allow the earth to be fruitful.

[mythologypaintings]

Venus Frigida

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

Date: 1614

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

Description

Painting depicting the goddess of love shivering in a harsh winter landscape, illustrating the classical saying, "Without Ceres (food) and Bacchus (wine), Venus (love) freezes". A desolate Venus, hunched for warmth, and a cold Cupid are shown amidst barren trees, with a satyr offering fruit but failing to warm them, symbolizing that love needs sustenance (food, drink, companionship) to flourish, not just passion.

[artandthebible]

King David In Prayer

Artist: Pieter de Grebber (Dutch, 1600-1652/1653)

Date: ca. 1635-1640

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, Netherlands

Description

The story of king David and the three plagues is told in 2 Samuel 24 and in 1 Chronicles 21. In the Chronicles it is Satan who pushes David to take a census. Joab, the captain of David’s army, attempts to change his king’s mind: why count people when the Lord adds a hundredfold? But David persists.

When the census is done, David is overcome by remorse for his act of vanity. He asks God to forgive him. God sends a messenger, the prophet Gad, to have David choose from three plagues.

In this painting by De Grebber, a painter from the Dutch town of Haarlem, Gad is not present. An angel holds the symbols of the plagues: a skull for three days of pestilence, a sword for three months of persecution by David’s enemies, and empty ears of corn for three (or seven) years of famine.

David picks the shortest punishment, one not by man: pestilence. 70,000 men died.

Next to David are his attributes: a crown and a harp.

[empirearchives]

Ceres-Diadem / Ears of Corn Tiara, France

Early 19th century

Featured in an exhibition at Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim about jewelry during the Napoleonic era: A Newly Ordered World – Treasures from the Napoleonic Era

Currently located at: Albion Art Collection, Tokyo

Napoleon Bonaparte reorganized the European world in many respects… Back then, the Neoclassical “style of the Revolution” and the decorative Empire style spread all over Western Europe well into Russia. The moral concepts developed during the Enlightenment called for an aesthetic inspired by reason, which met the taste of an increasingly powerful, self-confident and educated middle class, and influenced all areas of culture – starting from architecture, painting, furniture, garments and jewellery all the way through to literature and music. The visual arts were expected to lead to the emergence of an intellectual aristocracy to break with the tradition of hereditary aristocracy. Over the course of Napoleon’s imperial reign, the Empire style unfolded its representative splendour to perfection.