Sentences with phrase «flagellation of»

In the first work, demonic monstrosities resembling the animals from Bosch paintings claw and attack a silent penitent, while in the second, a host of half human half animal - like creatures from a circus gone awry clutter the foreground and obscure the image from Caravaggio's The Flagellation of Christ visible in the background.

Flagellation of Christ (1450s)(detail).

His best - known masterpiece Flagellation of Christ (1450 - 60), now in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino, reveals a keen interest in mathematics, perspective, and proportion.

The Flagellation of Christ By Piero Della Francesca.

Suggested paintings include: Bacchus and Ariadne (Titian), The Madonna of the Meadow (Giovanni Bellini), The Flagellation of Christ or Legend of the True Cross (both Piero Della Francesca), Guernica (Picasso) or Bathers at Asnières (Seurat).

The scale was based on Piero della Francesca's «Flagellation of Christ,» which is one of my favorite paintings, although I have never seen it in the flesh.

• Linear Perspective Example: Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca.

In the Duke's apartment — along with the wooden studiolo of Federico, and magnificent inlaid wood panels by Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano, and Baccio Pontelli — also the enigmatic Flagellation of Christ and the Madonna di Senigallia by Piero della Francesca, and the portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and his son Guidobaldo by Pedro Berruguete are on view.

Also, the image of the whipping Klansman reminds us of the figure whipping Christ in the left half of Piero's (della Francesca) small panel painting, 23 by 32 inches, «Flagellation of Christ» at the Galerie Nazionale della Marche, Urbino.

But with «St. Sebastian,» a blank - slate approach was unexpectedly easy, primarily because, for all the image's familiarity, I realized how different the painting looked, or rather felt, in the flesh... It's the painting's endearingly strange comedy — especially the bottom half of the body, which seems to flap away (and bring to mind the flagellation of St. Bartholomew)-- that rescues it from post-adolescent self - pity and actually, in an odd way, ennobles it, as if invested with an amused stoicism.»

Choice Provisions was co-founded by industry lifers Mike Roush and Alex Neuse in 2008 with the famous last words of «Running a video game studio can't be THAT hard...» So, as they longed for greater creative freedom, they tore off their corporate shackles in favor of the self - flagellation of trying to do everything on their own.

The first is Caravaggio's «The Flagellation of the Christ» and shows a chilling and private event; we are the only witnesses to the three men, half hidden by darkness, who force the Lord against a pillar, grabbing His hair and kicking Him as they prepare to beat Him, the cruelty in their faces contrasting with His own quiet dignity.

Not exact matches

Goodness, you need to go join Rainer Braendlein's self - flagellation workout session and work off some of that self - deprecation.

I am more troubled by those who try to turn the faith into one of constant sacrifice and of self flagellation all the time.

Such a way of doing theology must, of course, avoid the suggestion that sacred sorrow is at the center of faith, that self - flagellation by whatever sophisticated technique is to be encouraged.

To repent has nothing to do with self - flagellation or with bleeding ourselves of our self - esteem.

Because of that fact, it does not feel like «self - discipline»; and so we vaguely hope that some better situation may come along someday and repair everything, while all the while habit patterns are being ingrained — be they of self - flagellation or self - indulgence.

It took years and the near - breakup of the band before they learned that «self - righteousness, self - flagellation» could be as dangerous as sex and drugs.

In lay religiosity, confraternities dedicated to flagellation as the ultimate expression of Christian devotion excluded women.

What you * really * want is continuous public displays of religious flagellation by all Muslims on a continual basis because you want revenge, it just doesn't matter who you get it from.

Of course, you could take it to the max and join Rainer and Scotty's flagellation workshop --------------- I did lay down on a bed of nails oncOf course, you could take it to the max and join Rainer and Scotty's flagellation workshop --------------- I did lay down on a bed of nails oncof nails once.

In the modern world, there is widespread genital mutilation, self denial, self and group flagellation, ritual drownings and cannibalism, violent and dangrous rites of exorcism, denial of life saving medical care, — all in the name of the God of Abraham.

Yeah, I think I remember Luther being one of those self - flagellation guys.

Florida 26, Tennessee 20 (Sept. 16): Feleipe Franks's Hail Mary seemed to have an insurmountable clubhouse lead as the season's biggest heartbreaker, from the improbable arc of the deep ball that fell into Tyrie Cleveland's cradled arms behind Tennessee's shorthanded secondary to the self - flagellation defensive coordinator Bob Shoop subjected himself to in front of the media the next week.

It's most generous of you to give the hard working monks some time off but I would suggest double flagellation when they return — don't want them getting above their station

I suppose that's a form of self preservation, the psyche subliminally deciding that it's better to let go of football altogether and go be interested in something else than have to endure this perpetual self flagellation.

While pushing for more recognition and value of domestic work in our policies, Valenti illuminates how envisioning parenthood as a «job» breeds more perfectionism and self - flagellation among women.

The self - flagellation and blaming has been successfully kicked into overdrive thanks to the burgeoning marketability of Women's Insecurity.

Students, for example, can focus on the root of the stress (preparing for the test) and not the self - flagellation around what the stress might mean («I'm not smart enough»).

There are scenes of flagellation and in one clip, the film reportedly shows one man performing a sex act on another.

But there is a danger of self - flagellation.

Over time, that type of self - flagellation can lead to burn out, and keep you from reaching the goals you were pushing so hard to achieve in the first place.

Dr Bella Ellwood - Clayton, a sexual anthropologist and author of Sex Drive: in pursuit of female desire, says our self - scrutiny and flagellation reside within a warped paradigm.

Psychologists say that it is better to be of a higher opinion of yourself than there is in fact, than to consider yourself a complete nonentity and engage in constant self - flagellation.

And the shots of his literally rubbing himself raw, in self - flagellation, will break your heart.

And Haneke, as ever, tucks his usual tricks in the margins: an uncanny dream sequence provides an excuse for his trademark shock - horror; a last - act gesture of violence dresses the nihilism of The Piano Teacher's self - flagellation up as something superficially humane; and, to quote Fernando F. Croce, his style is «so not - a-hair-out-of-place suffocating that even a lost pigeon's flapping wings [seem] too immaculately choreographed.»

She joins a convent just as the Vatican II releases «reforms» that will modernize the church with Sunday mass in English and make self - flagellation a thing of the past.

The male - centric romantic comedy premise is standard stuff, as we've seen the jilted boyfriend go through bouts of self - flagellation too many times to count in the genre.

November 15, 2012 • There has been no dearth of post-election Republican self - flagellation.

Hopefully Deadpool's forceful, violent actions put an end to the self - flagellation Ryan Reynolds has eagerly endured in the name of Deadpool's meta credibility.

The cast is blue ribbon â $» Allison Janney, Ciarà ¡ n Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Lerner, Ally Sheedy, Charlotte Rampling and a very sharp Paul (Pee - wee Herman) Reubens â $» and Solondz» talent for depth - bomb comedy, the sort of delayed revelation that comes as a muffled detonation after you'd stopped listening for one, saves the enterprise from terminal self - flagellation.

The war hero fights as a form of self - flagellation, though he ends up ultimately inflicting his pain on everyone else and keeping it nestled within.

Reflection is certainly one of a teacher's greatest tools, but there's a line between that and obsessive self - flagellation.

What a waste of time, energy, and self - flagellation!

While scenes of self - flagellation, grief and crying in the streets may not be your idea of a good time to visit Iran, Ashura is a great insight into the country's deep connection with their religion and their heroes of the past.

For fans of self - flagellation, you'll be able to return to gaming's toughest current challenge in Dark Souls II, which we're assuming will be a multiplatform release.

The durational relationship between Howard's body and the canvases — a repetition of the same set of movements over the course of years — evokes the ritualized action of self - flagellation.

It can only be a matter of time before American Vogue launches a Marina - plan diet (honey, red wine and bouts of ritual self - flagellation, perhaps?).

Like perhaps everyone but the state of Florida, it was using the millennium as the occasion for self - examination — or maybe self - flagellation.

Mary's annunciation, or the flagellation, baptism, and resurrection of Christ; these are some of the narrated events that seamlessly merge with an art - historical framework of 15th century painting's perspectival studies of figures in space.