Register a gallery. Sell an artwork. Add an exhibition. Apps for artists. Apps for galleries. Short link. Fountains are always attractive. Such hydraulic units were of special importance for ancient people , Asian and Mediterranean civilizations. Both the rich and the poor needed water and looked for it. Painters did not neglect the decorated source of water and it took its own place among the graphic codes.
So , meet a fountain and its symbolism Exquisite still-lifes and marvelous plants on canvases: flowers do not only beautify the appearance, but also open secret meanings, and convey messages to the attentive researcher. Leafing through captivating Herbarium, we're examining enigmatic garden of flower symbols. Read more Symbolism is an art movement that has been reflected in painting, literature and music. It reached the peak of popularity at the turn of the 19thth centuries.
Symbolism is characterized by sadness, introspection and understatement: as if an artist came to quiet despair, but he was too shy to talk about these feelings, so he painted them.
Read more. Strict vertical line of a washstand Byzantium , a heiress of the Roman Empire Empire fr. It was popular during the first three decades of the 19th century. The Empire style arose in France during the reign of Napoleon, later it was replaced by the eclectic art movements currents and then itfound its revival in The symbol of a baptismal font used for baptism also called baptistery and at the same time the symbol of Eden was depicted for the first time in illuminated manuscripts and later in wall paintings.
The early Christian subject matter , often found in catacombs , depicts St. Peter and St. Paul and two pigeons at a fountain symbolizing souls drinking water from the fountain with the life-giving water in Eden. Indeed, blood is thicker than water. You can see this development in the central panel of the Ghent Altarpiece the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb , which was finished in by Jan van Eyck. The Lamb of God symbolizing Christ is shown standing on the altar with the blood issuing from his wounds filling the fountain , a symbolism of the Christian faith.
The water from the lower part of the fountain gushes down to the streamway decorated with gemstones and runs toward the altar. And it came to pass in that day that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water Genesis , 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, Here by wells nothing else is signified than doctrinal matters about which they contended, and those about which they did not contend.
Otherwise their digging wells and contending so many times about them would not be of so much importance as to be worthy of mention in the Divine Word. They journeyed to Beer; this is the well whereof Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; answer ye from it. The princes digged the well, the willing of the people digged it, in the law-giver, with their staves Num. As a well signified these things, there was therefore this prophetic song in Israel, in which the doctrine of truth is treated of, as is evident from every particular in the internal sense. Hence came the name Beer a well , and hence the name Beer-sheba , and its signification in the internal sense, as being doctrine itself.
Their nobles have sent their little ones to the water; they came to the pits, they found no water; they returned with their vessels empty Jeremiah ;. In the same My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, to hew them out pits, broken pits, that can hold no waters Jeremiah ;.
The afflicted and the needy seek waters, and there are none; their tongue faileth for thirst. The Yoni on the other hand, represents Nature, the multitude of manifesting and manifested forms in Nature. The descending and horizontally following, outwardly energy.
The Lingam, a phallic symbol or mark, is connected to the upward pointed triangle, which is also the symbol of fire. The linga principle is present in the male sexual organ both in plants and in animals?
The worship of the linga is connected in a rather general sense to the worship of pillars, obelisks, standing stones and pyramids among many of the ancient cultures.
The Yoni, or the womb principle, is the vessel and the very power which brings about the manifestation of Life or the embodiment that houses the formless consciousness. So, the Lingam represents the vertical axis, while the Yoni signifies the horizontally circumferential manifesting form.
We can see this in the circular movement of the stars around a galaxy, planets around the Sun, and electrons around atomic nucleus, as well as many other diverse phenomena on Earth such as hurricane and tornado formation.
Thus, in case of fountains, although water is a feminine element and naturally flows downwards, when combined with the masculine principle, water is actively made to move upwards like in a fountain which can specifically symbolise ejaculation insemination , in general terms likened to the evaporation of water from oceans to form clouds in the sky which return back to earth in the form of rain forming rivers. Similarly, impregnation resulting in the manifestation of new life form s , offspring.
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