Sujet

The Arts Being Introduced to Germany by Christianity, c1855. Creator: Philipp Veit.

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The Arts Being Introduced to Germany by Christianity, c1855. Alternative title: The introduction of the arts to Germany through Christianity. In the view of the Nazarene Philipp Veit, who was appointed director of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt in 1830, the art of the future should be based entirely on the Christian Middle Ages. Religion is represented by the pious female figure with glowing halo and cross. With reference to the Bible, she breathes life into the three sister arts Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the background and into Poetry, Music and Chivalry in the centre. Others observe the scene reverently as they wait to be converted by the sermon of St Boniface. An aged bard, symbolising the heathen cult, is bending low over his harp in the foreground. His position in the shadows and the broken strings of his instrument show that the end of his era has come. On the left are wheat sheaves and bunches of grapes symbolising the holy sacrament.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM26A23_057

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Droits gérés

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85.0Mo (4.6Mo) / 68.0cm x 31.3cm / 8030 x 3699 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany female women woman people male job man men hat music religious fruit German arts painting country religion virgin hats wheat art guy occupation clothes tools tool museum Pagan color harp conversion Christianity dress holy saint saints grapes Santa grape location century drawing musical instrument musical instruments gallery profession staff upset Bible clothing literature broken concept santo APPAREL grapevine miracle axe bishop watercolour stringed instrument art gallery crook bard mitre bishops convert Colour Bunch Of Grapes allegory elderly man laurel wreath converting 19th century miraculous grapevines allegorical allegorical figures Madonna allegorical figure crozier Eucharist Madonna and child nineteenth century paganism Virgin and Child artistic school crosier woodcutter woodman The Arts watercolour Allegory old man old men woodhewer Pastoral staff art centre Staedel Museum Stadel Museum woodsman converts paper walking staff Heritage Art Drawing Preparatory drawing bishop crook bishop's crook bishop's staff bunches of grapes bishop's mitre laurel crown 19th-century wheat sheaves clothing & dress fashion & clothing Miracle of the Host Philipp Veit Veit Philipp heathen pedum ink? Indian ink? graphite-clay mixture Städel Museum Stadelsches Kunstinstitut und Stadtische Galerie Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie Veit Philip Philip Veit Veit Philippe Philippe Veit