Amesimama akitupa mgongo, kitambaa kichwani.
Biblia katika sanaa · Luka
Yesu pamoja na Martha na Mariamu
Gustave Doré · 1866 (designs for La Sainte Bible, Tours); this printing 1873–1874
Maktaba ya Taifa ya Poland, Warsaw
Karakana ya Pannemaker, mmoja wa wachongaji wa mbao wakuu wa Paris, ilichonga mchoro huu kwa ajili ya Biblia ya 1866; jina limechapishwa chini upande wa kulia.
Yesu ameketi kando ya mlango ulio wazi katika chumba cha chini chenye paa la boriti, bustani angavu ya mitende ikiwa nyuma yake. Mariamu ameketi ardhini karibu, kichwa chake kimefunikwa, akisikiliza. Martha amesimama upande wa kushoto akitupa mgongo, gudulia mkononi, nusu kivulini. Doré anaruhusu mwanga wa mchana kuingia kupitia mlango na kuwaangukia Yesu na Mariamu.
Kutoka maandiko
- “Mwanamke mmoja jina lake Martha alimkaribisha nyumbani kwake” (Luka 10:38)
- Mariamu “aliekaa miguuni pa Bwana na kusikiliza neno lake” (Luka 10:39)
- “Martha alijipa shughuli nyingi za kuandaa mlo” (Luka 10:40)
Ubunifu wa msanii
- Martha anaonekana kwa nyuma, na gudulia, kana kwamba ametoka kazini punde
- Mitende na mwanga wa jua kupitia mlango wa chumba chenye giza chenye boriti
Maelezo ya karibu
Martha ameshika gudulia akiliegemeza ukutani.
Ameketi kando ya mlango na kufungua mkono wake anaponena.
Amejifunika kichwa, ameketi ardhini na mikono pajani, akisikiliza.
Gustave Doré, French, 1832–1883. National Library of Poland (Biblioteka Narodowa), Warsaw — «Pismo Święte Starego i Nowego Testamentu», vol. 2, Warsaw: M. Glücksberg, 1874 (acc. 75.267 A) · Wood engraving after Gustave Doré’s design · National Library of Poland (Polona): the record of the volume gives the licence «Domena Publiczna» (Public Domain), «copyrightProtected»: false; the scan was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by the library itself («Polona Upload», GLAM-Wiki partnership: “This file was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of a GLAM-Wiki partnership between the National Library of Poland and Wikimedia Polska”), linking its Polona record.
