Sub Rosa
- Category:
- Artwork
- Medium:
- Acrylic painting on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30" x 40"
- Date:
- 2006
A small portion of what's going on in my head.
The title Sub Rosa means "secretly, privately, or confidentially".
Sub rosa comes from the Latin, literally "under the rose," from the ancient association of the rose with confidentiality, the origin of which traces to a famous story in which Cupid gave Harpocrates, the god of silence, a rose to bribe him not to betray the confidence of Venus. Hence the ceilings of Roman banquet-rooms were decorated with roses to remind guests that what was spoken sub vino (under the influence of wine) was also sub rosa. Taken from Dictionary.com
"For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man"
- Rom. 8:3