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Buddhist Art and Architecture (World of Art)

Posted in Buddhism, History of Buddhism, Religious Art, tagged , , , , , on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Buddhist Art and Architecture (World of Art) .The 1993 edition of Fisher’s “Buddhist Art and Architecture” was reprinted, with revisions, in 2002. The cover of the revised edition is like the 1993 edition (i.e. the Kansas Guanyin), but now framed within a diamond-shape which is inset into a black background. The text is current on [...]

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Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling

Posted in Christianity, History of Christianity, Religious Art, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling . Almost 500 years after Michelangelo Buonarroti frescoed the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the site still attracts throngs of visitors and is considered one of the artistic masterpieces of the world. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling unveils the story behind the art’s making, a story rife with [...]

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The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

Posted in Christianity, History of Christianity, Religious Art, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican. Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting [...]

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Posted in Religious Art, tagged , , , , , , on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of Modernist art theory. A brilliant philosophical treatise and an emphatic [...]

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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church (Guide to Imagery Series)

Posted in Christianity, Orthodoxy, Religious Art, tagged , , , , , on May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

An icon (from the Greek word “eikon,” “image”) is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their [...]

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