The book FLOS SANCTORUM of Spanish origin, would have a special fertility when got to inspire Ignatius of Loyola which in its turn would create a
Powerful Company of Jesus. Em 1513 was Published the Portuguese Edition of the FLOS SANCTORUM , which was not a literal translation of the
other previous versions and also have a great fertility.
500 Years later in 2013, the Flowers of the Portuguese Helena Amaral will try to commemorate the version National publication of the Flos Sanctorum.
Sketch of Helena Amaral when studied Decorative Arts With Master Isolino Vaz (c. 1962)
Introduction
Some FLOWERS of Renaissance
Chapter 1
ST. ANTHONY makes FLOWERS in Italy
Chapter 2
FLOWERS crossing Oceans
Chapter 3
IGNATIUS
Chapter 4
Dessert
Index of Illustrations
Some FLOWERS of Renaissance
IGNATIUS LOYOLA , after reading the FLOS SANCTORUM has experienced a Rebirth by resorting to a Glorious life in which He founded the COMPANY OF JESUS .
Later on, a member of of that Organization the Scholar FATHER ANTHONY VIEIRA DISTINGUISHED AS VIEIRA would say " SAINT IGNATIUS was the FRUIT of FLOS SANCTORUM . FLOS SANCTORUM was the FLOWER, SAINT IGNATIUS was the FRUIT."
F LOS SANCTORUM was the life and works of DISTINGUISHED SAINTS and in a curious sort of FLOWERS , their glorious deeds ( MIRACLES ) .
The FLOS SANCTORUM " FLOWER OF SAINTS" was without a doubt a Masterpiece and inspires fulfilling the Avant-Garde tradition of the Season, the Renaissance.
The 2013 epic for the HELENA Flowers began as the Renaissance, in Firenze where - during the participation in the Exhibition of Florence Luci e Colori Hotel Domus Florentiae - received the Criticism of Alfonso Confalone
Toscana Oggi , Firenze, 20 Gennaio 2013 ,
"La Portoghese Helena Amaral che fa fiorire i sogni."
"The Portuguese Helena Amaral who makes flourish the dreams" That Criticism would inspire me deeply, linking the FLOWERS OF HELENA to the World of Dreams or Visions.
500 years later, the Portuguese Edition of the FLOS SANCTORUM is commemorated and illustrated in an expressive manner by the Miraculous HELENA FLOWERS. Helena Amaral who is not need strange to TRANSCENDENT VISIONS .
0.Vision of ST. ANTHONY with The BOY
( Author's Note: June 13, 1996, I was in Napoli (Italy) - to receive the Prize for Painting in Sezione Avanguardia by Accademia d' Europe - when I went from a Boat ride a few ladies have offered me some prayers for a SAINT that was neither more nor less ST. ANTHONY of Portugal. It seemed to me totally unexpected see ST. ANTHONY popular, in that place so remote.
Mário Fortunato
).
ST. ANTHONY although born in Portugal and wanting to go to Morocco, was led by forces of fate to Sicily, starting with his life of Glorious in that would most of the time in Italy. ST. ANTHONY arrived to visit his master St. FRANCIS in ASSISI. At this time St. FRANCIS still lived, the MOUNTAIN OF ASSISI had a certain SACRED power. Following the tradition - RELIGION - Jewish, CHRISTIAN and BUDDHIST was a place of Transcendence somehow connected to PARADISE .
As his Master - St. FRANCIS ASSISI - also ST. ANTHONY did a sermon on the Fish that They applauded and that was one of his first MIRACLES . The march 15, 1513 was published the Portuguese Version of the FLOS SANCTORUM , almost 500 years later, (On 13 March 2013) a Jesuit priest, Bishop Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio would be elected POPE, taking the name of SAN FRANCISCO). The already luminous city of ASSISI has acquired a new LIGHT and euphoria Cultural .
In june 2013 FLOWERS OF HELENA participated in an exhibition in ASSISI, which would have much success and inspiration:
" LA LUCE NELL'ARTE, NEL DIALOGO DELLA PACE" ,
PALAZZO COMUNALE ,
PIAZZA DEL COMUNE ,ASSISI , 8 - 16 GIUGNO 2013
Maritime Visions of ST. ANTHONY
1. SAINT ANTHONY observing the Sea in Portugal before their Epic and making the Sermon of Fish in Italy
In 1220, ST. ANTHONY had a beginning of his Glorious life, very bumpy. He initially had no intention of going on Mission to Morocco, but the fury of Nature - which included Sea storms and Malaria which suffered in Morocco - led to Sicily. Thus the Fury of Nature led SANTO ANToNIO toward a Glorious life. The Fury of the Sea, which by 1220 led SAINT Anthony of Morocco to Sicily - at the beginning of his Missionary life - takes it later in the Future.
Thus ST. Anthony would travel the Epics Were Portuguese Maritime, and more particularly to the 16th century and 17th the huge travel of JESUITS (among whom St. FRANCIS XAVIER and FATHER ANONIO VIEIRA ).
Participation of the HELENA FLOWERS in the collective exhibition in New York, Amsterdam Whitney Galler y , OCTOBER 4- NOVEMBER 5, 2013
In 2012-2013, Helena Amaral has returned to work with a Gallery in New York (USA), after 1995-97 in which he had entered in events of Montserrat Gallery . The Amsterdam Whitney Gallery - located in the neighborhood of Chelsea, one of the most Prestigious in the world of Painting - had an appreciable logistics that included the production of excellent Magazines ( Art Acquisitor ) and Artistic Calendars .
" By emphasizing the immediacy of the artwork and highlighting the visceral experience of the viewer, Helena Amaral uniquely merges the transcendent mysticism of pure color with forces of nature, a connection that is frequently overlooked within today's technology-based society.
"
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery , the Participation of the HELENA FLOWERS in the collective exhibition in OCTOBER 4- NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Vision of ST FRANCIS XAVIER at Sea while protecting the Boat where he went the FATHER ANÓNIO VIEIRA of a storm
2.1. Vision of the FATHER ANTÓNIO VIEIRA evoking ST FRANCIS XAVIER for protecting the Boat where he travelled from a storm. SAN FRANCICO XAVIER attracts a thunderclap to the sea. In the end a strange St. Elmo' s fire is released from the boat by the mast
Inigo de Loyola only' d change your name to 40 years (in Paris) , 1531 by Ignatius (Ignatius ) which means "the fire" , or "ignition".
After that, his life his life won great fertility. As soon As in 1534 succeeded to get to convince some more 6 powerful elements * and Founded the COMPANY OF JESUS . Subsequently get to convince the POPE in 1538 and the King of Portugal D. John III in 1540.
* Pedro Fabro , the only Priest of the group , Francisco Xavier , Alfonso Salmeron , Diego Laynez e Nicolau Bobedilla , Spanish e Simão Rodrigues , Portuguese .
Ignatius of Loyola would go to Rome in 1538 to provide support to the POPE and not suspended its pilgrimage on Earth (in 1556), before the COMPANY OF JESUS founded Colleges in Portugal, India and Brazil .
The Flowers of Helena took part in 2013:
1 - Salon Art Shopping au Salon Carrousel du Louvre , Paris, 25-27 ottobre 2013
2- Cover of the Newspaper As Artes entre as Letras , Porto, Portugal ,
1/11/2013
3 - GALERIA DELLA PIGNA - PALAZZO MAFFEI MARESCOTTI
PALAZZO PONTIFICIO VIA DELLA PIGNA 13/ A
ROMA ( ZONE PANTHEON-LARGO ARGENTINA) ( H 16-20 TODOS LOS DIAS NO FIESTAS)
9-19 NOVIEMBRE 2013
(Memories of the Author
Once, on a night of passage of year hit a candle and a blaze has invaded my body. My Father Prof. Soares Fortunato, who was next to me grabbed a newspaper and with him, blew out the Fire .
The Master Helena Amaral when I was very young boy told me many times the following story "was once a boy who was always complaining of his Mother by this have their hands dark. However once there was a fire and the boy was rescued by his mother who played the hands to the fire. Since then, the boy never stopped to praise the beautiful hands of his Mother."
Mário David Cardoso Fortunato )
Vision of SAINT IGNATIUS
3.1.
Vision of IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA descending the stairs of Montmartre coming to greet the painter Helena Amaral .
is released fire, I am shaken but rescued from ready by my Father Prof. Soares Fortunato and my familiar Master Helena Amaral .
At the VATICAN Statue of INÁCIO LOYOLA presents us the FLOS SANCTORUM
( Author's Note
The name Jesuit brings me sweet memories, is associated with a famous Portuguese Cake, perhaps there has been is one of the reasons why I reminded them instinctively well this name over the times.
Mário David Cardoso Fortunato
)
• In Santo Tirso (25 km north of Porto, land of Jesuit Cakes) the Calendar of the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery 2013 with FLOWERS OF HELENA would have a presence at the Feast of the Camellia * .
• This event took place at 9 /03/2013 - 10 /03/2013 , almost 500 years after the publication of the English Edition of the FLOS SANCTORUM
* The genre (Camelia) was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linne in his work magna Species Plantarum , and so designated in honor of the Jesuit Missionary Georg Kamel .
(
The Sweets of HELENA
As many RELIGIOUS FIGURES , also the painter Helena Amaral used very frequently, that sweet provided a great pleasure very my memory. The premieres of their Exhibitions, the sweet had a presence granted. I remember eating some excellent chocolates in Vigo - in rainy late afternoon 19:00 h to 19 January 1996- when she presented with all the pomp, the work " Are roses My LORD!" inspired in the QUEEN SANTA ISABEL."
Mário David Cardoso Fortunato
)
By 1991, it was published in Spain Barcelona by magazine Gal Art ( Barcelona, Spain) a Postcard from a work of Helena Amaral "ARE roses My LORD! ". Instrument that would be presented at an Exhibition in Vigo (Spain) in January 1996. About 500 years after having been a version (Spanish) of FLOS SANCTORUM (1493) in the city of Burgos.
4. "THEY ARE roses My LORD! "- Helena Amaral 1991
Oil on canvas , 97 x1 30 cm
Cover
JESUS - Helena Amaral , c. 1962
Sketch Crayon in paper , 28x20 cm
0.
Overlap of
- ROSES FIRENZE - Helena Amaral 2012 ,
Olio in Canvas, 25 x 30 cm
in
- SANTO ANTHONY with BOY- Mário Fortunato 2013
Oil Pastel on paper , 28x20 cm
1.
- ROSES OF ASSIS - Helena Amaral , 2013
Óleo em tela, 44x18 cm
SANTO ANTHONY observing the Sea before is epic - Mário Fortunato 2013
Oil Pastel on paper , 28x20 cm
SUNFLOWERS OF ASSIS - Helena Amaral , 2013
Oil on Canvas , 33x24 cm
SANTO ANTHONY Making the Fish Sermon - Mário Fortunato 2013
Oil pastel on paper , 28x20 cm
2.
NY SUNFLOWERS - Helena Amaral , 2013
Oil on Canvas, 30x20 cm
FATHER ANÓNIO VIEIRA prays for DIVINE PROTECTION against a Sea Storm - Mário Fortunato , 2013
Oil Pastel on paper, 28x20 cm
NY ROSES - Helena Amaral , 2011
Oil on Canvas, 33x24 cm
ST FRANCIS XAVIER drives a thunder to the sea - Mário Fortunato 2013
Oil Pastel on paper, 28x20 cm
NY CAMELLIAS - Helena Amaral , 2013
Oil on Canvas, 24x16 cm
St Elmo Fire -
Mário Fortunato 2013,
Oil Pastel on paper , 28x20 cm
3.
ROSAS (CARLA BRUNI) - Helena Amaral 2011
Oil on canvas , 27x19 cm
Vision of INÁCIO DE LOYOLA in Montmartre - Mário Fortunato 2013
Oil Pastel on paper , 28x20 cm
ROSAS AMARELAS - Helena Amaral 2012
Oil on canvas, 24x20 cm
Vision of Fire - Mário Fortunato 2013
Oil Pastel on paper , 28x20 cm
ROSES BLANC- Helena Amaral 2013
27x18.5 cm
em
The Statue of INÁCIO DE LOYOLA presents the FLOS SANCTORUM - Mário Fortunato 2013
Oil Pastel on paper , 28x20 cm
4. "SÃO ROSAS SENHOR" - Helena Amaral c. 1991
Óleo em tela, 97 x1 30 cm
Back Cover:
Sketch of Statue of S. FRANCISO XAVIER (bought in 2013 in a shop in the Rua da Torrinha, Porto)- Mário Fortunato , 2013
Oil Pastel on paper , 28x20 cm
Back Cover
Drawing of Jesus Cristo - Helena Amaral, c. 1964
The book FLOS SANCTORUM of Spanish origin, would have a special fertility when got to inspire Ignatius of Loyola which in its turn would create a
Powerful Company of Jesus. Em 1513 was Published the Portuguese Edition of the Flos Sanctorum, which was not a literal translation of the
other previous versions and also have a great fertility.
500 Years later in 2013, the Flowers of the Portuguese Helena Amaral will try to commemorate the version National publication of the FLOS SANCTORUM.