Mid-Morning Art Thread

La Vierge adorant l'hostie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2025 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

2 Beautiful. Fine choice, CBD.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2025 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

3 Ohhhh... playing with fire, they're going to wet the bed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

4 "The Virgin adoring the host"

Thanks, CBD.
We need beauty today.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2025 09:32 AM (GbwPZ)

5 Nice colors.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2025 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

6 Really nice picture, I love the frame too.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2025 09:32 AM (0nHVk)

7 I chose this in part because I don't think I have ever seen the "Host" in a painting!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 09:33 AM (L5An7)

8 FIRST ... ! Wait ... no, yes?

Posted by: Dr_No at August 28, 2025 09:33 AM (ayRl+)

9 So very Catholic.

Love it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

10 Are those supposed to be angels on either side of her?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2025 09:34 AM (ExV1e)

11 "Private Joker, do you believe in the Virgin Mary?"

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 28, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)

12 Hmm ... What did Ingres anticipate? Seems odd that her fingers look so 'AI'-ish ...

Posted by: Dr_No at August 28, 2025 09:35 AM (ayRl+)

13 This is the style of painting I think of as art, not that van gogh shit from the other day that should be stuck on a fridge with a fridge magnet and signed "tommy, grade 1" written in crayon on the bottom.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2025 09:36 AM (snZF9)

14 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of death.

Amen

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 28, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)

15 I do not understand the physics of the incense censer on the left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:36 AM (GBKbO)

16 I chose this in part because I don't think I have ever seen the "Host" in a painting!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 09:33 AM (L5An7)

I don't recall seeing it in other religious paintings.

Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

17
Lovely. Art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 09:37 AM (kkTda)

18 >>This small, jewel-like devotional painting was made as a gift for Ingres’s friend Louise Marcotte, who introduced the artist to Delphine Ramel, whom he married in 1852. The Raphaelesque composition is based on one Ingres first painted in 1841 for the future czar Alexander II, which includes the two patron saints of Russia, Alexander Nevsky and Nicholas (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). For this version, Ingres replaced the Russian saints with two French ones. He would go on to paint four more variants, as well as, in 1855, a watercolor for Madame Ingres herself (Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass.). (MET)

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2025 09:38 AM (GbwPZ)

19 This is beautiful, CBD!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 28, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

20 I chose this in part because I don't think I have ever seen the "Host" in a painting!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 09:33 AM (L5An7)

The Mass of Saint Giles has it also. https://tinyurl.com/mvyxpmbh

This piece is better. IMO.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2025 09:38 AM (ExV1e)

21 Almost too perfect. Beautiful.

Posted by: Tuna at August 28, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

22 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Robin Westman at August 28, 2025 09:39 AM (JCZqz)

23 Ingres is one of my favorites. Loved his work since I was a kid. They have some fine examples at the Frick Collection in Manhattan, including the exquisite Comtesse d'Hausonville.

The Frick is one of the treasures we simply *must* evacuate before sealing and blockading the city.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2025 09:39 AM (Bdwy2)

24
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 09:39 AM (kkTda)

25 Looks like a picky homeowner dealing with her interior designer, unsure of the placement of the candlesticks.

Posted by: red speck at August 28, 2025 09:40 AM (0Id0S)

26 I do not understand the physics of the incense censer on the left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:36 AM

Small charcoal disk in bottom. Little incense nuggets on burning charcoal. Perforated lid of the censer seems to be down, with smoke rising through holes. Is Science.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

27 Nice play between different elements of perfect divine symmetry and asymmetry in imperfect humanity.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 28, 2025 09:40 AM (cduTK)

28 26 I do not understand the physics of the incense censer on the left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:36 AM

Small charcoal disk in bottom. Little incense nuggets on burning charcoal. Perforated lid of the censer seems to be down, with smoke rising through holes. Is Science.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

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Well, that, yes.

But the motion as displayed in the image.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:40 AM (GBKbO)

29 This painting should be censered! Papist Propaganda, pure and simple.

I will leave these tracts over here on the table.

Posted by: Jack Chick at August 28, 2025 09:41 AM (G5+As)

30 Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 09:39 AM (kkTda)

Hey, be careful, there's a mayor saying that is no good.

Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2025 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)

31 100 comment rule

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 28, 2025 09:41 AM (ufFY8)

32 Angel is holding the censer's chain too far down, and the censer is too far in the air.

Theory: the chain broke, and the censer has begun a most unfortunate flight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:41 AM (GBKbO)

33 Very appropriate after what occurred yesterday. Beautiful, would hang.
Thc CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2025 09:41 AM (rRoxM)

34
Hey, be careful, there's a mayor saying that is no good.
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2025 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)

I will leave my reply until after we get past 100.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 09:42 AM (kkTda)

35 When I saw "Ingres" mentioned in a comment, I thought immediately of the database software product.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2025 09:42 AM (omVj0)

36
Nice right turn from yesterday's nudity and depravity.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2025 09:43 AM (Y8DZL)

37 I wish I were religious enough to appreciate this. But I think God might crack a rib laughing at me. In any case, the art is pleasant to look at. Okay.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 28, 2025 09:43 AM (AOsQT)

38 Wheels within wheels. Circles within circles. Imma dizzy.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 28, 2025 09:44 AM (c711F)

39 Here's another version by the same artist-

https://tinyurl.com/5n86hm8f

Posted by: redridinghood at August 28, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

40 Well, that, yes.

But the motion as displayed in the image.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:40 AM

Could be holding the chains close to the top, censer in mid-swing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2025 09:44 AM (kgE5c)

41 40 Well, that, yes.

But the motion as displayed in the image.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:40 AM

Could be holding the chains close to the top, censer in mid-swing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2025 09:44 AM (kgE5c)

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Bruh is not demonstrating sufficient wrist strength to make a motion so dramatic.

Totally sus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:46 AM (GBKbO)

42 I think those are angels.
I see thin halos.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 28, 2025 09:46 AM (ufFY8)

43 This reminds me of Herb Albert's Whipped Cream and Other Delights album cover.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 28, 2025 09:46 AM (c711F)

44 Nicely detailed
No impressionist could hold a candle to this

Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2025 09:46 AM (3NfiW)

45
Bruh is not demonstrating sufficient wrist strength to make a motion so dramatic.

Totally sus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 09:46 AM (GBKbO)

Needs remedial altar boy training.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 09:47 AM (kkTda)

46
Comtesse d'Hausonville:

https://tinyurl.com/4vw6wubx

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2025 09:49 AM (Bdwy2)

47 Needs remedial altar boy training.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 09:47 AM (kkTda)

Altar angel training.
Should know better, probably sneaked off to drink the wine during that lesson.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 28, 2025 09:49 AM (ufFY8)

48 A stunningly beautiful piece of art. Would definitely treat it as an object worthy of veneration.

Great choice, CBD.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2025 09:49 AM (u82oZ)

49 A different take on Mary after Christ's crucifixion. Usually shown in grief, here she is realizing, in peace and with calm regard, that her son is not dead but lives in her and everyone. The host is the brightest part of the scene, pure and perfect. Her face and posture is natural even though idealized. The angels, with their hint of a halo, are setting up the alter. Even the string of flowers behind Mary, in the shadow, are blooming, full of life. Everything is calm, positive and points to living, not death. Remarkable. It makes me want to go to mass to share the feelings in the painting.

I don't recall any other painting that portrays the host in any way, let alone as the center.

Posted by: JTB at August 28, 2025 09:50 AM (yTvNw)

50 Very appropriate after what occurred yesterday. Beautiful, would hang.
Thc CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2025 09:41 AM (rRoxM)
******
I was thinking the same thing.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 28, 2025 09:50 AM (NpAcC)

51 Needs remedial altar boy training.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 09:47 AM (kkTda)

Altar angel training.
Should know better, probably sneaked off to drink the wine during that lesson.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 28, 2025 09:49 AM

When they should have been making a giant incense ball, sufficient to extinguish the charcoal.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2025 09:50 AM (kgE5c)

52 I solved it:

The angel at the tabernacle with the censer.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 28, 2025 09:50 AM (ufFY8)

53 37 I wish I were religious enough to appreciate this. But I think God might crack a rib laughing at me. In any case, the art is pleasant to look at. Okay.
Posted by: Don Black

God would not laugh. He would celebrate and welcome you. No matter what you have done or said or thought. Thing is, you can be as private about it as you want. You’re judging yourself. No one else is.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)

54 The thing I remember from my last visit to the Frick was when we left, my buddy's car had been towed by the cops. So that was fun.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2025 09:54 AM (RIvkX)

55 Small charcoal disk in bottom. Little incense nuggets on burning charcoal. Perforated lid of the censer seems to be down, with smoke rising through holes. Is Science.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

It’s not a matter of where he grips it. It’s a simple matter of weight ratios.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2025 09:54 AM (mT+6a)

56 Ditto on the Beautiful hot take.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at August 28, 2025 09:54 AM (6qf1m)

57 It’s not a matter of where he grips it. It’s a simple matter of weight ratios.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2025 09:54 AM

They could carry it between them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2025 09:55 AM (kgE5c)

58 By the shape it's ready-made for placement on a Special Edition Bradford Exchange Collector's Plate rimmed in genuine 14-karat gold leaf.

Sales could exceed those of the record-breaking Wizard of Oz series.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 09:57 AM (hY4dx)

59 Ingres' Wiki page shows many of his paintings, both historical and modern portraits. It's worth the time to look. I was surprised at how realistic and undramatic the modern portraits are. Just straight natural portraits including the imperfections.

His sketches, just pencil or similar, are excellent and show just how effectively even simple mediums can used both in themselves and in developing a grander final image.

CBD, Thanks for today's choice. Wonderful on many levels.

Posted by: JTB at August 28, 2025 09:57 AM (yTvNw)

60 What's with the crystal ball? Can't check out the title since I don't read or speak whatever language that is.

Nice painting though.

And to YD... Thanks for that link. That painting is lovely!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 28, 2025 09:59 AM (2J/Lj)

61 Nice right turn from yesterday's nudity and depravity.

"Los Morons adore the hotties", if I remember correctly.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2025 10:00 AM (hcEyG)

62 nurse ratched

Well played. Another example of why this place is so special.

The power of God should make transportation an easy matter. Like Ezekiel. This painting points that out.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2025 10:00 AM (u82oZ)

63 Lovely painting. I do like the ornate gold framing.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at August 28, 2025 10:00 AM (DJ7uY)

64 Mary, very calm, very reflective, very much at peace.

I like this a lot.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2025 10:05 AM (iJfKG)

65 Tangential:

One of the not small reasons I love Rome is that the city is chock full of churches, and those churches are all full of art like this.

Just, turn a corner, there will be a church that's been standing there for 300 years at least, and it's got Renaissance masterworks lining every wall of every chapel, most of it completely ignored by people who even wander in to look.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

66 G. Gordon Liddy was an altar boy as a child and told the story of whipping the censer around behind the priest until it was glowing red and throwing out smoke.

Posted by: Stacked and Packed at August 28, 2025 10:06 AM (G5+As)

67 66 G. Gordon Liddy was an altar boy as a child and told the story of whipping the censer around behind the priest until it was glowing red and throwing out smoke.
Posted by: Stacked and Packed at August 28, 2025 10:06 AM (G5+As)

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I used a censer a few times when I was an altar boy.

Never did that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

68 Ingres' Wiki page shows many of his paintings, both historical and modern portraits. It's worth the time to look. ... Just straight natural portraits including the imperfections.

His portraits are very interesting. You're looking at real people. I'd be tempted to ask him, though, if I were sitting for him, could I double your fee to skip the imperfections?

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2025 10:08 AM (hcEyG)

69 I used a censer a few times when I was an altar boy.

Never did that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

Are you now consumed with regret?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2025 10:08 AM (ExV1e)

70
God would not laugh. He would celebrate and welcome you. No matter what you have done or said or thought.

_________

I ask for the conversion of sinners and unbelievers every time I say my Rosary. So nobody's laughing, we're pulling for you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:08 AM (kkTda)

71 69 I used a censer a few times when I was an altar boy.

Never did that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

Are you now consumed with regret?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2025 10:08 AM (ExV1e)

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Consumed is the wrong word.

Racked with. Overcome with. Fallen into a pit of despair over.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

72 would hang

Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2025 10:10 AM (aBgBM)

73 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Corona_Exile at August 28, 2025 10:10 AM (UOUd3)

74 I think Ol' G Gordon was probably exaggerating.

I carried the censer as an altar boy and it would've been pretty much impossible to do that during Mass if ever at all.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2025 10:11 AM (iJfKG)

75 7 I chose this in part because I don't think I have ever seen the "Host" in a painting!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 09:33 AM (L5An7)

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Trust us, it's easier than drawing a hand.

Posted by: AI at August 28, 2025 10:11 AM (hY4dx)

76 She looks very English. No offense intended to les Francais.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2025 10:11 AM (36PRH)

77 I was never trusted with swinging the censor, but I did burn a few poinsettias by accident in my day…

Posted by: Corona_Exile at August 28, 2025 10:11 AM (UOUd3)

78 76 She looks very English. No offense intended to les Francais.

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I don't think Mary was French or English, biblically speaking.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:12 AM (hY4dx)

79 Consumed is the wrong word.

Racked with. Overcome with. Fallen into a pit of despair over.
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You missed tormented.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 28, 2025 10:12 AM (c711F)

80 So, it appears that this is hanging in the Louvre.

CBD, did you see it in person and decide to use it on the thread?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

81 79 Consumed is the wrong word.

Racked with. Overcome with. Fallen into a pit of despair over.
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You missed tormented.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 28, 2025 10:12 AM (c711F)

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Whoa, now.

Let's not go overboard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

82 I've learned more about religion and Catholicism from these Art Threads than I did (or at least remember) from attending Catechism classes as a young boy.

[In the painting The Virgin Adoring the Host by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the "host" refers to the Eucharistic bread, symbolizing the body of Christ.

It is depicted as a silver coin placed on a golden candle stand, which the Virgin Mary is adoring with rapt attention.

The painting uses this central object to represent the sacred presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, a core element of Catholic belief.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Muslim Commie Momscrawny 2028: Free Weights for Every Cuck! at August 28, 2025 10:13 AM (xvXg6)

83 "But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart."

Posted by: Luke 2:19 at August 28, 2025 10:14 AM (XQo4F)

84
She looks very English. No offense intended to les Francais.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2025 10:11 AM (36PRH)

_________

I've seen Madonna and Child paintings by Chinese artists where both are Chinese. Unutterably charming.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2025 10:15 AM (kkTda)

85 Fallen into a pit of despair over.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:09 AM

Welcome. The Machine is this way...

Posted by: The Albino at August 28, 2025 10:15 AM (kgE5c)

86 It is depicted as a silver coin placed on a golden candle stand, which the Virgin Mary is adoring with rapt attention.

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I will leave it to the theologians among us to explain how a Mary who looks less than 30 years old would be adoring a host.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:16 AM (hY4dx)

87 I used a censer a few times when I was an altar boy.

Never did that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:07 AM

It's all about the giant balls of incense.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2025 10:17 AM (kgE5c)

88 Nice but not a fan. For spiritual worship and awe, Barocci's St. Francis, in NYC's Met Museum, is hard to beat. It's the only work of this master of the Italian Baroque in North America. https://tinyurl.com/bdde9pdp

Bellini's St. Francis is another one, a painting of someone literally bowled over by direct communication with God.

Posted by: vivi at August 28, 2025 10:17 AM (qj69p)

89 Maybe Ingres just wasn't good at painting babies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2025 10:17 AM (hY4dx)

90 And on the subject of Catholicism:

@TJM, I enjoyed the brief biography at your website of -- and tribute to -- your mom.

Posted by: ShainS -- Muslim Commie Momscrawny 2028: Free Weights for Every Cuck! at August 28, 2025 10:18 AM (xvXg6)

91 I will leave it to the theologians among us to explain how a Mary who looks less than 30 years old would be adoring a host.
Posted by: Cicero

Symbolic. Our Lady is standing behind the altar with the Priest as he blesses the wafer.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 28, 2025 10:18 AM (gKWVE)

92
*It's all about the giant balls of incense.*

Is this about me?

Posted by: Jerry Lee Lewis at August 28, 2025 10:19 AM (XQo4F)

93 Well. The Geezer Golf Open hosted every year at Lake Tapps has come to a close. I was able to battle back in the 2 round of this classic from a disastrous early round to finish 10th overall. While I missed out on the coveted Golden Geezer trophy (made from genuine American plastic) I did score a few bucks winning two skins. Sadly the beer sucked so I didn't stay for the celebrations and parade. Nor did President Trump call in this year to congratulate the winner as he was too busy working on his 6 iron fade.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2025 10:20 AM (2WIwB)

94 CBD, did you see it in person and decide to use it on the thread?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

Yes. I was at Musée d'Orsay (there may be another version at the Louvre) a few days ago and saw it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 10:20 AM (L5An7)

95 @89 The altar boys don't seem to be too shocked to see Mary standing there admiring the Host.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2025 10:21 AM (36PRH)

96 I think Ol' G Gordon was probably exaggerating.

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G Gordon said back in his day, men were men and baked their own potatoes. He and the other kids would poke holes in a tin can and attach string. They'd put twigs in, light them on fire, insert a potato, and swing it vigorously to act as a bellows heating the fire and baking the potato. I guess they had strong arms because it takes a while to bake a potato. (No word on where they got the butter and sour cream.) Anyway, he transferred that concept to the censor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

97 94 CBD, did you see it in person and decide to use it on the thread?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

Yes. I was at Musée d'Orsay (there may be another version at the Louvre) a few days ago and saw it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 10:20 AM (L5An7)

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I just saw it listed on a website as being at the Louvre. Maybe there's some kind of loan going on. Or there are multiple versions (I did see another version where Mary was flanked by men with crowns rather than angels painted in 1852 rather than the above's 1854).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

98
Nice but not a fan. For spiritual worship and awe, Barocci's St. Francis, in NYC's Met Museum, is hard to beat. It's the only work of this master of the Italian Baroque in North America.

https://tinyurl.com/bdde9pdp

Bellini's St. Francis is another one, a painting of someone literally bowled over by direct communication with God.

Posted by: vivi at August 28, 2025 10:17 AM (qj69p)

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Thanks for those recommendations; here's the latter (Giovanni Bellini (Italian, ca. 1424 or 1435–1516), "St. Francis in the Desert"):

https://is.gd/6cPK6P

Posted by: ShainS -- Muslim Commie Momscrawny 2028: Free Weights for Every Cuck! at August 28, 2025 10:24 AM (xvXg6)

99 Golfed yesterday and had my lowest score in memory. Back to my teens, at least. 15 shots lower than my average "good" round.
No idea where that came from, don expect to see it again.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 28, 2025 10:26 AM (n4GiU)

100 Do not swing the censer like I do Mjolnir. Bad ju-ju.

Posted by: Thor at August 28, 2025 10:27 AM (wVcYX)

101 On the boat heading into town.

Why does it make me so happy the fish jumping? Silly salmon.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2025 10:27 AM (SAKKj)

102 Lady, "but I ordered a Frosty."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2025 10:28 AM (6gCWo)

103 This is an interesting painting, and the explanation of it expands it

This looks like an Orthodox Icon done in the style of the pre-Raphaelites

I had to look it up, by the way: Marian Blue hex color code is #2B4593 with RGB (43, 69, 147)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2025 10:28 AM (rbvCR)

104 Damn right wing MAGAt Republican!

Vince Coglianese@VinceCoglianese
ABC reporter refers to “the name of President Trump written on the guns” without mentioning that the message was “k*ll Donald Trump”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

105 Is the gold part of the painting or an ornate frame?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2025 10:30 AM (g+HUj)

106 Always thought "Mary" blue was lighter, like a sky blue.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 28, 2025 10:30 AM (n4GiU)

107 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2025 10:31 AM (u82oZ)

108 No idea where that came from, don expect to see it again."

Was it storming with background music?
Heh.

Posted by: man at August 28, 2025 10:32 AM (tubbA)

109 Always thought "Mary" blue was lighter, like a sky blue.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 28, 2025 10:30 AM (n4GiU)
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Mary's traditional color was "true blue," derived from powdered lapis lazuli. Needless to say, a very expensive pigment.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:32 AM (WvZaB)

110 101 On the boat heading into town.

Why does it make me so happy the fish jumping? Silly salmon.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2025 10:27 AM (SAKKj)

Opened a window a crack on one of the cool evenings this week and caught a whiff of Fall. A bit of cut grass and people grilling on the cool air immediately reminded me of being a kid. I remember wondering if that's what the salmon smell when they find that exact right stream.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 28, 2025 10:32 AM (pIfcn)

111 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

The Louvre lists a lot of art that it doesn't have. It's the national museum of France, so they think that they own all art in the country. They consider stuff to be "En dépôt," or "on deposit," at other museums.

Pretty arrogant, even for the French.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 10:32 AM (L5An7)

112 111
The Louvre lists a lot of art that it doesn't have. It's the national museum of France, so they think that they own all art in the country. They consider stuff to be "En dépôt," or "on deposit," at other museums.

Pretty arrogant, even for the French.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 10:32 AM (L5An7)

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*downs a gauloises in one drag*

C'est la vie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

113 Just saw an ad on Twitter for Roy Cooper.

No mention of his party.

Brought to you by ActBlue.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2025 10:34 AM (BcAQj)

114 New York Times Says Motive Of Transgender Church Shooter Who Mocked Christians Is "Mystery"

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We'll probably never know the true motive.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

115 113 Just saw an ad on Twitter for Roy Cooper.

No mention of his party.

Brought to you by ActBlue.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2025 10:34 AM (BcAQj)

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There was no slowdown in NC Dem registration decline after his announcement.

Feel the enthusiasm.

He could win. I kind of doubt it, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

116 107 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I guess glowering, a middle finger salute, and snarling are not the AOS approved response to leftists.

Posted by: whig at August 28, 2025 10:35 AM (ctrM5)

117 Pretty arrogant, even for the French.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 10:32 AM (L5An7)

They are, after all, a funny race.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2025 10:35 AM (wVcYX)

118 Morn' all.... pretty painting... So now Maryland Man is asking for asylum ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)

119 It's up to the State Department to grant asylum, yes ? Application denied !

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:37 AM (g47mK)

120 CNN: The US economy’s rebound in the second quarter was stronger than previously reported

You mean the experts were wrong? Again? I shan’t believe it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:37 AM (wrRTB)

121 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I guess glowering, a middle finger salute, and snarling are not the AOS approved response to leftists.

Posted by: whig at August 28, 2025 10:35 AM (ctrM5)
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Happy warriors, we.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:37 AM (WvZaB)

122 Morn' all.... pretty painting... So now Maryland Man is asking for asylum ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)

Put him in a Ugandan Asylum.

Wish granted!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2025 10:38 AM (iJfKG)

123 LOL !

"Israel attacks Houthis in Sanaa during terror leader's televised speech."

Good timing!

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:38 AM (g47mK)

124 La Vierge adorant l'hostie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Not among his most famous paintings but it's beautifully detailed, framed and highlighted.

Fine Art Images,
Number:000324
Title:The Virgin Adoring the Host (La Vierge adorant l'hostie)
Artist:Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
Museum:State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Method:Oil on canvas
Created:1841
School:France
Category:Bible
Trend in art:Classicism
Keywords:Madonna, Bible, New Testament, Virgin before the Host, Communion cup, Saint Host, Altar, Consecration, Mary, Virgin Mary, Eucharist, Communion, Communion Chalice, Eucharist chalice, Virgin of the Host

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2025 10:38 AM (NFX2v)

125 Maryland Man will never leave the US.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (wrRTB)

126 "Israel attacks Houthis in Sanaa during terror leader's televised speech."
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Did they televise him running out of the venue like a little baby?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (WvZaB)

127 99 Golfed yesterday and had my lowest score in memory. Back to my teens, at least. 15 shots lower than my average "good" round.
No idea where that came from, don expect to see it again.
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Try Cocaine. It worked for Rick James.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (c711F)

128 They'd put twigs in, light them on fire, insert a potato, and swing it vigorously to act as a bellows heating the fire and baking the potato.

I think ol' G. had quite the, um, "active" memory.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (8a8Mp)

129 Health food.

Landmark Study Says Meat May Protect You From Cancer

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

130 Did they televise him running out of the venue like a little baby?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (WvZaB)

they prerecord , like Brezhnev, just in case

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:40 AM (g47mK)

131 Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2025 10:38 AM (NFX2v)

My pleasure!

Yes, it is a painting that showcases his skill.

And... it is hanging in Musée d'Orsay as recently as Sunday!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 28, 2025 10:41 AM (L5An7)

132 Did they televise him running out of the venue like a little baby?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (WvZaB)

they prerecord , like Brezhnev, just in case
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:40 AM (g47mK)
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Aw, crep. One can hope.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:41 AM (WvZaB)

133 At 0940 local time it's so dark the street lights are on. Weather radar showing what looks like an all day soaker.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 28, 2025 10:41 AM (gm9Sb)

134 98- thank you for the link. People who don't know anything about Catholicism miss out on the nuance, skill and power of our art. Years ago I was at the Met with the Sikh wife of my husband's friend. She was an art restorer. In the medieval section, right at the entrance is a stunning carved wooden statue of the Madonna and Child.

https://tinyurl.com/3bne7dyd

It levels me how the sculptor took a very common episode in the life of every mom teaching her baby to read; the faraway look in her eyes tells it all.

My friend was ready to move on but I wasn't. She asked why and I said, "Because she's teaching her baby to read knowing all the while that some day He will die on the cross."

My friend took a step back and almost shouted "You mean she KNEW???"

I think I'll stop by today and take another look at it, the day after the modern recreation of the Massacre of the Innocents.

This time around, with more Herods.

Posted by: vivi at August 28, 2025 10:41 AM (qj69p)

135 Landmark Study Says Meat May Protect You From Cancer
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)
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Cool. I protected myself with a lovely steak last night.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:42 AM (WvZaB)

136
Shin Godzilla...

Is that a movie about a tiny lizard that uses its atomic breath to set your tibia on fire?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2025 10:42 AM (iJfKG)

137 eat moar Chiken !

Posted by: runner at August 28, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

138 Looking through Cook's complaint about her firing...

She all but admits that the asserted mortgage fraud is true.

The emphasis is on caselaw definition of "for cause" which includes "malfeasance in office". A lot (A LOT) of emphasis on the "in office" part.

"It doesn't matter what I did before I took office," essentially.

Fascinating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

139 132 Did they televise him running out of the venue like a little baby?
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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The Brown Stain of Courage.

Posted by: whig at August 28, 2025 10:44 AM (ctrM5)

140 Al Sharpton is leading a pro DEI anti Trump march on Wall Street. I'm sure that will change everything

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2025 10:45 AM (rRoxM)

141 140 Somebody should remind the IRS about Sharpton's past tax difficulties and make sure he has made timely payments to rectify the matter.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 28, 2025 10:47 AM (gm9Sb)

142 Try Cocaine. It worked for Rick James.
Posted by: pudinhead

Long, long ago I would go ten pin bowling on lsd, theory being I could improve my score by tugging the trails to guide the ball into the pocket.
My memory is that it worked, but....

Posted by: From about That Time at August 28, 2025 10:47 AM (n4GiU)

143 Al Sharpton is leading a pro DEI anti Trump march on Wall Street. I'm sure that will change everything
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2025 10:45 AM (rRoxM)

He's still a fat fuck, on the inside.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2025 10:47 AM (wVcYX)

144 >Al Sharpton is leading a pro DEI anti Trump march on Wall Street.
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I recently started watching a show called Boston Legal. So far I like it but Al Sharpton has been in 2 episodes so far, and I'm only on the 1st season.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 28, 2025 10:48 AM (AOsQT)

145 How much more DEI do they want? It’s virtually impossible for a straight white male to het hired in corporate America today. You can’t go lower than zero Al.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:48 AM (wrRTB)

146 Maryland Man will never leave the US.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 28, 2025 10:39 AM (wrRTB)

DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
18h
You can tell who someone truly worships by what they refuse to call wrong. Watch.
Aug 27, 2025 · 8:31 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2025 10:48 AM (rbvCR)

147 Well, that was a copy-paste fail

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2025 10:49 AM (rbvCR)

148 The emphasis is on caselaw definition of "for cause" which includes "malfeasance in office". A lot (A LOT) of emphasis on the "in office" part.

"It doesn't matter what I did before I took office," essentially.

Fascinating.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Std MO. When the facts of the case are against you, emphasize the law. Unfortunately for her, lending and bank regulation is part of the Fed's role and having her as a governor over such is like having a prosecutor who committed crimes before being in office.

In the end, the emphasis will be on racism as 'cause' is defined more broadly in caselaw than simply misconduct in office. It includes a pattern of unethical actions leading to a lack of confidence in performing duties as well.

Posted by: whig at August 28, 2025 10:49 AM (ctrM5)

149 >He's still a fat fuck, on the inside.

Posted by: Count de Monet
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bobblehead on the outside

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 28, 2025 10:49 AM (AOsQT)

150 She's looking down at the Paolo's crotch. She's not impressed ...

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2025 10:49 AM (iFTx/)

151 143 Al Sharpton is leading a pro DEI anti Trump march on Wall Street. I'm sure that will change everything
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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DEI has been berry berry good to him. H/T Chico Escuela.

Posted by: whig at August 28, 2025 10:50 AM (ctrM5)

152 If you cut the output from a device that detects the presence of incense, does that make you a censer sensor censor?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:51 AM (6cknw)

153 If you cut the output from a device that detects the presence of incense, does that make you a censer sensor censor?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2025 10:51 AM (6cknw)
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*golf clap*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2025 10:51 AM (WvZaB)

154 this photo captures the Democrat party perfectly

https://tinyurl.com/33h4tuh7

Posted by: Don Black. Message: My sources say no at August 28, 2025 10:52 AM (AOsQT)

155 I see the stock market is generally off to a rough start today so I took a look into why and the answer is tariffs going into effect

But everyone knew that was coming yesterday as well.

Oh and...Amazon is up, perhaps the world's biggest shipper of cheap Asian products to the US so...how does that make sense?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2025 10:53 AM (sKqQm)

156 Because she's teaching her baby to read knowing all the while that some day He will die on the cross."
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She didn't know that.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2025 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)

157 What I learned today. An incense dispenser is spelled "censEr."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

158 That TERF in the painting is just asking to be shot.

Posted by: "Robin" Westman at August 28, 2025 10:55 AM (7CamO)

159 Beautiful. Thank you, CBD.

Thanks to Jesus, now everyone can have a Jewish mother!

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 28, 2025 10:55 AM (4Z4M/)

160 I'd been wondering what kind of sandwich that idiot in DC threw.
Still don know, but the grand jury has proven it wasn't a ham sandwich.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 28, 2025 10:56 AM (n4GiU)

161 Oh and...Amazon is up, perhaps the world's biggest shipper of cheap Asian products to the US so...how does that make sense?!?
Posted by: 18-1
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A lot of the churn is based on computers trading against other computers nowadays--not on humans focusing on investment fundamentals so much.

Back when I was doing serious stat work, Wall Street market indexes were used as examples in time series of a random statistical walk where the data has to be detrended to be useful.

Posted by: whig at August 28, 2025 10:56 AM (ctrM5)

162 I guess there was method to their madness.

UK Enacts Plan To Stop Rape Gangs By Arresting All Potential Rape Victims

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

163 What I learned today. An incense dispenser is spelled "censEr."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 28, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

Tension, apprehension and dissension has begun

Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2025 10:57 AM (rbvCR)

164 >>>127 99 Golfed yesterday and had my lowest score in memory. Back to my teens, at least. 15 shots lower than my average "good" round.
No idea where that came from, don expect to see it again.
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Try Cocaine. It worked for Rick James.

You won't remember what you shot, but you'll finish 18 in 36 minutes. On foot.

Posted by: red speck at August 28, 2025 10:58 AM (0Id0S)

165 On the censer swing, I think his hand was meant to be higher originally. May be some paint-over blur a bit higher up, behind candlestick.

There’s a reason why AI can’t do hands—they’re hard to do well.

Posted by: Foxyfire at August 28, 2025 11:01 AM (fQqaC)

166 Nood monkey

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 28, 2025 11:02 AM (N1tpc)

167 Tension, apprehension and dissension has begun
Posted by: Kindltot
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Better than gunpowder, treason, and plot.

Posted by: whig at August 28, 2025 11:02 AM (ctrM5)

168 167 Tension, apprehension and dissension has begun
Posted by: Kindltot
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Better than gunpowder, treason, and plot.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2025 11:02 AM (ctrM5)

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In England? Today? With this Paliament?

Are you sure about that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 28, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

169 131. Yes, it is a painting that showcases his skill.

And... it is hanging in Musée d'Orsay as recently as Sunday!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises)
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It seems there are a minimum of three versions of the painting:

The Virgin Adoring the Host 1841 Pushkin Museum, Moscow (116x84)

The Virgin Adoring the Host 1852 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (40.3 x 32.7)

The Virgin Adoring the Host 1854 Louvre, Paris (113 diameter)

There may be a 1855 Watercolor Version
Location: Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (part of the Harvard Art Museums)
Details: This watercolor was made for Madame Ingres, the artist's wife.

There's also The Virgin of the Blue Veil, 1827, São Paulo Museum of Art (77 x 65) is only the Virgin Mary with no other decoration.

And, The Virgin with the Host, 1860, Private collection (60 x 46) is more chaotic with many cherubs, but less decorative.

He certainly kept busy.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2025 11:05 AM (NFX2v)

170 Thank you CBD
Beautiful & meaningful

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 28, 2025 11:43 AM (IMKWe)

171 156 not getting into a debate here. You do you. But she did know.

Posted by: Vivi at August 28, 2025 11:44 AM (cpunl)

172 I downloaded and added to my screensaver pics

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 28, 2025 11:46 AM (IMKWe)

173 You’d think the angel on the right would burn his fingers on the hot metal of that lamp near the flame, but he doesn’t. Confer the seraphim described in Isaiah 6.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2025 01:09 PM (Hxgql)

174 The line seems busy today

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 28, 2025 06:13 PM (wGqjj)

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