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Lesson 5: Christianity- Christianity, an introduction for the study of art history
- The Christian Bible
- A New Pictorial Language: The Image in Early Medieval Art
- The lives of Christ and the Virgin in Byzantine art
- The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
- How to recognize the Four Evangelists
- How to recognize saints
- 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: Time and eternity: Yesterday, today, and always | National Gallery
Christian Art audaciously portrays time and eternity, blending the past, present, and future. It captures the essence of divine timelessness, showcasing the eternal nature of Christian beliefs. This art form uniquely intertwines earthly and heavenly realms, making the divine relatable and accessible.
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In the first painting with St. Jerome, what is the animal in front of him, and what does it mean?(2 votes)
It appears to me to be a lamb (an image related to Christ in a lot of places in the Bible). That it is brown (instead of fluffy white) means that it is a middle-eastern lamb, not a British one.(2 votes)
I noticed another time displacement in The Deposition. The clothes in the painting look Medieval. It also creates a sense of the timeless by putting Medieval looking figures back in ancient Rome during the Crucifixion. Or am I wrong?(1 vote)