"The Sacred and The Profane" painting pair by Kevin Paulsen

"The Chaperone" by Kevin Paulsen. Large format "fragment" painting created with pigment and plaster on polystyrene, mounted in shadow box frame.

One of a kind painting by noted artist Kevin Paulsen, plaster and pigment on theatrical fabric.

"The Aftermath II" by Kevin Paulsen, created with paint and powdered pigment on blue velvet, mounted on board.

"The Bergundian Players" by Kevin Paulsen. Interior scene painting created with pigment on plaster, mounted on polystyrene, all in a shadow box frame.

Pietro Bardellino (Italy - Naples, 1732 - 1806), attr., Sacred Heart of the Child Jesus Measurements: with frame, cm L 86 x H 99 x P 8; only the canvas, cm L 78 x H 64 The painting, made in oil on canvas, represents the Sacred Heart of the Child Jesus. Stylistically the work is attributable to Pietro Bardellino (Italy, Naples, 1732 - Naples, 1806), a pupil of Francesco De Mura and considered by critics one of the most gifted and sensitive exponents of the Rococo style in Naples. The canvas represents the Child Jesus, surrounded by flowers in an outdoor setting, while showing the sacred heart. The canvas has a well-balanced color and a strong sweetness of the child’s traits, which with the complicit gesture of the right hand, involves the viewer in the intimate and delicate sharing of the garden in which he sits. The roses, in addition to being a beautiful piece of still life, contribute to enrich the Christological message, being bearers of symbolic meanings. Marian attributes par excellence, are often side by side with Christ, whose thorns foreshadow the Passion. In the canvas, on the top left, two cherubim are observed: among them, according to the Old Testament, is God: the author therefore puts into place an iconographic and iconological hyperbole that amplifies its meaning. The iconographic theme of the Child Jesus with the Sacred Heart in his hand spread between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first of the following century. With the worship of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic Church intends to honour the Heart of Jesus Christ, one of the organs symbolizing his humanity, which by intimate union with the Divinity, has the right to worship and love of the Saviour for men, of which His Heart is the symbol. It represents one of the fundamental devotions of Christian life, as it manifests the true face of God, who is prodigal and boundless love. It was the French mystic Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque...

This work is signed: K PALMER on lower right corner, recto of the canvas; canvas size 40"; x 36” x 1.5" profile. Kevin Palmer’s abstract approach to painting is influenced by his tra...

Young Vestal reviving the sacred fire. Oil on canvas, French school of the 1st half of the 18th c., follower of Jean RAOUX 1677-1734. In ancient Rome, the Vestals or Vestal Virgins w...

(1912-1978). Original ace powell oil on canvas; 24" x 48" frame 56" x 34" American artist Ace Powell, real name Asa Lynn Powell, was born in 1912 in Tularo...