08 Works, July 10th. is Bartolomeo Gennari's day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #187

Bartolomeo Gennari

L'Ange Gardien protégeant un enfant du démon/ The Guardian Angel protecting a child from the demon

Oil on canvas

Musée Magnin

A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation. Belief in tutelary beings can be traced throughout all antiquity. The idea of angels that guard over people played a major role in Ancient Judaism. In Christianity, the hierarchy of angels was extensively developed in the 5th century by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The theology of angels and tutelary spirits has undergone many changes since the 5th century. Belief in both the East and the West[clarification needed] is that guardian angels serve to protect whichever person God assigns them to, and present prayer to God on that person's behalf. More on guardian angel

Bartolomeo Gennari (10 July 1594 – 29 January 1661) was an Italian Renaissance painter.

Bartolomeo Gennari (1594–1661) (attributed to)

The Cumaean Sibyl

Oil on canvas

H 103.5 x W 86 cm

National Trust, Nostell Priory

The Cumaean Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony located near Naples, Italy. The word sibyl comes from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. There were many sibyls in different locations throughout the ancient world. Because of the importance of the Cumaean Sibyl in the legends of early Rome as codified in Virgil's Aeneid VI, and because of her proximity to Rome, the Cumaean Sibyl became the most famous among the Romans.

The Cumaean Sibyl prophesied by “singing the fates” and writing on oak leaves. These would be arranged inside the entrance of her cave.

The Sibyl was a guide to the underworld (Hades), whose entrance lay at the nearby crater of Avernus. Aeneas employed her services before his descent to the lower world to visit his dead father Anchises, but she warned him that it was no light undertaking. More on the Cumaean Sibyl

Bartolomeo Gennari (1594–1661) (possibly)

Queen Semiramis, Queen of Assyria (9th C BC) at Her Toilet, Receiving a Report of the Revolt of Her Troops (after Guercino), c. 17th C

Oil on canvas

H 130 x W 157.5 cm

National Trust, Petworth House

As told by the Roman moralist Valerius Maximus in his Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, Queen Semiramis, one of the mythical founders of the Assyrian empire of Nineveh, is interrupted while dressing, by a messenger telling her of a Babylonian rebellion. Her hair is undone but she takes a solemn oath to abandon her toilette until peace is restored. More on this painting

Bartolomeo Gennari

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Oil on canvas

97 x 131cm.

Private collection

Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Joseph works hard for his master, Potʹi·phar. So when Joseph grows older, Potʹi·phar puts him in charge of his whole house. 

Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man, and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded. Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire household. No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God.”

So when her husband comes home, she lies to him and says: ‘Joseph tried to lie down with me!’ Potʹi·phar believes his wife, and he is very angry with Joseph. So he has him thrown into prison. More on Joseph and Potiphar’s wife

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino

David and Abigail

Oil on canvas

131 x 135

Yaroslavl Art Museum

Abigail was married to Nabal; she became married to the future King David after Nabal's death. Abigail was David's second wife. She became the mother of one of David's sons, Daniel.

Nabal had demonstrated ingratitude towards David, and Abigail attempts to placate David, in order to stop the future King from taking revenge. She gives him food, and speaks to him, urging him not to "have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed."

After Abigail reveals to Nabal what she has done, "God struck Nabal and he died," after which David married her. Abigail is described as intelligent and beautiful. More on Abigail

Attributed to Bartolomeo Gennari

Christ and the Samaritan at the well

Oil on canvas

122x169 cm

Private collection

Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.. Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink', you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?" Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." More on the Samaritan woman

Bartolomeo Gennari

Jesus and Caiaphas

Oil on canvas

Length: 121 cm Height: 103 cm

Private collection

Joseph ben Caiaphas, known simply as Caiaphas in the New Testament, was the Jewish high priest who, according to the gospels, organized a plot to kill Jesus. He famously presided over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus. The primary sources for Caiaphas' life are the New Testament, and the writings of Josephus. Josephus records that he was made high priest by the Roman procurator Valerius Gratus after Simon ben Camithus had been deposed. More on Caiaphas

Son of the painter Benedetto Gennari and Giulia Bovi, his baptism is recorded in the collegiate church of San Biagio in Cento. Together with his younger brother Ercole Gennari (1597-1658) he was a lifetime associate of Guercino, of which he copied several works.

Attributed to Bartolomeo Gennari (Italian, 1594–1661)

Flora , c. 1649–1649

Oil on Canvas

144.2 x 97.8 cm. (56.8 x 38.5 in.)

Private collection

Flora is a Roman goddess of flowers and of the season of spring – a symbol for nature and flowers. While she was otherwise a relatively minor figure in Roman mythology, being one among several fertility goddesses, her association with the spring gave her particular importance at the coming of springtime, as did her role as goddess of youth. She was one of the fifteen deities who had their own flamen, the Floralis, one of the flamines minores. Her Greek counterpart is Chloris. More on Flora

His style puts him in the Bolognese School of painting. More on Bartolomeo Gennari

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