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AP®︎/College Art History
Course: AP®︎/College Art History > Unit 2
Lesson 5: Christianity- Christianity, an introduction for the study of art history
- A New Pictorial Language: The Image in Early Medieval Art
- The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
- Architecture and liturgy
- The audacity of Christian art: the problem with Christ | National Gallery
- The audacity of Christian art: Christ is not like a snail: Signs and symbols | National Gallery
- The audacity of Christian art: Putting God in His place: Here, everywhere, and nowhere | National Gallery
- The audacity of Christian art: Time and eternity: Yesterday, today, and always | National Gallery
- The audacity of Christian art: This world and the next: Christ on earth; Christ in heaven | National Gallery
- The audacity of Christian Art: So near and yet so far: Visions and thresholds | National Gallery
- The audacity of Christian art: Unspeakable images: When words fail | National Gallery
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The audacity of Christian art: This world and the next: Christ on earth; Christ in heaven | National Gallery
"Christian Art: Earth and Heaven" explores the audacious depiction of Christ in both earthly and heavenly realms. It highlights how artists used innovative techniques to represent Christ's dual nature, bridging the gap between divine and human. This bold approach revolutionized Christian art, offering new ways to visualize faith.
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Our understanding of things has, in the past 200 years, been reduced to what is captured by a camera in the blink of a shutter. These paintings seem to ignore the passage of time, and layer one time's features upon another, enriching our understanding through story telling. OK, this is Renaisance stuff. Is later art of any sort similarly built up on "temporal layers" to tell stories?(8 votes)