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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Christian art"”.
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Hoc est enim corpus meum: christian art and passion inonography in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard
… Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard deploy images from Christian art, particularly in relation to the Passion, in their respective oeuvres. Using the work of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy on the image and post-Christianity as a methodological touchstone, I discuss how both directors locate the …
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Christian Piano Art Music: Its Theological Significance and Categorized Repertoire
"Christian piano art music" is a small genre, each piece of which belongs seemingly to either Christian music or art music, but by definition to both of them. In spite of its merits this genre has been ignored both by the concert hall because of its religiosity and by the church because of its …
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And the Word Became Flesh: Visual Thoughts on the Book of John
<p>As a Christian artist, the author struggled with the historic baggage of Christian Art history and found most contemporary Christian Art to be an often repeated, inadequate expression of what Christianity teaches. Through a personal exploration of the Bible, Reformed Theological literature, and …
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St. Joseph Iconography In Fifteenth Century Florentine Painting
… of the depiction of Joseph is evident in Christian art, and his iconography is widely recognized. The significance of the addition of the donkey saddle and traveler's items to Florentine nativities in the 15th century is understated at best, if not ignored all together. These items appear …
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Vox populi: Visual rhetoric methodology for medieval Apocalyptic Art
… and religions worldwide. The influence of the Christian Apocalypse in Western philosophy, spirituality, religion, imagery, iconography, and social thought is present in almost every form of visual rhetoric we know: photography, art, paintings, sculptures, illuminations, and cinematography. …
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Saintly ecstasies: the appropriation and secularisation of saintly imagery in the paintings and poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
… Columbia, the British Library and the National Art Library in the V&A, this thesis aims to broaden current scholarly understanding regarding Rossetti's exposure to, interest in, and subsequent appropriation of aspects of monastic life and saintly legend in his religious and secular paintings and …
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Childhood and Christianity from Paul to the Council of Chalcedon.
… children and the rituals practices of antique Christianity. The thesis is framed firmly as a piece of cultural . - - history and it takes as its evidence the writings of the church fathers, complemented by antique Christian art. It has sought to show that Christianity made a considerable …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… analyses the Oriental influences in Franciscan art from the thirteenth to the fourteenth centuries, arguing that what appears as an encounter with the East was, in fact, a complex process of self-definition within Western Christian culture. The research proceeds along a transregional trajectory …
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Pilgrimage through the pages: pilgrim's badges in late medieval devotional manuscripts
… the first portion, I will investigate how the particular location of pilgrims’ badges within a manuscript affected the reader’s interaction with the souvenirs and the book’s contents, whether clustered together on one folio or scattered through the manuscript next to specific—and often …
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The works of art within the Church of St Francis of Assisi, Valletta
This study aims to provide an art historical analysis of the works of art present within the church of St Francis of Assisi in Valletta. Although the works have already been tackled by numerous scholars, so far, a holistic study of the works within the church has not yet been undertaken. The church …
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Passionate transformation in vernicle images.
This thesis will examine the iconography of late-thirteenth- through fifteenth-century images of St. Veronica's veil, also known as vernicles. In the late Middle Ages, vernicle iconography changed from iconic representations of Christ's face toward graphic imagery of Christ's suffering during his …
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Optimistic and a Little Flawed
<p>The accompanying exhibition to this paper, Optimistic and Flawed is a body of drawings and objects that explores the liminal space between playful and intended actions. Inspired by the landscape of the yard and the actions that take place within, the goalless play of a child and the laborious …
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Plasticene
… the beginning of significant human impact on Earth. While this moniker carries numerous implications across a range of disciplines, the scholarship of this thesis project is motivated by the creation and exhibition of a body of work that investigates the materiality and physical presence of …
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
<p>I am a Midwestern, Christian, and feminist artist. I make work about the beautiful, broken, and absurd ways in which American evangelical culture influences lives, especially women’s lives. I’m dragging everything into the light by deconstructing and critiquing the world in which I live, move, …
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Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art
… subject pictures, a category of Victorian art that remains arguably under-researched. Nineteenth-century religious art was rooted in a Romantic sensibility and was invested with the purpose of providing a balm during a course, commercial industrial age, which, like the Enlightenment that …