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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 ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- of a fish, said to have been used by early Christians as a secret symbol ... ===Ichthus as a Christian symbol=== ====Symbolic meaning==== ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... It was a rejection of the accustomed role of art, since the Counter-Reformation ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- Category:Art [[Image:Chauvethorses.jpg|thumb|right|Drawing of horses ... one of the most significant prehistoric art sites. The cave was first ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art ... symbolize life and immortality. In Egyptian art, gods were sometimes portrayed ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... jpg|thumb|right|220px|Baptism in early Christian art.]] ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- methodology of iconography, principally in art history; for other uses of ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term ... unambiguously dominated by the work of Christian Wolff, whose philosophical ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- Christ, and is traditionally used as a Christian symbol. Different types ... teachings of Jesus Christ as well as the Christian Church. In the early years ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- 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, ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 17:54, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- capital city of Ptolemaic Egypt. This pre-Christian group of Jewish ascetics ... ancient world, and healing was seen as a religious art. ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- times in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Book of Revelation, as ... depictions of cherubim in western art. As most English speakers ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- Apostles before his death, according to Christian tradition. Described in ... The Last Supper is particularly important in Christian tradition as ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- 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. ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- architecture that first appeared in Christian churches around the fifth ... the Influence of Stage Architecture upon the Art of Antioch," The Journal ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- popular religious tools, used within the Christian traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy ... traditions of Western European religious art are largely lacking in Russia ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- God") was adopted officially by the Christian Church at the Council of ... Madonna, if used to describe a work of art, rather than a single figure ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- of Peter is an example of popular early Christian apocalyptic literature ... Written by a Christian author in Peter's name during the first ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 06:02, 11 August 2023
- style of late medieval Central European art into the sixteenth century. ... html Biography] World Gallery of Art.hu. Retrieved January 20, 2009. ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 16:57, 7 November 2022
- novelist, social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, and moral thinker ... a life of personal austerity based on Christian love and an idealized image ...19 KB (2,888 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- from December 17, 283 to April 22, 296. Christian tradition makes him a native ... of the Roman church, established a Christian place of worship in their ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- language. Hex signs are a type of folk art that became common in Pennsylvania ... " By contrast, supporters of the folk-art theory point out that the ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- with strong use of harmony) drawn from Christian worship and often featuring ... musical idioms and traditional European Christian hymns, and came to maturity ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- While non-Christian traditions such as Judaism used scrolls, early ... Chinese also later did. As far back as the early second century, there is ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- studio painting to a bona fide and finished art in its own right. His chosen ... 1723. The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for art students at the time. The ...11 KB (1,576 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- as an illuminated manuscript, and also in early printing in both blockbook ... Prints and People (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton, 1971, nos.32, 33 ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. recognizable and iconic images in Modern art. The Scream was one of several ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- a short book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Written to the Christian ... any time from the later 50s C.E. to the early second century. ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 20:43, 17 May 2023
- influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance, an astrologer ... Ficino exhibited an interest in the art of astrology, which aroused ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- E.) was a virgin martyr and saint of the Christian church. Also known as Saint ... other than that she was executed as a Christian at age 12 or 13. Later ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- corpus. It is a principal symbol of the Christian religion, primarily used ... to those who believe. It is a fusion of art and faith, and has been a ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- ) is one of the oldest continuously functioning Christian monasteries ... by angels. Catherine of Alexandria was a Christian martyr initially sentenced ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- mass, the Orthodox liturgy and other Christian services including the ... attribute the term to Western and Judeo-Christian traditions, music accompanying ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- Romanesque art refers to the art of Western Europe from approximately ... " However, "Romanesque Art" is not a return to classical ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 04:56, 16 December 2022
- who rose to positions of influence in Christian European noble houses. ... developed reputations, both among the Christian populace and their fellow ...12 KB (1,873 words) - 20:25, 28 May 2020
- Christ. He, thus, reaffirmed the basic Christian faith, while also confronting ... at what was then the new International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- intelligentsia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Like many ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Scotland, Britain, and Europe, spreading Christian teachings. It is conjectured ... #039;s fame as a place of learning and Christian mission spread throughout ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
- has existed from prehistoric times. Early necromancy likely originated ... a magical amulet, for example. Later Christian writers rejected the idea ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- Saint Alban was the first known Christian martyr of Britain. Shortly ... Alban's career as a Christian was extremely brief, being executed ...10 KB (1,607 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- wrote about good governance, and espoused Christian values—he attended a ... in Paris. He erected a building and endowed art schools, spending between ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- gold and silver decoration and the finest art and statuary of the age. It ... Test holes have confirmed the temple site was occupied as early as ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- The parable is one of the clearest expressions of the Christian concepts ... response. The parable speaks to the Christian sense that God is a God ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- important sources of information about the early church. However, a large ... commemorated as a martyr by virtually all Christian traditions that honor saints ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- refers in general to works of a genre of Early Christian literature.Peter ... Haereses, Irenaeus denounced various early Christian groups that used ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- == Early life == Maffeo Barberini was born in 1568 to an important ... Despite an early friendship and encouragement for his teachings, Urban ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 17:03, 7 September 2023
- and Barahs." But the fame of these early establishers of Semitic supremacy ... Sin, and bearing a striking resemblance to early Egyptian art in many of its ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- traveled deeper into Asia. From as early as the Roman Empire until ... were the "alien" enemies of the Christian world. European knowledge ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- back to fourth-century Rome and the first Christian emperor Constantine I& ... enacted in the colony of Virginia in the early 1600s, and required attendance ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- the Samaritans respond positively to the Christian message. ... Exile up to the beginning of the Christian Era. The Samaritans, however ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- Expressionism generally refers to a twentieth century art movement ... conduit for previously neglected currents in ancient art. ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 23:58, 24 March 2024
- c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of ... history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine. ...17 KB (2,636 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2022
- His father Lin ZhiCheng (林至誠) was a Christian minister. His mother was ... he had a number of questions regarding Christian teachings: Jesus was said ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- supposed martyrdom. He is often depicted in art as writing his Gospel under ... a Hebrew name and a Greek name. The later Christian leader Paul (Paulos), was ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- === Early Education === John Toland was born November 30, 1670 in Ardagh ... medical profession, "They learn their Art at the hazard of our lives ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- to the discussion of the symbolism of Christian architecture in La Cathédrale ... ==Parents and early life== Huysmans was born in Paris to a Dutch father ...9 KB (1,248 words) - 03:25, 6 August 2022
- century,G. Schiller, Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. II (London: Lund ... was regarded as the most precious of all Christian relics. According to Art ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- such as painting, sculpture or some forms of mimetic art. ... reading. This tradition was inherited by Christian writers, for whom allegorical ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- return to their bodies. In the medieval Christian era, the tomb served as ... Early prehistoric tombs frequently took the shape of small burial ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- the head of the dissenters was a lapsed Christian who had denied the faith ... as the Church of San Marcello al Corso. In art, he is pictured with symbols ...10 KB (1,623 words) - 04:04, 26 November 2022
- Maritain's early upbringing and education at the Sorbonne led ... to the truth of the Thomistic doctrine, the early influence of Bergson also ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- into English by Joseph Jacobs in 1892 as The Art of Wordly Wisdom. ... Agudeza y arte de ingenio (Wit and the Art of Inventiveness) (1643) ...13 KB (1,963 words) - 05:58, 26 August 2023
- these works lies not only in their inherent art history value, but in the ... Very early printed books were sometimes produced with spaces left ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- and Birgitta of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic and the founder ... on depictions of the Nativity of Jesus in art. The Virgin knelt down ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023
- The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based ... it to fall in the Romance genre set in a Christian context. Two of its tales ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- was a painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, who was born in in Zurich ... He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- Today Hiroshige is represented in the art museums of Tokyo, London, ... Hiroshige devoted himself full-time to his art. From then until Hokusai& ...13 KB (2,024 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2024
- Today, the word is most commonly used in Christian circles to denote the Three ... Magi were three in number. According to Christian tradition, it is generally ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or Anti-Christ is a powerful ... Antichrist has been built up gradually by Christian theologians and folk-religionists ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- and social policy in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain ... theory of aesthetics emphasized the role of art in self-development, and of ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- traditionally believed to have died as a Christian martyr together with 11 ... According to this account, Ursula, the daughter of a Christian king ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 00:54, 23 December 2022
- to Christianity, as the second official Christian state (after Armenia) and ... After Axum became a Christian kingdom, it allied itself with the Byzantium ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named for its ... even in the first three centuries of the Christian era, during which premillennalism ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- :This article is about Gothic art. See also Gothic Architecture Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that spanned the course of ...29 KB (4,407 words) - 15:08, 30 December 2022
- s) in terms of humans characteristics. In early polytheistic religions human ... Anthropomorphism is frequently used as a device in art, literature ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- The French court of the troubadour Duke William IX was an early center ... of the First Crusade (1099). It found its early expression in the lyric poems ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- importance in the history of the early church. Most of his papacy ... The famous Christian teacher and scholar Origen wrote to Fabian, as ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- fidei athleta (true Champion of Christian Faith). He was a man of ... Nor was conflict constant. The early seventeenth century under ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- they also burned many valuable works of art. The colonialists were so ... the palace, often for ceremonial use. Much art depicted the Oba in various ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... and Peter.jpg|thumb|right|Baptism in early Christian art: A depiction of the ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- that for centuries after his death, Christian authors wrote hundreds ... his parents were part of the growing Christian community in the city, ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- in Literature for his “powerful and vivid art of description and the ability ... library before graduating from high school. Early literary influences included ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- of Thomas (written in east Syria in the early third century, or perhaps ... Some have claimed that the mainstream Christian tradition has mistakenly ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- late medieval realism in the north and the art of the Renaissance in Italy ... == Early life == [[Image:Albrecht-self.jpg|thumb|left|The earliest ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- as an illustrator, muralist, world traveler, art critic, author and close friend ... He was an organizer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- compares favorably with the Augustinian Christian view that evil is non-being ... religion was widely persecuted under Christian leaders of the Roman Empire ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- translations; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers; Anglo-Saxon ... Old English poetry is of two types, the pre-Christian and the Christian ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- preaching, book burning, and destruction of art. He vehemently preached against ... doctrines. Instead, he preached that Christian life involved being good ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- Cathedral and already a prominent Christian figure at home and abroad ... him in the principle of our universal Christian brotherhood, which rises ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- His study of literature, Greek antiquity, art and philosophy gave him a ... of Leipzig, where he studied philology, art and the history of ancient ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- In the early stellar cults of Mesopotamia, there were four "royal ... Watchers to the gods of the four winds. Christian theologians, in their attempts ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- Mars included warfare, which was seen as an art-form itself. ... goddess, although she was not worshiped as early as other Roman deities such ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- been written between the mid-seventh and early ninth centuries. Another ... === Early life === Brigid is traditionally believed to have been born ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- bishops are selected. In virtually all Christian traditions, celibacy is ... outside of marriage in Islamic and Judeo-Christian ethical contexts, and are ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
