The Sacred Feminine

Monday, May 13, 2024

Virtue

Allegory of Virtue

Netherlandish School, circa 1540

Zurbarán, The Virgin Mary as a Child Asleep

Francisco de Zurbarán, The Virgin Mary as a child asleep

Bernadino Luini, Madonna del Roseto

Iris

After Louis F Elle the Younger, portrait of a lady as Iris, the messenger goddess, source: Wikipedia

Monday, November 30, 2020

Evelyn De Morgan

Evelyn De Morgan, The Light Shineth in the Darkness

Friday, December 21, 2018

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Suhair Sibai

Birn in Syria and based in Los Angeles, Suhair Sibai explores notions of self and identity through the feminine form and emotionally charged colours.

About This Blog

A collection of some of the most beautiful depictions of the feminine in Western art throughout the ages, with a particular emphasis on the sacred feminine. Most of the works are paintings, and most in oil.

Included are some works by non-Western artists working in the Western tradition of oil technique.

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Comments and suggestions always welcome.

If you are the owner of any of the images and would like them removed please advise in a comment to the post.

Figurative art describes artwork - particularly paintings and sculptures - which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational. The term 'figurative art' is often taken to mean art which represents the human figure, or even an animal figure, and, though this is often the case, it is not necessarily so. Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world. This blog is about figurative art in the sense of the human figure, with particular emphasis on idealised representations of the feminine, or the feminine as sacred.