Esther by Katie Gardiner Hastings Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home! Today is Purim, this holiday celebrates Esther's story in the Bible. The book of Esther is about a Jewish orphan girl who rose up to become a Queen of Persia. She had faith in God so strong that her actions of intercession delivered her people from genocide. (Actions prove your faith.) Esther is the only book in the Bible that doesn't mention God, but God approves of Esther's actions that is why she is allowed this book in the Bible. She models biblical womanhood. The holiday of Purim was established during Esther's time to celebrate how God delivered his people. There is a stark contrast to the two women in the story. The reigning Queen Vashti is not obedient and she gets exiled from the kingdom. Esther is faithful and obedient and gets married to the king and crowned in the kingdom. Esther glorifies God by her actions. This post and A Woman of Virtue are for all of you women out there. Jesus is reaching out to you with this scripture and teaching you what he wants in a woman to glorify God. There are always a lot of great posts here at the Home Sweet Home party. Here are a few that caught my eye. Woven or Wagon Wheel Roses Embroidery Stitch Tutorial by Flamingo Toes. Waiting and Trusting by Bless This Empty Nest. Easy Weeknight Meal Plan Volume 20 by FiveSpot Green Living. *I will be absent next week and there will be no Home Sweet Home party but, it will return on Thursday March 15th. Sherry Follow me on Twitter Follow me on Facebook Follow me on Pinterest Follow me on Instagram Party Guidelines Would you please share anything related to your home in the spirit of Proverbs 31 (such as recipes, Christian encouragement, DIY's, gardening, home decoration, sewing, crafts, etc.) Please don't link up giveaways and advertisements. Follow and or subscribe to The Charm of Home. Please include a link in your post back to my blog. By linking up, you are giving The Charm of Home permission to use any picture or content to share as a feature on The Charm of Home social media outlets. If anything doesn't fit the theme of the party I will delete it. *If you are pinning a post submitted here, please pin from the original source. * Please note that posts on this party come from other blogs also and that they may not agree with my own personal faith. Take this into consideration when viewing links and use your own discernment using the Holy Scriptures as your guide. An InLinkz Link-up

Katie Pasquini Masopust took every art class she could in high school and now an award winning quilt artist known for her use of color and value.

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Artist  Louis Icart Toulouse, French, 1888-1950

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The son of painter and illustrator Ronald Lipking, Lipking’s interest in art started as a young child. He soon enrolled in the California Art Institute, where his burgeoning talent became evident as he devoted himself to serious study. He quickly found his own way and the unique ethereal style that has made him famous. Many of his well-known paintings feature his wife, Danielle, and their daughter, Skylar.

This remarkable painting measures four and a third by seven feet (132.7 × 214.4 centimeters). It depicts the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, at a lavish and deadly banquet. The Emperor reclines on a platform, crowned with laurels, cup in hand, surrounded by other favored guests. A bronze statue of Dionysus, based on the Ludovisi Dionysus, looms behind, while a young woman, wearing the leopard skin of a maenad, entertains the group by playing the double pipes. To the left of the Emperor looks to be a man dressed as a woman, perhaps meant to represent one of Elagabalus' male lovers, maybe even Hierocles, the former slave and charioteer he considered his husband. (Though it appears Elagabalus was the one more likely to dress as a woman; he's been characterized by some modern writers as transgender.) The real drama, of course, is happening below, as the less favored guests are literally being smothered by deep drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling. The figures are shown in varying degrees of cognizance, from obliviousness to terror to resignation. The painting depicts a (most likely invented) episode taken from the Historia Augusta. Although the Latin refers to "violets and other flowers", Alma-Tadema depicts the Emperor's unsuspecting guests being suffocated by rose petals. The original reference is this: Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent. In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top. Suetonius noted that another completely disreputable emperor, Nero, threw exactly the same sort of banquet, and Petronius described a similar ceiling in the house of Trimalchio in his Satyricon. The painting was commissioned by Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet for £4,000 in 1888. As roses were out of season in Britain at the time, Alma-Tadema is reputed to have had rose petals sent from the south of France each week during the four months it took to complete the work. The finished work was exhibited at the Royal Academy that same year. Aird died in 1911, and the painting was inherited by his son Sir John Richard Aird, 2nd Baronet. Alma-Tadema died the following year and his reputation declined markedly in the decades after his death. Following the death of the 2nd Baronet in 1934, the painting was sold by his son, the 3rd Baronet, in 1935 for £483. It failed to sell at Christie's in 1960, though eventually it was acquired by Allen Funt, the producer of Candid Camera, and a collector of Alma-Tadema's at a time when the artist remained very unfashionable. In 1973, after Funt experienced financial difficulties, he sold the painting along with the rest of his collection at Sotheby's, achieving a price of £28,000. The painting was sold once again, in 1993, by American collector Frederick Koch at Christie's in London, where it fetched £1,500,000. It is currently owned by the Spanish-Mexican billionaire businessman and art collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón. The artist's portrayal of the Emperor seems hardly likely; the subject was only 18 at the time of his murder. Read more about the subject below. *** Adapted from Wikipedia: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, called Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus (circa 203-4 – March 11, 222), was Roman emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan dynasty, he was Syrian, the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. In his early youth he served as a priest of the god Elagabalus - the Syro-Roman sun god - in the hometown of his mother's family, Emesa. As a private citizen, he was probably named Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, but upon becoming emperor he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus. He was called Elagabalus only after his death. In 217, the emperor Caracalla was assassinated and replaced by his Praetorian prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. Caracalla's maternal aunt, Julia Maesa, successfully instigated a revolt among the Legio III Gallica to have her eldest grandson (and Caracalla's cousin), Elagabalus, declared emperor in his place. Macrinus was defeated at the Battle of Antioch the following year and Elagabalus, barely 14 years old, became emperor, initiating a reign remembered mainly for sex scandals and religious controversy. Historians record that Elagabalus showed a reckless disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. He replaced the traditional head of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter, with the deity Elagabalus, of whom he had been high priest, and he forced leading members of Rome's government to participate in religious rites celebrating this deity, over which he personally presided. Elagabalus married and divorced five women. The Historia Augusta claims that he also married a man named Zoticus, an athlete from Smyrna, in a public ceremony at Rome. According to Cassius Dio, his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver, a blond former slave from Caria named Hierocles, whom he referred to as his husband. Elagabalus lavished favours on his male courtiers, most of whom were presumed to be his lovers. And Cassius Dio also reported that he would paint his eyes, epilate his body hair, and wear wigs before prostituting himself in taverns, brothels, and even in the imperial palace. His behavior estranged and enraged the Praetorian Guard, the Senate, and the common people alike. Amidst growing opposition, a plot was devised by his grandmother, Julia Maesa - who had previously engineered his rise to the throne - and carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard. Elagabalus, just 18 years old, was assassinated in 222, his head cut off, and his body thrown in the Tiber. Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for extreme eccentricity, decadence, and zealotry. This tradition has persisted, and with writers of the early modern age he suffers one of the worst reputations among Roman emperors. Gibbon, for example, wrote that Elagabalus "abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures and ungoverned fury". According to Niebuhr, "The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others" because of his "unspeakably disgusting life". The sources for his personal and public history are far from reliable, and more recent historians have cast doubt on the more outrageous accusations made against the young emperor.

Katie McGrath as Queen Sabran Berethnet from The Priory of the Orange Tree by @sshannonauthor A quick paint commission for @magicpotionclass

For Katie O'Hagan, oil painting artist of figures and portraits, finding her artistic niche took time. Read her article from "The Artist's Magazine."

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Kids—they break you wide open and expose parts you didn’t even know could feel pain. By Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Last Updated January 22, 2024. Sizes and prices include the frame. Those without prices, just inquire. If there is something you want to reserve, please call/text 414-651-3463. Suspended Harvest, $2000 There's a Threat of a Killing Frost, $2700 The Urge, $700 So Incredibly Ripe, $350 One and Only Pumpkin, $400 Mourning Dove, $1200 Flight, $850 Imperial Moth, $600 For Her Pleasure, $1800 Black Eyed Susan 2, $300 Black Eyed Susan 1, $300 Male Canvasback, $750 Hidden Away, Out of Range, $3500 Pretty Little Package, $500 Silent Flight, $1800 Mulberry Leaf, $350 Temporary Removal of the Skunk Cabbage, $950 Monster or Miracle?, $350 CORN CROP, Watercolor on Paper, 24 x 37 1/4" (framed), $3500 Long Island Cheese Squash, $2000, 28 x 38 in. Life Cycle Of an Amaryllis Bulb, 29.5 x 28 in, $3500 Crawfish, $200 Trout from Lake Superior, 21 x 28 in, $2000 Dogfish, $1600 Turtle Shells, 1800 Buck Head, $1800

Print Details: Vertical/Portrait orientation. This listing is for an inkjet print of my original mixed media artwork. Printed on high quality Epson Matte paper with archival ink. Watermark will not appear on your print. Available in 8x10, 11x14 and large format (13x16.5-13x19) by clicking “select a size” when adding to cart. We offer a discount when purchasing 5 or more prints!: 8x10: https://www.etsy.com/listing/106815839/sale-set-of-6-8x10-prints 11x14: https://www.etsy.com/listing/127747412/sale-set-of-6-11x14-prints Shipping Details: 8x10 prints and 11x14 prints will be packaged in a protective cellophane sleeve with backing board, and shipped to you in a sturdy cardboard mailer. If you purchase multiple prints, please note they will all be packaged in a single sleeve. Large format prints will be carefully rolled into a sturdy mailing tube. Orders are shipped First Class via USPS. My current turn around time can be found on the "shipping and policies" tab of this listing :) If you’re purchasing this as a gift, please leave any gift note instructions in the “note to seller” section at checkout :) ****** ©Katie Daisy 2018 Images may not be reproduced, resold or used in any form without written consent. By purchasing this item you agree to my shop policies: https://www.etsy.com/your/shops/thewheatfield/policies

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