The Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist kneel on clouds as they look up at the Trinity of God the Father, Jesus Christ and the dove of the Holy Spirit: detail of early-1700s painting on the wooden nave ceiling vault of the Eglise Saint-Martin (Church of St Martin) at Lévignacq in the Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Lévignacq, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France: the Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist kneel on clouds as they look up to God the Father, Jesus Christ and the dove of the Holy Spirit above them, in this detail of a depiction of the Trinity painted in the early 18th century on the wooden planks of the boat-shaped vault over the nave of the medieval Eglise Saint-Martin (Church of St Martin). The Trinity was one of three large biblical scenes painted in illusionist perspective on the ceiling vault between 1713 and 1715, probably by a Bordeaux-based painter named Jean or Jacques Fautier, a member of the Paris Academy of Art. All three paintings are typical of grandiose Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation Baroque art, but are painted in a distinctive rustic style. One of the other scenes, the Transfiguration, is loosely based on a work, now in the Vatican Museums, by High Renaissance artist Raphael. The church, in the Pays de Born countryside of the Landes des Gascogne, close to the French Atlantic coast, is filled with many other artworks such as lengthy friezes of male and female saints and the remains of 15th century frescoes in the choir vault.
Size: 4256px × 2832px
Location: Lévignacq, Pays de Born, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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