Search results for "Sacred art" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of the divine, and are thus revered forms of sacred art. ... Thangka are a revered form of sacred art in Tibetan Buddhism overflowing ...6 KB (950 words) - 15:07, 30 April 2023
- Rangoli, Kolam, Rangavalli and other sacred geometrical traditions, are ... tantric symbols of cosmic unity, sacred geometric diagrams representing ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- who excelled in the categories of both sacred and secular music. Even though ... Hassler's sacred music is both for the Roman Catholic church ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- beneath secular tunes, obscuring the sacred texts as composers continued ... This sparked a number of innovations in medicine, science, art, and music. ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- The Sacred Heart is a devotional representation of Jesus' physical ... Predecessors to the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart existed to ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 18:34, 22 December 2022
- Senfl was an eclectic composer, at home both in the worlds of sacred ... His sacred music includes masses, motets, vespers settings, and a ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- Often viewed as the sacred union of male and female, Feng being male ... This sacred creature never kills. It eats only plants, never even ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- in the early eighteenth century. His sacred music, chamber compositions ... and theoretical work, expressed in his The Art of Harpsichord Playing. Composers ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ... Chants were derived to enhance the parts in sacred ceremonies and ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- This practice is ancient, and held as sacred by many cultures, including ... take place. Sage is also used in keeping sacred objects like pipes or Peyote ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- sites and buildings, including the sacred pagodas that hold the ashes ... *Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, and Howard C. Cutler. 1998. The art of happiness: ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- and elegance that are proficient in the art of dancing. They are the wives ... ===Apsaras in the art of ancient Java and Bali, Indonesia=== ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- monogram and is still used in Christian art, often in combination with ... Him, since He is eternal. Thus Emet is a sacred word expressing that in God ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- :Thou art the eldest son of Shu, his primogeniture. :O Geb, Osiris ... :thou art the Great God, the only one. :Atum has given thee his heritage; ...20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
- stupa, a tomb-like structure in which sacred relics could be kept safe ... as an appropriate structure for enshrining sacred relics and became known to ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 23:42, 28 April 2024
- periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... undertook a similar work regarding the sacred vocal music. ...7 KB (1,073 words) - 17:05, 9 November 2022
- ) is a form of sacred theater traditionally performed in Hindu temples ... women of the Ambalavasi Nambiar caste in sacred theaters, called Koothambalam ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- Mt. Emei is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. The ... * Buddhist art * Chinese Buddhism * Tang Dynasty * Sacred Mountains of China ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- seem unusual that a composer would build a sacred composition upon fragments ... like his father, and in so doing learned the art of counterpoint and improvisation ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- Hieros Gamos (Greek ιερός γάμος, "sacred wedding" ... *The union of a god and goddess as expressed in various art forms ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- was principally a goddess of fertility and sacred mountains. Temple hymn sources ... Nin ("lady") and Ḫursag ("sacred mountain"). She had ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- or representation of an object, deity or sacred figure or event. Originally ... traditions of Western European religious art are largely lacking in Russia ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- of figs include the banyans and the sacred fig (Peepul or Bo) tree. areas with fig leaves after the Fall. The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa, is ...16 KB (2,692 words) - 19:39, 26 March 2024
- which encouraged the examination of sacred texts and religious experiences ... of religion." Religious experience, sacred texts, and religious practice ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- years when images of Mary were central to Western art. Madonna, if ... be used exclusively for Italian works of sacred art, but this is often not ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- Included among those fascinated by the art of "primitive" human ... 1,200 tourists per day who came to see the art of Paleolithic man. By 1955 ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, that the Ichthys ... *Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art: With Illustrations ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- Sacred singing in Hebrew tradition dates back to songs of Miriam and ... factions within Church hierarchy that felt art in general, and music in particular ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- " "completion") refers to a sacred geometric device commonly ... In Islam, sacred art is dominated by geometric shapes in which a segment ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- as well as often being depicted in western art. depictions of cherubim in western art. As most English speakers ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 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
- codes. Religious belief, reflected in cave art, also became more sophisticated ... Prehistoric art can only be traced from surviving artifacts. Prehistoric ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- later returning to her position at Ur sacred temple. Her writings were ... was also the son of a priestess, perhaps a sacred harlot, since he admits not ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- only initiates knew what the kiste, a sacred chest, and the kalathos, ... Greater Mysteries was the bringing of the sacred objects from Eleusis to the ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- megalithic cemeteries, temples, and rock art. Those findings show that ... the capital area into many zones. The Sacred Center and the Royal Center ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- s/mi_m1216/is_4_206/ai_72704345 The Art of the Hula.] Retrieved August ... evidence remains of the genesis of the art form. There is no record of ...19 KB (3,030 words) - 16:15, 9 February 2024
- an ancient temple and cemetery of the sacred Apis bulls. Although originally ... of the Serapeum—the cemetery of the sacred Apis bulls. ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- be Bach's personal credo with regard to his art. == History == ... in the genre of monody, just as in sacred vocal music it resulted in ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- in Shiva temples, an image of the sacred bull Nandi fronts the central ... Shiva, with his full might is a landmark in Indian art. ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- Kendo (剣道 Kendō) is the martial art of Japanese fencing, developed ... taught through the practice of this martial art. Practice always begins and ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 22:07, 3 March 2023
- of Life was depicted in various works of art and literature. It was sometimes ... Good and Evil, often symbolized in European art and literature as an apple tree. ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- the aesthetics of antique Roman and Greek art, contributed to an accelerated ... features of early Renaissance European art music (in the Middle Ages ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- for vocal production and created a novel art which culminated in the bel ... direction. He was also required to compose sacred works and small instrumental ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- to a shrine where a linga was bathed in sacred water from a mountain spring ... The temples, also dedicated to Shiva, boast sacred springs near by. ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- of Ramesses and Nefertari with the sacred boats of Amun and Ra-Harakhti ... What is truly surprising is that for the only time in Egyptian art ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- G. Schiller, Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. II (London: Lund Humphries ... of all Christian relics. According to Art Curator Neil Macgregor, “From ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- of real living existence, but exists only in art and literature, representing ... Found throughout history, in tales and in art, the sphinx always possesses ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- including their origin myth. The first sacred buffalo had been created ... and her brother first created the sacred buffalo and then the first ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- in Carroll's imaginative works. His art thus contributed to the entertainment ... London and educated himself for a career in art, although he became a probationer ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 07:57, 3 August 2022
- of mugwort, ordering them to eat only this sacred food and remain out of the ... Taekwondo, a form of the Korean martial art presents Dangun as the ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
