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Description: | This scene depicts Pentecost, the birth of the Christian Church when the Apostles began to spread the Gospel to other peoples. After Christ's ascension into Heaven, the Apostles gathered together with the Virgin Mary. The Holy Spirit descended to them, granting them the ability to speak in many languages, so better to spread the word of Christ. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them (Acts 2) A nineteenth century addition of a dove, traditionally used to signify the Holy Spirit, was removed from the space above the Virgin. Botticelli's version is in keeping with the Bible, which speaks of 'tongues of fire', here represented as golden rays emanating from above and ending in fire on the heads of each Apostle. | Subjects: | religion (Pentecost:) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Botticelli, Sandro (Italian painter and draftsman, born 1444 or 1445, died 1510) and studio Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9167... | Go to resource |
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