Articles related to "Christian Art"

The violet is revered for its beauty and its spiritual significance and is a symbol for humility.

Jeremy Casella shows that Christians can make art just as well as everybody else with his newest CD, Recovery.

Religious symbols often include common elements of life and nature like flowers, plants, fruits, and trees.

Christian art colleges help artists further their interest in the arts through the celebration of God's creation. Learn more about the top colleges in the country.

Pictures can succeed where words might fail and can make religious concepts more thoroughly and easily grasped when they are used in paintings.

Religious instruction can be gained from common elements of life like birds found in paintings.

The dolphin, ape, ermine, stag, rabbit, donkey, camel, fox, and rat represent hidden meanings in Medieval and Renaissance paintings.

From little-known "outsider artists" to Colin McCahon and Frieda Kahlo, painters and sculptors in the 20th and 21st century have redefined religious art.

The bat, the toad, the hedgehog, and the pig are symbols of evil or gluttony in Western art.

The carnation and the poppy have been revered for their beauty and given symbolic meanings since ancient times.

Americans are notoriously indifferent to art until it offends them. Two sculptures of Jesus are in the headlines. It must be Easter time.

The rose in art is revered for its beauty and its religious significance.

White trumpet lilies are the quintessential flowers of Easter and resurrection. Ancient traditions are replete with their symbolism of hope, purity, and eternal life

Letters of early-19th-century Korean Choson Dynasty art screen resemble medieval historiated initials of illuminated manuscripts in their similar symbolic embellishments.

St. Anselm is one of only five of the 33 'Doctors of the Church' who were named so without a formal decree by the pope or a council.

Mellifluous has the definition of being like honey - sweet and smooth.

One of the three requirements for a 'Doctor of the Church' is heroic sanctity.

One of the three requirements for a 'Doctor of the Church' is a papal or council decree.

How were angels depicted in early Christian art? Why were they used on icons from Byzantine Egypt?

"Girls in Pearls" examines the history, cultivation, symbolism and wearing of pearls through paintings, prints, drawings and photographs.

Indigo dye in crystallized form is a safer, neater alternative to woad for recreating the body designs said to be worn by the ancient Celts.

The art of the Middle Ages was subordinated to the Christian experience on an everyday level and helped to educate illiterate peasants about their faith and cosmology.

World Civilization was radically changed by two great movements as a result of man's thirst for knowledge. They brought about the Age of Exploration.

The iris, worthy candidate for queen of flowers.

In present-day Istanbul lies a magnificent church which possesses a history which embodies the very definition of the phrase "East meets West."

From Glendalough to the Mountains of Mourne, from Cashel to Achill Island, from Croagh Patrick to the Giant's Causeway, H.V.Morton's travel book on Ireland has it all.