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HI Luis,
To me there is so much mystery in his paintings. Like this one, what is he trying to tell? Was it a dream or what? Why the light at only one spot, and to the left a building. It looks a little mixed up to me, I just wonder what he was thinking when he painted this, with the title of The Mircle.
The Miracle. Messias Series. 1923. Tempera on canvas. 73.6x208.9 cm.
Sorry for the delay in replying, Myrna.
I too am intrigued by this painting. My guess is it represents a great miracle in the course of a travel to a distant place, like the Light that Saul saw just before he became a believer. The fact that the painting is part of a 'Messias Series' reinforces, in my opinion, such a guess. On the other hand, the miracle could have been one that Nicholas Roerich wittnessed himself; he was such a mystic, in fact a prophet and a visionary, that such possibility cannot be disregarded.
As to the building to the left I am not so sure it really is a building; the painting is ambiguous as to what it really portraits, as are most of Roerich's paintings where you, for example, see human faces, fabulous animals and other things in the clouds and the mountains.
Thanks for contributing this enigma; I love enigmas. Lol
Miguel
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