Four Apostles – John the Evangelist and Peter, Mark and Paul Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Albrecht Dürer – Four Apostles - John the Evangelist and Peter, Mark and Paul
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Painter: Albrecht Dürer
Location: Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
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The Four Apostles painting depicts the evangelist apostles. From left to right stand John, Peter, Mark, and Paul, standing very closely together, on the same floor, representing a single unit. One in composition as well as in aspiration. However, if we compare the apostles to one another, they are completely different. John is tall, with a high forehead-he is already beginning to go bald. He holds a book in his hand, looking through it with a face tense and a little distracted.
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The Four Apostles painting depicts the evangelist apostles. From left to right stand John, Peter, Mark, and Paul, standing very closely together, on the same floor, representing a single unit. One in composition as well as in aspiration. However, if we compare the apostles to one another, they are completely different. John is tall, with a high forehead-he is already beginning to go bald.
He holds a book in his hand, looking through it with a face tense and a little distracted. He seems unattractive, as is the case with scientists who are overly engrossed in things. He represents a sanguine character. Next to him is Peter, standing with his gaze fixed on the floor.
According to tradition, Peter betrayed Christ, though he repented of it - on the night of Christ’s imprisonment, Peter was asked three times if he knew the man, and three times Peter, who had previously sworn allegiance to him and was fanatical in his faith, answered "No." His posture shows a heavy brooding, a quiet sullenness, as if oppressed by his guilt, he has never been able to say goodbye to it completely. He is phlegmatic. Next to him is Mark. Joyfully animated, he looks at the huge book Paul is holding--probably the Gospel--and anticipates the work ahead.
To glorify the Lord, to spread his word over the whole earth, seems to Mark a worthy endeavor. Temperamental, he looks forward to getting started. He is a choleric.
Paul, standing next to him, is calmer. He holds the Gospel in his hands and in his other hand he has a stick to lean on. He is dressed in white and looks stern and serious, as if asking the onlooker - how did their great campaign turn out? Did the people listen to them? Have they believed in God? He is a melancholic.
For all the dissimilarity of the apostles, for all the different faces, they all look alike as believers, and the same light shines on them from within.
That light that came upon them after Christ’s ascension is what made them more than brothers.
COMMENTS: 1 Ответы
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-Как же стану я ловцом людей?! –
Видел свет чудесного улова.
Ощущает силу сил верней,
Чем постичь сумел бы силу слова.
Все двенадцать собраны, и вот
Светом облучаемы любовно.
Истина когда тебя ведёт,
Можно ли остаться прежним?
Словно
Почва – удобренье получив,
Праздной ли останется? Апостол
Иоанн, предвидящий массив
Данных, что откроет дикий остров.
И Андрей, идущий в никуда,
Знающий так точно цель дороги.
Фарисеев ложная среда –
Где обман, как подвести итоги?
И Петру отречься суждено.
Путаются времена и знаки.
В точности постигнуть не дано
Нам пути апостолов – двояки:
То, что записали, – то, что зна-
ли – а знали, вероятно, больше.
А неверье наше – как вина,
Либо в душах серый пепел фальши.
Павел, свет узревший на пути –
Что Дамаск, раз истина открылась?
И она даётся словно милость,
Вместе с этим можно к ней придти.
Многие дороги, много скал –
Патмос возвышается громоздко,
Ибо в духе Иоанн стоял –
Образы слоились в бездне мозга.
Колокол нас к действию зовёт –
К действию Богопознанья. Трудно.
Ощутить так хочется полёт,
Спать душа не может беспробудно.
Четырьмя Евангельями мир
Иисуса описать едва ли –
Он частицей в нас, мы в нём – пойми
Волю совершенной вертикали.
Иоанн мистическую суть
Света объясняет силой Слова.
От начала не представить путь –
Тщишься, грешный снова, снова, снова.
И идут двенадцать человек…
На ветру колышутся одежды.
Космосом идут, и суммой вер
Наших – не такие мы, как прежде,
Хоть растём не быстро. Но растём –
В этом росте бьётся пульс надежды,
Светом укрепляемый притом.
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Perhaps it’s a painting of a man in a white robe and.