#green cloth

[portrait-paintings]

Lauriette Ashley

Artist: Erastus Salisbury Field (American, 1805–1900)

Date: c. 1828

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, United States

Sitter: Lauriette M. Ashley (American, 1803–1870)

[artandthebible]

King David

Artist: Guercino (Italian, 1591-1666)

Date: 1651

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

King David was a biblical warrior king and musician, who is credited with writing several Psalms in the Old Testament. Here, David is not young but not yet old. He looks at a tablet inscribed with a line from a Psalm: ‘Glorious things of thee are spoken, O City of God’.

[galleryofart]

Still Life with Books and Chinese Vase

Artist: Hendricus P. Bremmer (Dutch, 1871–1956)

Date: 1895

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Her Majesty’s Last Recruit

Artist: Mrs Lucy Frances Hayward (née Halloran) (1853-1946)

Date: 1901

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England

[allegorypaintings]

Truth, Time and History

Artist: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)

Date: c. 1804–1808

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Description

History sits nude on a rock in the front center of the painting, holding a white quill with an open book in her lap. Wrapped around her waist is a green cloth, and another book lies open at her feet.

Time appears behind History, to the right. He is an elderly, bearded man holding an hourglass. His face looks upward so that most of the details of his features are obscured from view. Time bears large, white wings that extend outward, off the canvas on the right and on the left, behind the body of the third figure, who he grips by the arm.

There are conflicting interpretations of the identity of the woman dressed in white on the left of the painting. Most often labeled Truth, she faces the viewer with her breasts partially exposed, holding a scepter in her left hand and a gray book in her right.

The background of the painting is light on the left behind Truth and dark on the right side surrounding Time.

[paintingsandhistory]

Galileo before the Holy Office at the Vatican

Artist: Joseph-Nicholas Robert Fleury (French, 1797-1890)

Date: 1847

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Description

The painting depicts the 1633 trial of astronomer Galileo Galilei, a landmark moment in the conflict between scientific discovery and religious dogma. The dramatizes the Inquisition's interrogation of Galileo for supporting heliocentrism - the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun - which was deemed heretical and contradicted Scripture.

[royalty-nobility]

King George VI

Artist: Meredith Frampton (British, 1894-1984)

Date: 1929

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

This portrait represents the future King George VI, grandfather of King Charles III, when he was Duke of York. It was commissioned to mark the duke’s presidency of Dr Barnardo’s Homes, a charity that continues to care for vulnerable children.

[tenth-sentence]

They came back with viols as big as themselves, and with Thorin's harp wrapped in a green cloth.

"The Hobbit" - J. R. R. Tolkien