Search results for "Early Christian Art" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 – October 23, 1957), was one of ... his real aspirations lay with studying Fine Art. In 1928, his father gave ...
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  • In the early church, the Alpha-and-Omega symbol became Christ's ... passed down from the synagogue into the early church through the Book of ...
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  • of a fish, said to have been used by early Christians as a secret symbol ... ===Ichthus as a Christian symbol=== ====Symbolic meaning==== ...
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  • "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... It was a rejection of the accustomed role of art, since the Counter-Reformation ...
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  • Category:Art [[Image:Chauvethorses.jpg|thumb|right|Drawing of horses ... one of the most significant prehistoric art sites. The cave was first ...
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  • The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art ... symbolize life and immortality. In Egyptian art, gods were sometimes portrayed ...
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  • Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... jpg|thumb|right|220px|Baptism in early Christian art.]] ...
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  • methodology of iconography, principally in art history; for other uses of ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...
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  • He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term ... unambiguously dominated by the work of Christian Wolff, whose philosophical ...
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  • A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, ... life painting has been part of China's art history as well. In Korea ...
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  • as the greatest Russian painter of the Art Nouveau movement, an art movement ... he went to Venice to study medieval Christian art. It was here that, ...
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  • is a ring of light used in religious art, sculpture, and iconography ... The use of halos in art has been found in diverse religious traditions ...
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  • capital city of Ptolemaic Egypt. This pre-Christian group of Jewish ascetics ... ancient world, and healing was seen as a religious art. ...
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  • times in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Book of Revelation, as ... depictions of cherubim in western art. As most English speakers ...
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  • A relief is a sculptured art work in which figures are either carved ... but there are a few exceptions in Greek art and in the decorative work ...
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  • Apostles before his death, according to Christian tradition. Described in ... The Last Supper is particularly important in Christian tradition as ...
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  • some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 ... began in 366 C.E., as places to store scriptures and art. ...
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  • architecture that first appeared in Christian churches around the fifth ... the Influence of Stage Architecture upon the Art of Antioch," The Journal ...
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  • popular religious tools, used within the Christian traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy ... traditions of Western European religious art are largely lacking in Russia ...
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  • Saint Barbara (d. c. 306 C.E.) was a Christian saint and martyr who ... she was often depicted in important works of art. She was invoked against the ...
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