Saint Joan
- SAINT JOAN - An acrylic painting on a 20 x 28 size canvas board. It was a spare- time painting circa 1998.
I read a magazine article about Loretta Young and the movies she made in 1935. The article featured several photo stills from those films and one of them was from, "The Crusades". I was so taken by her beautiful face in that photo that I decided to do a painting of her. I used only Young's pose in the photo, I made up the background and the chalice.
The Crusades of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries were religious expeditionary wars blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church to restore access to the holy land of Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ had been crucified, and which had been cut off by the Muslim Turks.
It is hard for me to understand all the religious warfare that has been going on over the centuries, perhaps it's because all religions are ruled by men who have added so much of their own moral dogma to their religious "Books". Books that acknowledge the existence of God, that teach love and peace, but differ about incidentals ...
All Christians believe in God as a Holy Trinity; that God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost (the spirit of the dead Christ), are one entity. Muslims believe in the same God, primarily refering to Him as "Allah," but they believe that Christ was a preacher of God, but not God himself. Jews also believe in the same God, but they believe that Jesus Christ was just a man, an extraordinary preacher who gave his life to prove his faith in God. Atheists believe that there is no God, that the Universe was created by a spontaneous occurrence and has no meaning.
None of these groups actually knows for sure, that what they believe is factual. If God exists, atheists will be embarrassed and feel foolish when they see the Pearly Gates. If God does not exist, nobody will ever know.
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