Passion Flower
by Anne Cameron Cutri
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30.000 x 30.000 x 1.500 inches
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Title
Passion Flower
Artist
Anne Cameron Cutri
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This was painted from a wild passion flower in the field behind my house at the time. I've always liked this flower but even more so when I found out about the symbolism around this flower and the derivation of it's name.
The "Passion" in "passion flower" does not refer to sex and love, however, but to the passion of Jesus in Christian theology. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries adopted the unique physical structures of this plant, particularly the numbers of its various flower parts, as symbols of the last days of Jesus and especially his crucifixion:
* The pointed tips of the leaves were taken to represent the Holy Lance.
* The tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ.
* The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (less St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer).
* The flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the crown of thorns.
* The chalice-shaped ovary with its receptacle represents a hammer or the Holy Grail
* The 3 stigmata represent the 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them the 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance).
* The blue and white colors of many species' flowers represent Heaven and Purity.
The flower has been given names related to this symbolism throughout Europe since that time. In Spain, it is known as espina de Cristo ("Christ's thorn"). German names[11] include Christus-Krone ("Christ's crown"), Christus-Strauss ("Christ's bouquet"[12]), Dorn-Krone ("crown of thorns"), Jesus-Leiden ("Jesus' passion"), Marter ("passion"[13]) or Muttergottes-Stern ("Mother of God's star"[14]).
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April 18th, 2010
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Frank J Casella
Anne -- CONGRATULATIONS!! Your beautiful artwork has been Featured by the - CATHOLIC ART GALLERY - Fine Art Group on FineArtAmerica! Thank you for sharing it !!