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Windows to Heaven: The significance of Icons in religious art
Icons in religious art hold profound significance, serving as windows to the divine and channels for spiritual connection. Rooted in Eastern Christianity, particularly the Byzantine tradition, these sacred images portray holy figures such as Christ, the Virgin Mary, saints, and angels.
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Masterpieces of Faith: The Eternal Presence of Christ in Art
From Byzantine mosaics to Renaissance masterpieces and contemporary interpretations, artists have portrayed Christ in diverse ways, capturing his divinity, compassion, and teachings.
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Divine Depictions: The Christ in Art Through the Ages
Since the dawn of Christianity, artists have been fascinated and stirred by the figure of Christ. His likeness appears in frescoes on the walls of catacombs that date from Roman times; he is featured in the stained glass windows of Gothic churches; and he can be found in various forms in today’s pop culture.
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Death in Art: A Profound Exploration of the Inevitable
Artists across time have grappled with the concept of death, producing works that range from poignant reflections on the transience of life to powerful symbols of rebirth and transformation.
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The Virgin: Masterpieces of Spiritual Beauty, Devotion and Grace
The presence of Mary within Western civilization has a long theological history of transformation. Scholars concur that during early Christianity there were other paramount feminine faces of spirituality, such as Sophia, who was understood to be the feminine aspect of the complex Christian God.
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Congratulations on your birthday, Raphael!
Raphael (1483-1520), the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, was a genius in and ahead of his time. Together with Michelangelo and da Vinci, he formed the classical trinity of this era and elaborated a rich style of harmony and geometry.
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The Virgin Mary from Early Medieval to Early Modern Art
This religious scene showcases a mother and her son, sometimes accompanied by other protagonists. Originally distant and formal, the relationship between the two figures was expressed with tendernessat the end of the Middle Ages and became more human.
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Raphael – The genius painter and architect of the High Renaissance
As one of the great masters of the Renaissance and artist to European royalty and the Papal court in Rome, his works comprise various themes of theology and philosophy, including but not limited to famous illustrations of the Madonna.
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The Art of the Eternal – In search of the expression of the infinite
An unlimited source of inspiration where artists can search for the expression of the infinite, death remains the object of numerous rich illustrations, as various as they are mysterious. In this work, Victoria Charles analyses how, through the centuries, art has become the reflection of these interrogations linked to mankind’s fate and the hereafter.
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A representative selection of ICONS from the 11th century to the late Baroque period
This art is appealing because of its great openness to other influences – the obedience to the rules of Orthodox Christianity in its early stages, the borrowing from Roman heritage or later to the Western breakthroughs – combined with a never compromised assertion of a distinctly Slavic soul and identity.
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