Vision of Saint Augustine
Vision of Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine, a bishop and doctor of the early Christian Church, was an important figure in the history of Christianity.
Saint Augustine wrote about topics like predestination and original sin. Some of his doctrines separate Western and Eastern Christianity.
Saint Augustine was born on 13 November 354, at Tagaste, in North Africa, and died in 28 August 430, at Hippo, where the Vandals were attacking the city.
Fra Filippo Lippi's Vision of Saint Augustine. 1450s-1460s.
Here is another painting of Saint Augustine with the child trying to scoop the water of the sea into a hole in the beach. When Saint Augustine tells him how impossible that would be, the child responds with a comparison to a mystery of Christianity. The child then disappears.
Botticelli Coronation of the Virgin
This painting is by Botticelli. It shows the Coronation of the Virgin with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome and Saint Eligius.
Saint Augustine and Saint Monica
After the French painter Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) exhibited this painting of Saint Augustine and his mother in 1846, he stopped exhibiting his art.
Saint Augustine had a pagan father and a Christian mother, the canonized Monica.
Botticelli Augustine
This painting of Saint Augustine working in his cell, by Sandro Botticelli (1490-1494) is tempera on panel, measuring 41 × 27 cm, and housed in the Uffizi gallery, in Florence. It may have been made for an Augustinian hermit of Santo Spirito.
Saint Augustine once saw St. Ambrose engaged in what was then a novelty: he was reading silently. Reading was done aloud, and in public. Saint Augustine practiced reading silently and alone until he became adept.
Saint Augustine was not a hermit although he is shown wearing such clothing under his bishop's robe.
Botticelli Augustine
In this fresco, Botticelli shows Saint Augustine in his cell meditating. The fresco may have been commissioned for Amerigo Vespucci's father.
Web Gallery of Art says in this scene Saint Augustine has just seen a vision of the death of Saint Jerome.
Saint Augustine swept down to rescue the young child before it fell.
This is a section of one of the 17 scenes from the life of Saint Augustine that Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1421 – 1497) was commissioned to paint as a fresco in the apsidal chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, in San Gimignano. This painting is in the first or lowest of the three rows of paintings.
As the Web Gallery of Art explains, Benozzo Gozzoli left Florence for the higher altitude of San Gimignano to try to escape the Plague.
This painting by Botticelli shows Saint Augustine talking with a child on the beach, who was trying to scoop the sea water into a hole. According to the Web Gallery of Art, the child tells the bishop that it's easier to spoon the sea into the hole than it is to explain the mystery of the Trinity. After speaking the child disappeared.
Saint Augustine, a bishop and doctor of the early Christian Church, was an important figure in the history of Christianity.
Saint Augustine wrote about topics like predestination and original sin. Some of his doctrines separate Western and Eastern Christianity.
Saint Augustine was born on 13 November 354, at Tagaste, in North Africa, and died in 28 August 430, at Hippo, where the Vandals were attacking the city.
Fra Filippo Lippi's Vision of Saint Augustine. 1450s-1460s.
Here is another painting of Saint Augustine with the child trying to scoop the water of the sea into a hole in the beach. When Saint Augustine tells him how impossible that would be, the child responds with a comparison to a mystery of Christianity. The child then disappears.
Botticelli Coronation of the Virgin
This painting is by Botticelli. It shows the Coronation of the Virgin with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome and Saint Eligius.
Saint Augustine and Saint Monica
After the French painter Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) exhibited this painting of Saint Augustine and his mother in 1846, he stopped exhibiting his art.
Saint Augustine had a pagan father and a Christian mother, the canonized Monica.
Botticelli Augustine
This painting of Saint Augustine working in his cell, by Sandro Botticelli (1490-1494) is tempera on panel, measuring 41 × 27 cm, and housed in the Uffizi gallery, in Florence. It may have been made for an Augustinian hermit of Santo Spirito.
Saint Augustine once saw St. Ambrose engaged in what was then a novelty: he was reading silently. Reading was done aloud, and in public. Saint Augustine practiced reading silently and alone until he became adept.
Saint Augustine was not a hermit although he is shown wearing such clothing under his bishop's robe.
Botticelli Augustine
In this fresco, Botticelli shows Saint Augustine in his cell meditating. The fresco may have been commissioned for Amerigo Vespucci's father.
Web Gallery of Art says in this scene Saint Augustine has just seen a vision of the death of Saint Jerome.
Saint Augustine swept down to rescue the young child before it fell.
This is a section of one of the 17 scenes from the life of Saint Augustine that Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1421 – 1497) was commissioned to paint as a fresco in the apsidal chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, in San Gimignano. This painting is in the first or lowest of the three rows of paintings.
As the Web Gallery of Art explains, Benozzo Gozzoli left Florence for the higher altitude of San Gimignano to try to escape the Plague.
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