Ode to Leon Bonnat I

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat

1833-1922 French Painter Influenced:

Gustave Caillebotte, Frederic Vinton, Raoul Dufy, George Burroughs Torrey

Ode to Bonnat as an extraordinary Classical Narrative Painter.

Cain, committing the first murder by killing his brother, Abel was the first human to ever die. Cain is mentioned as Adam and Eve's first child; thus, Cain, according to Scripture, was the first human ever born.

Job's is a blessed man who lives righteously. At the suggestion of God and the will of God, Satan challenges Job's integrity, proposing to God that Job serves him simply because God protects him. God removes Job's protection, allowing Satan to take his wealth, his children, and his physical health in order to tempt Job to curse God. Despite his difficult circumstances, he does not curse God, but rather curses the day of his birth. And although he protests his plight and pleads for an explanation, he stops short of accusing God of injustice.

Ode to Leon Bonnat II

" Le Martyre de Saint Denis" By Bonnat

Denis, having alarmed the pagan priests by his many conversions, was executed by beheading on the highest hill in Paris (now Montmartre), which was likely to have been a druidic holy place. After his head was chopped off, Denis is said to have picked it up and walked six miles to the summit of Mont Mars (now Montmartre), preaching a sermon the entire way.

"Jacob wrestling with the Angel" By Bonnat

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak."
But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
The man asked him, "What is your name?"
"Jacob," he answered.
Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, [e] because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."