indeed interesting!Here is the carrying pick I was referring to. "Mary" has a resolute expression. "Jesus" looks befuddled. This in my opinion is a great picture.
Well, most of the apostles disappear after the Gospels too (meaning they aren't in Acts and don't have "letters" attributed to them--if I remember only John, Peter, Philip, and James the son of Zebedee appear in Acts), unless you count apocryphal gospels (Thomas, Philip, James, even Judas). These are late (meaning a century or two after the crucifixion). Mary Magdalene has a gospel all her own of this sort. Paul does say in his letters (which are only less than 30 years after the crucifixion) that the apostles, in addition to Peter and Jesus' brother James, were in Jerusalem when he went there with Barnabas maybe 18 or so years after his conversion. Apparently all this Jerusalem activity was wiped out when Titus took Jerusalem in AD 70, but by then Christianity had spread around the Empire and to Rome itself (Claudius in the 40's AD kicked at least one synagogue out of Rome because there were divisions and disturbances over someone called "Chrestus"). Most of what is known of most of the apostles is hearsay "tradition", but I wouldn't bet against Mary Magdalene being an active Christian with some influence.@Praetor, I wouldn’t call it offensive. It’s more like the kind of balls-out blasphemy that this recovering Catholic craves.
For instance, about 20 years ago the artist WelshWebb drew this Female Christ on the cross. And since Mary Magdalene disappears from the biblical record after the Gospels, I’ve always thought of this as what really happened to her, along with Martha and Mary of Bethany.
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So given that CF can be considered a den of impiety and iniquity, I feel the Virgin Mary is fair game.
Here is the carrying pick I was referring to. "Mary" has a resolute expression. "Jesus" looks befuddled. This in my opinion is a great picture.
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For instance, about 20 years ago the artist WelshWebb drew this Female Christ on the cross. And since Mary Magdalene disappears from the biblical record after the Gospels, I’ve always thought of this as what really happened to her, along with Martha and Mary of Bethany.
If you want to crucify a Magdalen, may I suggest Barbara Hershey, who play the role in "The Last Temptation of Christ"?
The story of the 'Three Marys' who fled to Gaul, is merely a legend, created during the Middle Ages in France, more than 1000 years later, rather than a historical hypothesis.For the alternative historians who say she fled to Gaul, well, there were Romans there too!
And the Holy Grale isn't in Scotland.The story of the 'Three Marys' who fled to Gaul, is merely a legend, created during the Middle Ages in France, more than 1000 years later, rather than a historical hypothesis.
And the Holy Grale isn't in Scotland.
The story of the 'Three Marys' who fled to Gaul, is merely a legend, created during the Middle Ages in France, more than 1000 years later, rather than a historical hypothesis.
Whoever did this manip of Rembrandt's "Lamentation over the body of Christ" definitely knew what they were about.there is a lot of art in that direction, eg maria+jesus, jesus+gf (if you think maria magdalena is his girl friend, i don't think, actually i guess it is the employ of maria), so one i stumbled over...
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Yes, you're right ! I even made a manip with the first'one, adding crucified Messa to the free cross ...I'm sure the pictures have been posted here, these are 2017 in my archive
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@Praetor, I wouldn’t call it offensive. It’s more like the kind of balls-out blasphemy that this recovering Catholic craves.
Barbara Hershey has a TV movie with David Niven (Intrepid) where she is tortured by the Germans in WW2. The villain is Michael York. I seem to recall there being a scene where you see her shadow being whipped reflected on a wall. I seem to recall something like that.Maia Morgenstern was 42 when she made Passion and she's Romanian/Jewish, so by age and ethnicity she is right for the part.
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If you want to crucify a Magdalen, may I suggest Barbara Hershey, who play the role in "The Last Temptation of Christ"?
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She's also Jewish on her father's side (Barbara Lynn Herzstein). Interestingly, she was 40 when she played the role.