Painting - Mary M @ Jesus Feet

[hobius]

I am certainly a novice, and no very little about all this "stuff."
However, some time ago I saw a documentary which highlighted a painting of the crucifixation that only showed Mary M(I think) at the Feet of Jesus on the Cross. The feet of Jesus represented a point in a pentagram which extended to the walls of the building.

This is my memory... not sure how accurate it is... anyway it has been driving me crazy to find an image of that painting. Does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks for your help.

[Don Barone]

Hi hobius and welcome !

Firstly the pentagram shape was probably placed over the painting by a researcher and for the moment I am drawing a blank on who might have done this although I have done this to the following painting of The Crucifiction by Teniers.



Below are a couple of others I found on Google. Is there anything else you can tell us about the painting ?

dancepassions.blogspot.com/

travel.webshots.com/photo/2145640660046821461ZhxRzC

lycee.diderot.lyon.free.fr/dossiers/FETE_BTS/crucifiction.JPG


Best Regards
Don Barone

[hobius]

Thanks for the reply...

I am going off of a fuzzy memory, but the one thing I do remember is that the only portion of Jesus which was visible were his feet. This detail is what made it stick in my mind, because the viewer can't actually see Jesus, just his feet. The focus is on Mary Magdalene(I think).

Then again, I suppose it is entirely possible my brain invented this memory, but I just can't get it out of my head. I am pretty sure the "show" was produced by the BBC, and I think it made prior to 1990.

Again, fuzzy memory, but I think the "theme" of the show was the use of the Pentagram as a symbol of power within Christian inspired art, and how sub-sets of the early(ier) church were pagans under the guise of Christianity. All of this somehow tied with the Knights Templar, and I seem to remember something to do with Baphomet.

Really, I know this is vague...

[spaceyhippie]

well, thingies like that...
if there's anything to em, actually...
woulda been shoved under some dusty thingy quietly
...like immediately...
so that when other thingies come out...
say... pre-written-off conspiracy movies
...instead of puttin themselves together
...almost sposedly naturally slash easily
...occasional sillies... assorted randomly
spose they must be imagining thingies
o ye novice get ye googling
...n then do the diagraming