La Trinidad, La Virgen y Dos Santos - Luca Signorelli - Galería degli Uffizi, Florencia

The Trinity, the Virgin and Two Saints (La Trinidad, La Virgen y Dos Santos) 1510 Tempera on wood, 272 x 180 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The painting was commissioned to Luca Signorelli by the Confraternità della Trinità dei Pellegrini of Cortona and shows a compact, tightly constructed composition. The Virgin and Child represent the central axis around which the Archangels Michael and Gabriel and Sts Augustine and Athanasius are grouped. More rhetorical and at the same time archaising is the glory of cherubim surrounding the symbolic apparition of the crucified Christ and God the Almighty. La pintura fue encargada a Luca Signorelli por la Confraternita della Trinità dei Pellegrini de Cortona y muestra una compacta y bien construida composición. La Virgen y el Niño representan el eje central alrededor de la cual los Arcángeles Miguel y Gabriel y Santos Agustín y Atanasio se agrupan. Más retórico y arcaizante al mismo tiempo es la gloria de querubines que rodean la aparición simbólica de Cristo crucificado y Dios Todopoderoso.

ST. MICHAEL DRAWING by DANIEL MITSUI

"Here is something unlike anything I've drawn previously. This ink drawing (with gold leaf details) of St. Michael fighting the devil was commissioned by a priest of the Maryknoll Missionaries, an order with a long history of missionary activity in Japan. He asked whether I thought it possible to create an image of the archangel in the style of traditional Japanese art without the result being kitsch..."

Un trabajo hermoso sin duda, vean más de este magnífico artista en su sitio web:

http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/religious.html