Magi Under Virgo ~SOLD (Somebody liked this!)
12 in. x 12 in., acrylic on canvas
12 in. x 12 in., acrylic on canvas
$170 unframed
It's been a while since I've painted a supernaturalist piece. I only seem to be able to paint these spiritually symbolic images when they come to me, and I can't force them or simply produce one as an exercise. This year, before and during Epiphany, I felt greatly focused on the Magi's curious trek to seek out the Child who was the subject of Revelation 12: "And a great sign appeared in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth." According to Dr. Michael Heiser, in 3 B.C. a conjunction of Jupiter and Regulus appeared in Virgo during The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), which is a very possible date for the birth of Jesus. This piece puts the Magi, with their formidable entourage behind them in the distance, under the sign of Virgo, impregnated with a brilliant messianic nova. The hills are Judean, and the clothes they wear are reminiscent of the flesh tones of the nations, who are prefigured in them as they bow down to the the Child they have come from so far away to worship.
