Wanawake wawili wanakumbatiana, shavu kwa shavu.
Biblia katika sanaa · Ruth
Naomi na Wakwe Zake
Gustave Doré · 1866 (designs for La Sainte Bible, Tours); this printing 1873–1874
Maktaba ya Taifa ya Poland, Warsaw
Doré alitia sahihi kwenye picha hii chini upande wa kushoto na kampuni ya wachongaji Pannemaker-Doms upande wa kulia. Karibu nusu yake ni anga tupu, iliyochongwa kwa mistari mirefu na sawa ya mlalo inayoupa ukurasa utulivu wake.
Juu ya kilima kitupu juu ya bonde pana lenye mto unaopindapinda, wanawake wawili wamekumbatiana kwa karibu, shavu kwa shavu. Mbali kidogo, wa tatu anaondoka uso wake umefichwa mkononi. Hakuna kingine kinachosonga; mwanga hafifu na nchi tupu vinafanya kuagana huko kuwe kimya sana.
Kutoka maandiko
- “Oripa alimuaga kwa kumbusu, lakini Ruth aliendelea kubaki naye” (Ruth 1:14)
- “Mwenzako amerudi kwa watu wake” (Ruth 1:15)
- “Uendako, nitakwenda” (Ruth 1:16)
Ubunifu wa msanii
- Oripa akiondoka na uso wake mkononi — maandiko yanasema tu kwamba wote walilia
- Bonde pana la mto linaloonekana kutoka kilimani
- Majoho marefu yenye kofia kwa wanawake wote watatu
Maelezo ya karibu
Ruth na Naomi
Oripa
Anageuka, akilia, kurudi nyumbani.
Bonde
Mto unapindapinda katika uwanda chini ya kilima.
Gustave Doré, French, 1832–1883. National Library of Poland (Biblioteka Narodowa), Warsaw — «Pismo Święte Starego i Nowego Testamentu», vol. 1, Warsaw: M. Glücksberg, 1873 (acc. 75.267 A), tabl. 71 · 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.