Baptizing you, Lord! in Jordan,
Yes, in sanctifying the bath water and the Spirit
Omoesh verbal nature of sin,
In three persons was revered deity:
Father invisible, He Who is, every reason
You declared vozlyublennago Son;
And in the form of a dove, an example of purity,
The Spirit of God to Thee Gathering of the height,
Truthfully approved Otecheskago words.
You're the world in the cloud cover telesnago
Appeared, holy Light! razgnal sinfulness mist,
And faith shining world reads Thy praise.
You've come to the voice thundering in the desert:
? Prepare the Most High the path of truth and holiness !?
Groom verbal shower! to a friend of the Bridegroom,
Baptism is not asking leading sin,
View assumes the slave, the Lord of all nature!
Saw thee, and they were filled with water;
And trembling cried husband, sent by the Creator,
Husband-angel before thy face preceded by:
How to Light a lamp enlighten inconspicuous?
As King put his hand on the slave nischetny?
You vzemlesh sin of the world fleeing mortal race,
Holy! You sanctify me and the abyss of waters.
Shira-Shikhmatov Sergey Aleksandrovich (1783-1837)

Andrea del Verrocchio. The Baptism of Christ, 1475 Oil on wood.
The angel on the left (bottom left corner) - the creation of Leonardo da Vinci

According to the Gospel story, after his baptism, Jesus Christ, led by the Spirit, went into the desert to in solitude, prayer and fasting to prepare for the execution of the mission with which he came to earth. Jesus forty days? Was tempted by the devil and ate nothing in those days, and when they finally were hungry? (Luke 4: 2). Then came to him the devil and the three seduction tried to tempt him to sin, as every human being.

Andrea del Verrocchio - Madonna and child, 1470-75 period, Tempera, Leinwand

Andrea del Verrocchio - Mary with the Child

Andrea del Verrocchio - Madonna with Sts John the Baptist and_Donatus
 
Andrea del Verrocchio (Andrea del Verrocchio, real name Andrea di Michele Cioni-Andrea di Michele Cioni) (1435, Florence in 1488, Venice)

to Italian sculptor and painter of Vozrozhdeniya.Imya borrowed from his teacher, yuveliraVerrokko.On trained such as the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and SandroBottichelli.Predanie states that one of the most striking outcome of the spiritual union of the student and the teacher was a sculpture of David for which posed a young Leonardo.V 1476 Andrea del Verrocchio's statue created Davida.Eta graceful bronze statue has become a symbol of Renaissance culture.

Andrea del Verrocchio - David, 1473-75, the bronze

Andrea del Verrocchio - Tobias und der Engel 1470 - 75 Oil on wood

by Walter Sickert paintings

What could be better -
..................... Boundless sea,
And run away waves
................... Where you are.
And on the waves - the boat,
.................... Flies, does not sink.

Border - a strip
................. Between the sea and the sky.
In a cloudless sky -
................... Snooty wind
A blue so much -
................... Not cover the eyes,
And caught the sun
................ In transparent network
As yellow fish -
................ During sunset.

And if suddenly the sky
................. Turn over the sea -
- Let yellow fish
................... Little shine -
Everything will be as it was,
.................... And you can bet
That these changes
................. No one will notice.
Or maybe there is no heaven
................... And no sea too,
Everything around - happiness
.......................... They can get drunk,
quirkiness of the world
.................. Feel the skin,
Absorb blue
................... And bird soar.
hope Kaposhko

Aqua, monotonously, like twins, sea and sky, now look at each other's eyes, so extraordinarily beautiful, surprising admiring audiences for his portrayal of colors, in the interval between the wind and sailing-clouds. What kind of weather inside of them at this moment, when they are joined together in such harmony with one another?

Maybe they just admire each other, and formed two parallel illustrious - beautiful fabrics, from which it is impossible to take your eyes where Xin and Vys sent to Earth his mystical wave of sentiment,
charging all around the elegant touch of the Rapture, in which shone and our mood ...
as if we are told: "Admire each other as admire the heavens and the sea, and let it be a beautiful world!" (? Valentine Marchenko)

by   Fabian Perez At the Door VII

Long ago in ancient times, God asked the angels, "Where to hide the secret of life?". Angel offered to hide deep in the Secret Sea. God said, "It would be too easy. Come a day when they get to the deepest ocean and sea oplyvut all."

Then the angels offered to hide the secrets of life in the Mother Earth. God said, "And it would be too easy. Once they pass over the whole world and digging up the whole earth." After a moment of silence angels offered to hide it on top of the highest mountain.

God said, "The day will come, and they will take on all the mountains of the world." If the mystery of life can not be hidden or in the sea or in the Mother Earth, or in the mountains, where then you can hide it? Can be the star?

After a short silence, God said: "People get to the four parts of the world, to the deepest seas and the highest mountains, and to the stars before to know ourselves, so mystery of life must be hidden in them."

Artist Alexander Pavlenko

Marcia Baldwin Paintings

Marcia Baldwin