Last Seen Blogs
sun-undone
sof with an f
dv030-artworks
DaVinci030 Artworks
vampiredaytrader
god's favorite mitochondria
coldwellbankerswap
Coldwell Banker Swap
adventuresofalostprincess
The Adventures of a Lost Princess °o°
Photo
"Visitation", from Altarpiece of the Virgin (St Vaast Altarpiece) by Jacques Daret, c. 1435 (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)
0 notes
Text
Mary Virgin
How came, how came from out thy night
Mary, so much light
And so much gloom:
Who was thy bridegroom?
Thou callest, thou callest and thou hast forgot
That thou the same art not
Who came to me
In thy Virginity.
I am still so blossoming, so young.
How shall I go on tiptoe
From childhood to Annunciation
Through the dim twilight
Into thy Garden.
- 1918, Rainier Marie Rilke
0 notes
Text
“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.” Saint Maximilian Kolbe
0 notes
Photo
Petrus Christus Annunciation 1452 Wood, 86 x 55 cm Groeninge Museum, Bruges
0 notes
Photo
Fra Angelico - The Annunciation. Detail. 1430 - 1432
40K notes
·
View notes
Text
This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect
God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she
Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee.
Unto God’s will she brought devout respect,
Profound simplicity of intellect,
And supreme patience. From her mother’s knee
Faithful and hopeful; wise in charity;
Strong in grave peace; in pity circumspect.
So held she through her girlhood; as it were
An angel-water’d lily, that near God
Grows and is quiet. Till, one dawn at home,
She woke in her white bed, and had no fear
At all,—yet wept till sunshine, and felt aw’d:
Because the fulness of the time was come.
- Mary’s Girlhood (For a Picture), Dante Gabriel Rossetti
0 notes
Video
flickr
"Looking into eternity" - mosaic by Oksana Mas (15000 handpainted Easter eggs) by Frans Sellies
Via Flickr:
The virgin Mary made of 15.000 hand painted Easter Eggs, Kiev, Ukraine. By the artist Oksana Mas (Оксана Мась) original: 7 x 7 m location: St. Sophia cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine Unveiled on January 13th 2010. Oksana Mas creates installations, paintings and video art. She is a regular participant of the auctions of Sotheby’s and a participant at festivals such as London Frieze, Armory Show New York, Fiac (Paris), Art Basel Miami, Arco (Spain), Art Moscow, Art Dubai and Karlsruhe. In 2011 Oksana's work «Post-vs-Proto-Renaissance» was representing Ukraine on the 54th Venice Biennale. On June 20, 2012 artist's work «Altarpiece of Nations»—the ready fragments of the art-installation—was registered in the National registry of records of Ukraine
0 notes
Photo
Manuscript Illumination with the Birth of the Virgin in an Initial G, from a Gradual.
Don Silvestro de' Gherarducci (Italian, Florence 1339–1399 Florence)
ca. 1375
0 notes
Text
The threefold terror of love, a fallen flare
Through the hollow of an ear;
Wings beating about the room;
The terror of all terrors that I bore
The Heavens in my womb.
Had I not found content among the shows
Every common woman knows,
Chimney corner, garden walk,
Or rocky cistern where we tread the clothes
And gather all the talk?
What is this flesh I purchased with my pains,
This fallen star my milk sustains,
This love that makes my heart's blood stop
Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones
And bids my hair stand up?
-The Mother of God, W. B. Yeats
0 notes