Thursday, January 21, 2021

Magi Under Virgo - SOLD


 











Magi Under Virgo  ~SOLD (Somebody liked this!)
12 in. x 12 in., acrylic on canvas    

Prints of this piece are available at my online print shop:


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.

5 comments:

  1. Shawne, this piece is absolutely amazing, brilliantly beautiful, meaningful and inspiring! How I would love to see it in an exhibit for a wider audience to enjoy!

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  2. Where is your "Buy Now" button, Shawne? I want to click it! (Really. How do I pay you?)

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  3. I would love to see more of the "supernaturalist" art -- a fellow NHite. --John

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    1. Hello, John. Thank you for asking! I'm working on a different web site at the moment that will allow more category pages. However, if you would like to take a look at these on my INPRNT shop where I offer prints of them, you can see them at INPRNT.com/gallery/shawne
      The latest supernaturalist piece is up. :)

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