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Anyone who has looked even casually at books of art history surely has noticed how the religious paintings and sculptures that flowed strongly through past centuries slow to a trickle in our period.
Religious art is all about teaching those principles. Even when religious overtones may not be apparent in the art, some viewers might pick up on it.
Forty-five paintings and tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, which have never before left Europe, are on exhibit in the Michener Museum’s “Offering of the Angels: Treasures ...
Artists may be privately religious, take inspiration from art of the religious past, create work for churches and do a lot of seemingly religious things.
If you would like to visit the Buffalo Religious Art Center, the best way would be to book a tour which can be done by calling (716) 481-2350, visiting www.buffaloreligiousarts.org or their ...
Great works of Christian art have taken on a new meaning, or function, for those of us appalled to find ourselves entering a new era of religious warfare more than two centuries after the ...
Release date: November 18, 2014. In this program presented on March 29, 2009, a panel of distinguished museum directors and theologians discussed the roles that secular and religious art museums can ...
Detail of Michelangelo’s fresco “Ignudi” on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City (c. 1508–12) (image via Wikimedia Commons). This made the Christian church an incredibly queer ...
Religious art discovered alive! As S. Brent Plate finds: "Dig around in art, and we find religion. Dig around in religion, and we find art." Martin E. Marty. February 2, 2017 ...
I might call it "art about a religious subject" -- but that's not the same thing. I just wish that today's religious art had more art in it, and today's secular art had more God in it.
Hessink’s Fine Art Auctioneers invites collectors and art enthusiasts to its upcoming Religious Art Auction, taking place on 17 May 2025 at 11:00 AM in Beek, Limburg, Netherlands. This curated event ...