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 ...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
