The Lord prepared Paul to teach the Gospel, and when Paul returned from the desert, after a short stay in Damascus, he went directly to Jerusalem where he met with Peter, our first pope, and some of the other Apostles, to receive Peter’s blessing before he started on his ministry. We believe art has the power to transform lives and to build understanding across cultures. Paul’s epistles to the churches that he established make up over one-fourth of the New Testament. Dear St. Paul, I wish I could say that I am content with weakness, mistreatment, distress, persecution, and difficulties, but that is not the case. Because Saul was a leader, he stood by and watched as those stoning Stephen laid their cloaks at his feet. Do you speak Renaissance? Pope Paul III commissioned the work for the chapel of his namesake. At some point he decided to start using his Roman name, Paul. This piece depicts the moment that Saul is converted to Christianity while on the road to Damascus. There is much we can learn from the conversion of St. Paul. We created Smarthistory to provide students around the world with the highest-quality educational resources for art and cultural heritage—for free. Fulton Sheen’s Advice for the End of 2020, Former Swiss Guard Serves a Feast for the Imagination in The Vatican Christmas Cookbook. © Copyright 2020 Catholic Exchange. All too often I complain at the least struggle or trial. Saint Luke’s recording of this story in his book of Acts is not merely an historical account.
After spending some time with the disciples of Christ in Damascus, God called Paul to Arabia where he spent at least two years or more in the desert. There was a disciple there named Ananias. Juan Martínez Montañés and Francisco Pacheco, Louis le Vau, André le Nôtre, and Charles le Brun, Château de Versailles, Claude Perrault, East façade of the Louvre, John Michael Wright, The Coronation Portrait of Charles II, Different Places: Japanese porcelain with English gilt-bronze mounts, The Formation of a French School: the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, The Age of Enlightenment, an introduction, Pierre-Alexandre Barthélémy Vignon, Church of La Madeleine, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, The Panthéon (Church of Ste-Geneviève), Paris, https://smarthistory.org/caravaggio-saul/. Caravaggio treated both themes with extreme austerity and simplicity. Amen. “Michelangelo, The Conversion of St. Paul,” Fordham Art History , accessed November 23, 2020, https://michelangelo.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/148. This is a trade that provided him with the finances he needed later in his life to travel and evangelize. Bernard van Orley and Pieter de Pannemaker, Boxwood pendant miniature in wood and feathers, Portraits of Elizabeth I: Fashioning the Virgin Queen, The conservator’s eye: a stained glass Adoration of the Magi, The Gallery of Francis I at Fontainebleau (and French Mannerism), Follower of Bernard Palissy, rustic platter, Fifteenth-century Spanish painting, an introduction, Tomb of Juan II of Castile and Isabel of Portugal, Treasure from Spain, lusterware as luxury. So, thinking that he was serving God, Saul became the worst enemy of Christians. At his circumcision, he was given the Hebrew name Saul. Cite this page as: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Caravaggio, Featured | Art that brings U.S. history to life, At-Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series.
In fact, Saul was a witness to the stoning of the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen. Then he rose and was baptized, and took food and was strengthened.” From that time forth, Saul went on to preach about Christ. St. Paul, known as the Apostle to the Gentiles, was born in the city of Tarsus, a Roman city, thereby giving him Roman citizenship.
This painting in very different … Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, Orsanmichele and Donatello's Saint Mark, Florence, Alberti, Façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Northern Italy: Venice, Ferrara, and the Marches, Devotional confraternities (scuole) in Renaissance Venice, Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius): inventor of the modern book, Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction, Nicola da Urbino, a dinner service for a duchess, An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the fifteenth century, Introduction to Fifteenth-century Flanders, Introduction to Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century, Northern Renaissance art under Burgundian rule, Biblical Storytelling: Illustrating a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Altarpiece, The question of pregnancy in Jan van Eyck’s, The Holy Thorn Reliquary of Jean, duc de Berry, An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the sixteenth century, Inventing “America” for Europe: Theodore de Bry, Johannes Stradanus and Theodoor Galle, "The Discovery of America". Because of Saul’s great zeal for Jewish law and traditions, he was very upset about his Jewish brethren who were following the New Way, as Christianity was first called. We never know how some small thing that we may say or do will affect another person. The account of what happened then is related in the book of Acts, chapter 9. The Lord said to him in a vision, ‘Ananias.’ And he said, ‘Here I am, Lord.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘Rise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus named Saul; for behold, he is praying. Help Smarthistory continue to make a difference, Help make art history relevant and engaging, Expanding the Renaissance: a new Smarthistory initiative. The seed that Stephen planted by his Christian forgiveness of his enemies helped in the conversion of St. Paul. But God had a plan for Saul, just as He does for each of us. The old hostler in the background seems not to notice, as his is preoccupied with the horse, and not focused on Paul. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
After spending some time with the disciples of Christ in Damascus, God called Paul to Arabia where he spent at least two years or more in the desert. There was a disciple there named Ananias. Juan Martínez Montañés and Francisco Pacheco, Louis le Vau, André le Nôtre, and Charles le Brun, Château de Versailles, Claude Perrault, East façade of the Louvre, John Michael Wright, The Coronation Portrait of Charles II, Different Places: Japanese porcelain with English gilt-bronze mounts, The Formation of a French School: the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, The Age of Enlightenment, an introduction, Pierre-Alexandre Barthélémy Vignon, Church of La Madeleine, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, The Panthéon (Church of Ste-Geneviève), Paris, https://smarthistory.org/caravaggio-saul/. Caravaggio treated both themes with extreme austerity and simplicity. Amen. “Michelangelo, The Conversion of St. Paul,” Fordham Art History , accessed November 23, 2020, https://michelangelo.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/148. This is a trade that provided him with the finances he needed later in his life to travel and evangelize. Bernard van Orley and Pieter de Pannemaker, Boxwood pendant miniature in wood and feathers, Portraits of Elizabeth I: Fashioning the Virgin Queen, The conservator’s eye: a stained glass Adoration of the Magi, The Gallery of Francis I at Fontainebleau (and French Mannerism), Follower of Bernard Palissy, rustic platter, Fifteenth-century Spanish painting, an introduction, Tomb of Juan II of Castile and Isabel of Portugal, Treasure from Spain, lusterware as luxury. So, thinking that he was serving God, Saul became the worst enemy of Christians. At his circumcision, he was given the Hebrew name Saul. Cite this page as: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Caravaggio, Featured | Art that brings U.S. history to life, At-Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series.
In fact, Saul was a witness to the stoning of the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen. Then he rose and was baptized, and took food and was strengthened.” From that time forth, Saul went on to preach about Christ. St. Paul, known as the Apostle to the Gentiles, was born in the city of Tarsus, a Roman city, thereby giving him Roman citizenship.
This painting in very different … Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, Orsanmichele and Donatello's Saint Mark, Florence, Alberti, Façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Northern Italy: Venice, Ferrara, and the Marches, Devotional confraternities (scuole) in Renaissance Venice, Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius): inventor of the modern book, Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction, Nicola da Urbino, a dinner service for a duchess, An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the fifteenth century, Introduction to Fifteenth-century Flanders, Introduction to Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century, Northern Renaissance art under Burgundian rule, Biblical Storytelling: Illustrating a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Altarpiece, The question of pregnancy in Jan van Eyck’s, The Holy Thorn Reliquary of Jean, duc de Berry, An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the sixteenth century, Inventing “America” for Europe: Theodore de Bry, Johannes Stradanus and Theodoor Galle, "The Discovery of America". Because of Saul’s great zeal for Jewish law and traditions, he was very upset about his Jewish brethren who were following the New Way, as Christianity was first called. We never know how some small thing that we may say or do will affect another person. The account of what happened then is related in the book of Acts, chapter 9. The Lord said to him in a vision, ‘Ananias.’ And he said, ‘Here I am, Lord.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘Rise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus named Saul; for behold, he is praying. Help Smarthistory continue to make a difference, Help make art history relevant and engaging, Expanding the Renaissance: a new Smarthistory initiative. The seed that Stephen planted by his Christian forgiveness of his enemies helped in the conversion of St. Paul. But God had a plan for Saul, just as He does for each of us. The old hostler in the background seems not to notice, as his is preoccupied with the horse, and not focused on Paul. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.