Sharon Okun

Painting

2023

Painted in Paris, Ontario in preparation for an exhibition at Scrap Metal Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. The exhibition was cancelled due to the covid pandemic.

Sharon Okun painted this work during the covid pandemic. It was intended for an exhibition at Scrap Metal gallery in Toronto, Canada, that was cancelled due to covid. The artists ni...

Can be purchased as a diptych, or individual art work . custom framing options available. Adam makes bespoke one fo a kind furniture and frames.

Can be purchased as a diptych, or individual art work . custom framing options available. Adam makes bespoke one fo a kind furniture and frames.

Foster II. Oil on birch wood panel. 60 x 60inches.

Chrysalis II. Oil painting on birch wood panel. 30 x 30 inches. Painted by Sharon Okun in Niagara on the Lake, Canada. A study in light.

Inscribed, reverse: Fr Brina Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey. Francesco Brina was one of the “Studiolo” painters, responsible for the panel of Neptune and Amphitrite in F...

The panel has been attributed both to Joan de Joanes and his son Vicente Macip Comes (Valencia, ca. 1555 – 1623). Provenance: Private Collection, England, by 1886 (according to stencils on the reverse) Private Collection, New Jersey, until 2010 The Veil of Veronica, often called the Sudarium, is one of the most important and well-known relics of Christ. According to legend, Veronica offered Christ her veil as he carried the cross to his crucifixion. He wiped his face with the veil, which left the cloth miraculously imprinted with his image. Depictions of Christ’s face on a veil, or simply images that focused in on Christ’s face, were treasured objects of religious devotion. The popularity of this format also inspired similar images of the face of the Virgin. The iconographic type of the present painting is known as the Veronica of the Virgin, which was especially favored in late medieval and early Renaissance Spain. Distinct from the images of the suffering Christ, the Veronica of the Virgin is based on the legend that Saint Luke painted a portrait of Mary from life. Although scholars have sometimes mistaken them for portraits of Queen Isabella I of Castile (known as Isabel la Católica) or as a depiction of Saint Maria Toribia (known as María de la Cabeza, or, Mary of the Head), paintings like this one were clearly intended as images of the Virgin in the style of Saint Luke’s lost portrait. The Veronica of the Virgin was especially popular in Valencia, and depictions of this subject produced there all stem back to one visual prototype: a Byzantine image in the city’s cathedral (Fig. 1). This early treatment of the Veronica was given to the cathedral in 1437 by Martin the Humane, King of Aragon and Valencia, who promoted religious veneration of the Veronica of the Virgin as part of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. This devotion spread throughout Martin’s kingdom and particularly took hold in Valencia, where the Byzantine image resided. The image, which is displayed in a gold reliquary...

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