Art during the Italian Renaissance separated itself from religion; this is known as secularism. A piece that well describes secularism is the Mona Lisa- created by Leonardo da Vinci using oil paint. He began the Mona Lisa in 1503 and competed the painting in 1517. There are no real explanations as to why da Vinci depicted the Mona Lisa, but this painting does portray secularism. Other artful Renaissance thinking the Mona Lisa portrays is a common person, realism, and perspective.
The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine has a broad mix of traditional and nontraditional features. Some of the elements it has that are traditional to churches from the Gothic period such as an apse, ambulatory, choir, transept, rose window and nave. Some of the elements of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine that aren’t traditional to Gothic architecture are the aisle chapels or nave chapels and the narthex. Narthexes were originally intended to separate the general congregation from those who had were not allowed inside the nave. This allowed those that were not welcomed into the nave to hear and partake in the services held inside the cathedral.
Little is known of Shang Xi's life at the capital, but his membership of the Guards - the sole fact available to describe his career - may have had some bearing on what he painted. Shang Xi held office as a Vice Commander in the Brocade Dress Guards {Jinyi wei). This was quite a normal appointment for court-approved painters in the early Ming, which did not sponsor a painting academy. Bostic 2 Bostic 2 This broad silk scroll is titled by its present curators a large painting (200 x 237 cm); it shows the chief figure of Guan Yu dressed in a green robe according to the most popular iconography of the fifteenth century and later. "He sits above his adoptive son Guan Ping, wearing red and drawing a sword.
The work is an approximate 5’ by 4’ oil painting on canvas created in the 17th century during the Baroque art movement (Norton Simon). An interesting fact I noticed was that the painting also has a second name titled The Cosmographer. According to the engraved name plate on the frame it was painted in 1562-1609. These two works of art have similarities and yet I noticed distinct differences. I consider the religious painting by de Zurbaran to be 3D, representational art.
Infant Baptism: According with the Catholic Church, when a baby is in danger of death a mother may request a member of the staff to contact the chaplain to baptise the child. (The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales, 2012). This sacrament involves the pouring of water over the child, while invoking the trinity (father, son and Holy Spirit), catholic believe that this sacrament enable them to share the life of Jesus Christ and to be members of the church. (Trigilio & Brighenti, 2011). The chaplain may request sterilised water in a small container and ask for privacy around the family.
Just for the sake of fairness I would have to say that just about any film concerning the life of Jesus is going to be considered controversial to some. These two stories were written and told by authors with contrasting religious beliefs and presented in convincingly different ways. Jesus Christ Superstar was written almost forty years ago by Andrew Lloyd Webber is a church of England Christian and is patron of a charity called the "Open Churches Trust" to get churches open to the general public. Mel Gibson born and raised a Traditionalist Catholic. Traditionalist Catholics generally prefer to be referred to either simply as Catholics or Roman Catholic.
In this case, Jan Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait by Erwin Panofski, used an iconographic analysis and The Painter’s Workshop by W.G. Constable used a technical analysis. The opposing results of both studies make this piece enigmatic; since there is no study which proves the artist’s real intentions; its doors are open for viewers to decide its nature. According to Pantofsky, the couple on the portrait were contracting “per fidem manualemm” marriage, a ceremony performing in the absence of a priest, only a promise of faith. He states the portrait is an “artistic marriage certificate.” It was a memorial portrait that worked as a document at the same time, where the artist signed his name as a witness.
The North faced a more austere and miserable environment which is somewhat represented in their work whereas the south were more focused on bringing out the religious imagery of the Bible in their artists works. This is probably one of the main differences in the work of Northern & Southern art. We can see above that the work of Northerners such as Hieronymus Boche and Albrecht Diirer is more abstract in comparison to the paintings of someone such as Raphael who we can see has decided to go for a more realistic approach. Why is this? It seems that the main reason to take into account is the fact that the church commissioned nearly all the works that were done by Southern artists meaning that the pictures were to be displayed in churches and on stained glass windows etc.
Under the greatly designed top of the inner dome is the Golden Gallery. When the cathedral was first built, Sir Christopher Wren’s son intended to decorate the interior of the dome with mosaics. However, during that time and under that cultural background, this type of art was considered as new and challenging, and was eventually rejected by the society. Therefore, this proposal was replaced by the paintings that illustrate the life of St Paul, which are completed by Sir James Thornhill. Instead of simply separating the different stories with drawn frames like many cathedrals did, Thornhill cleverly used the shape of the dome and the technique of shading to provide a pseudo morph of stereoscopic arches.
Used as an object or veneration (object of respect) in Orthodox churches and private homes, the icon has been called the prayer, hymn, and sermon in form and color. For the Byzantines, the icon served as an existential link to God. This is also way there was a lose in the art realistic portraiture. The Byzantines wanted ideal images of Christ. For the Byzantine artist the idea was to depict the inner or spiritual nature of the subject and to that end a simplification and stylization was adapted.