Imagen de Santa Filomena

Es imposible saber como lucía una persona que vivio en el año 300, ya que la fotografia fue descubierta 1500 años despues y en esa epoca aun no se acostumbraba retratarse en una pintura, incluso a personas que tuvieron un cargo publico solo se les hacia esculturas, mosaicos o medallas, por eso ni siquiera sabemos como lucian emperadores y monarcas de esa epoca.
En la devoción a los santos tenemos imagenes que representan a la persona de acuerdo a una forma idealizada y se incuyen simbolos que le identifican plenamente como a san Judas Tadeo, Santa Rita de Casia, etc.
En el caso de Santa Filomena se sabe que era una niña de 13 años, que murio virgen, que debe haber sido muy bella para que Dioclesiano haya puesto sus hojos en ella, que fue martirizada por su fe Cristiana y se conocen las piedras de la lapida de su tumba con los simbolos de su martirio y virtud, asi que desde el comienzo de la devoción por esta Santita se ha incluido dentro de las imagenes para representarla algunos simbolos como el ancla, la palma, las azucenas o lirios y las flechas, ademas de representarla dentro de una celda esto de acuerdo a su cautiverio, martirio y muerte.
La imagen utilizada aqui es una mezcla computarizada de dos de las mas populares imagenes actualmente en uso, se utilizo la imagen realizada en el 1961 por la pintora húngara Feszty Masa nacida en Budapest (foto 2) y la imagen utilizada por The Universal Living Rosary Association con sede en Dikinson Texas (foto 3), ambas bellisimas imagenes por si mismas, pero la intencion era unificar la imagen que se difunde de nuestra amada Santa.
La mezcla se realizo en el programa Photoshop cambiando transparencias a distinto porcentaje hasta llegar a la imagen final cuidando de no eliminara ni una ni otra sino que al verla nos diera la impresion de estar frente a cualquiera de ellas, la tunica se cambio por blanca simbolo de pureza ademas una capa rosa simbolo de su estatus de princesa, la aureola se hizo transparente, se conservaron las flores de la segunda pintura y se proporcionaron aun mas las manos y algunas facciones de acuerdo a su edad adolescente y mostrar aun su paz espiritual, asi como su inocencia en su expresión, despues de completar esa tarea fue pintada de nuevo usando el programa Corel Painter IX. todo esto se hizo esperando que los devotos puedan sentir su fuerte prescencia al contemplar de frente su retrato.

Saint Philomena's Image

Is Impossible to know how a person who lived in the year 300AD looked like, because photography was discovered 1500 years later in Europe and in those days people did not had their portraits painted, even the emperors and monarchs only had their portraits made as sculptures or medals, so we don’t even really know how they really looked like.
In devotion to our Saints we see Images representing them as an ideal form but including symbols to identify them fully as examples: (St Jude, St, Rita of Cascia, etc.)

In Saint Philomena’s case we know several facts: she was a thirteen year old virgin, she must have been very Beautiful in order to make Diocletian obsessed with her, that she was martyred for her Christian faith and we know the stones of her grave, they contain very important information about her martyrdom and virtues. so since the beginning of the devotion to our little Saint, images of her show some symbols such as the anchor, the palm, the lilies (symbol of purity and chastity), the arrows, most of the images show her inside her cell to remember her captivity.

The image here is a computerized mix of two of the most popular images in our days, part of the image belongs to the 1961 painting made by Hungarian artist Feszty Masa from Budapest (photo2) and parts comes from the image used by The Universal Living Rosary Association of Dikinson Texas (photo 3) both very beautiful images, but our task was to unify them in one image of our beloved Saint.

The mix was done with the help of Adobe Photoshop application changing the opacity or transparency of the two paintings in different percentages until a final Image was reached, taking care of not eliminate one or the other but to give the impression of being in front of any of them, the dress was changed to white, symbol of purity and chastity and also a pink cape added to show her royal origin, the shining of the head was made translucent, we keep the flowers in her hair but the hands size was reduced and some of the face features were also modified in order to maintain a teen aspect but still showing spiritual peace and innocence in her expression.
after all that was completed, it was repainted in Corel Painter IX software.
All that hoping that devotees can feel her strong presence in front of the portrait.