#Antonio Zanchi

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Klovićevi Dvori Gallery Zagreb Croatia

Klovićevi Dvori Gallery Zagreb Croatia

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Allegoria dell'Amore puro (Allegory of Pure Love) (detail), Antonio Zanchi (Italian, 1631–1722)

[thetheoreticaljehovist]

For the purpose of organizing a slaughter: A sword has been sharpened, and it—it has been polished, in order to give it into the hand of a killer...

“Open up your doors, O Leb’a·non, that a fire may devour among your cedars. Howl, O juniper tree, for the cedar has fallen; because the majestic ones themselves have been despoiled! Howl, YOU massive trees of Ba’shan, for the impenetrable forest has come down! Listen! The howling of shepherds, for their majesty has been despoiled. Listen! The roaring of maned young lions, for the proud [thickets] along the Jordan have been despoiled.

“This is what Jehovah my God has said, ‘Shepherd the flock [meant] for the killing, the buyers of which proceed to kill [them] although they are not held guilty. And those who are selling them say: “May Jehovah be blessed, while I shall gain riches.” And their own shepherds do not show any compassion upon them.’

“‘For I shall show compassion no more upon the inhabitants of the land,’ is the utterance of Jehovah. ‘So here I am causing mankind to find themselves, each one in the hand of his companion and in the hand of his king; and they will certainly crush to pieces the land, and I shall do no delivering out of their hand.’”

And I proceeded to shepherd the flock [meant] for the killing, in YOUR behalf, O afflicted ones of the flock. So I took for myself two staffs. The one I called Pleasantness, and the other I called Union, and I went shepherding the flock. And I finally effaced three shepherds in one lunar month, as my soul gradually became impatient with them, and also their own soul felt a loathing toward me. At length I said: “I shall not keep shepherding YOU. The one that is dying, let her die. And the one that is being effaced, let her be effaced. And as for the ones left remaining, let them devour, each one the flesh of her companion.” So I took my staff Pleasantness and cut it to pieces, in order to break my covenant that I had concluded with all the peoples. And it came to be broken in that day, and the afflicted ones of the flock who were watching me got to know in this way that it was the word of Jehovah.

Then I said to them: “If it is good in YOUR eyes, give [me] my wages; but if not, refrain.” And they proceeded to pay my wages, thirty pieces of silver.

At that, Jehovah said to me: “Throw it to the treasury —the majestic value with which I have been valued from their standpoint.” Accordingly I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it into the treasury at the house of Jehovah.

Then I cut in pieces my second staff, the Union, in order to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. And Jehovah went on to say to me: “Take yet for yourself the implements of a useless shepherd. For here I am letting a shepherd rise up in the land. To the [sheep] being effaced he will give no attention. The young one he will not seek, and the broken [sheep] he will not heal. The one stationing herself he will not supply [with food], and the flesh of the fat one he will eat, and the hoofs of the [sheep] he will tear off. Woe to my valueless shepherd, who is leaving the flock! A sword will be upon his arm and upon his right eye. His own arm will without fail dry up, and his own right eye will without fail grow dim.”

A pronouncement: “The word of Jehovah concerning Israel,” is the utterance of Jehovah, the One who is stretching out [the] heavens and laying the foundation of [the] earth and forming the spirit of man inside him. “Here I am making Jerusalem a bowl [causing] reeling to all the peoples round about; and also against Judah he will come to be in the siege, [even] against Jerusalem. And it must occur in that day [that] I shall make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all the peoples. All those lifting it will without fail get severe scratches for themselves; and against her all the nations of the earth will certainly be gathered. In that day,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “I shall strike every horse with bewilderment and its rider with madness; and upon the house of Judah I shall open my eyes, and every horse of the peoples I shall strike with loss of sight. And the sheiks of Judah will have to say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a strength to me by Jehovah of armies their God.’ In that day I shall make the sheiks of Judah like a firepot among trees and like a fiery torch in a row of newly cut grain, and they must devour on the right [hand] and on the left all the peoples round about; and Jerusalem must yet be inhabited in her [own] place, in Jerusalem.

“And Jehovah will certainly save the tents of Judah first, to the end that the beauty of the house of David and the beauty of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not become too great over Judah. In that day Jehovah will be a defense around the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the one that is stumbling among them must become in that day like David, and the house of David like God, like Jehovah’s angel before them. And it must occur in that day [that] I shall seek to annihilate all the nations that are coming against Jerusalem.

“And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of favor and entreaties, and they will certainly look to the One whom they pierced through, and they will certainly wail over Him as in the wailing over an only [son]; and there will be a bitter lamentation over him as when there is bitter lamentation over the firstborn [son]. In that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be great, like the wailing of Ha·dad·rim’mon in the valley plain of Me·gid’do. And the land will certainly wail, each family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself, and their women by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their women by themselves; the family of the house of Le’vi by itself, and their women by themselves; the family of the Shim’e·ites by itself, and their women by themselves; all the families that are left remaining, each family by itself, and their women by themselves.

“In that day there will come to be a well opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for an abhorrent thing.

“And it must occur in that day,” is the utterance of Jehovah of armies, “[that] I shall cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will no more be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I shall cause to pass out of the land. And it must occur [that] in case a man should prophesy anymore, his father and his mother, the ones who caused his birth, must also say to him, ‘You will not live, because falsehood is what you have spoken in the name of Jehovah.’ And his father and his mother, the ones who caused his birth, must pierce him through because of his prophesying. 

“And it must occur in that day [that] the prophets will become ashamed, each one of his vision when he prophesies; and they will not wear an official garment of hair for the purpose of deceiving. And he will certainly say, ‘I am no prophet. I am a man cultivating [the] soil, because an earthling man himself acquired me from my youth on.’  And one must say to him, ‘What are these wounds [on your person] between your hands?’ And he will have to say, ‘Those with which I was struck in the house of my intense lovers.’”

“O sword, awake against my shepherd, even against the able-bodied man who is my associate,” is the utterance of Jehovah of armies. “Strike the shepherd, and let those of the flock be scattered; and I shall certainly turn my hand back upon those who are insignificant.”

“And it must occur in all the land,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “[that] two parts in it are what will be cut off [and] expire; and as for the third [part], it will be left remaining in it. And I shall certainly bring the third [part] through the fire; and I shall actually refine them as in the refining of silver, and examine them as in the examining of gold. It, for its part, will call upon my name, and I, for my part, will answer it. I will say, ‘It is my people,’ and it, in its turn, will say, ‘Jehovah is my God.’”

-Zechariah 11-13, NWT

I AM NO PROPHET: The Prophets Will Become Ashamed

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Antonio Zanchi - The Death of Lucretia.

[hkankizilay]

The fact:“for one or more social media gods, which we can easily say that they're competing with the Olympian gods, billions of people -including me- like Sisyphus who thinks that he has deceived death produce content to be liked" is proving we're in a tragicomic Ancient Greek play.

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224. Ájax

Ájax enfurecido e para que "ninguém possa derrotar Ájax, senão o próprio Ájax" puxa da espada e enterra-a no próprio peito.

(Antonio Zanchi - The Death of Ajax)

[artschoolglasses]

Ceres, by Antonio Zanchi, 1675, in the North Antechamber

Nymphenburg, Munich

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Antonio Zanchi (Italian, Este 1631 - 1722 Venezia), David and Goliath, oil on canvas, 156 x 170 cm. Private collection

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“Sisyphus”, c.1660-1665 by Antonio Zanchi (1631–1722). Italian Baroque painter. Mauritshuis Museum, The Haque.  oil on canvas

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Sisyphus, Antonio Zanchi, 1665, Mauritshuis Museum

https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_335.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

[deanmarywinchester]

authority, duty, work, and meaning in the face of death in the terror and the plague

the plague, camus | the terror, dan simmons | the plague | the terror, soo hugh & david kajganich | the myth of sisyphus, camus, & sisyphus, antonio zanchi | the terror, simmons | night watch, terry pratchett | the plague | the terror, hugh & kajganich

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Antonio Zanchi, Hercules and Cacus, 17th century

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Fetch The Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple// 6x02 Two and a Half Men// Sisyphus (1548) Titian// Sisyphus, Andrew Bird// 1x01 Pilot// Sisyphus (1920) Franz von Stuck// Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), Kate Bush// 2x02 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 2// Sisyphus (1660-65) Antonio Zanchi

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Antonio Zanchi, Sisyphus (detail), c. 1660 - 1665

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Dubrovnik's Fortresses

Dubrovnik’s Fortresses

Fortress of St. John – Dubrovnik Guide

Dubrovnik’s Old Town has endless treasures and yesterday I took a guided tour of the five major fortresses around its City Walls. I’ve been waiting for the right time to walk the wall and wanted to learn more about the city first. A walk around the wall takes about 2 hours, depending on stops.

There are four raised points along the wall – north tower, east…

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just discovered antonio zanchi i’m completely obsessed