“For too long, Christian art has implied pale imitation,” Detweiler said. “We’re trying to get back to the days of the Renaissance, where the church was the patron of the finest art.” ...

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has been making that case—and has already singled out a proto-Renaissance masterpiece by Duccio as a possible candidate to leave the museum. Encountering religious art in a church can provide ...

Panel paintings crafted prior to the Renaissance typically included subjects ... depicts Christ being crucified along with religious figures at the bottom grieving with a great sense of sorrow ...

While many look to Florence as the creative pulse of early Renaissance art ... It highlights not only the beauty in these rare religious paintings, but also their importance in the canon of ...

Beyond the venue’s religious significance, the presentation of the works in Belgium itself – the home of Northern Renaissance art – brings another layer of meaning to the exhibition. In Kaphar’s work, ...

Mori combines Japanese anime and pop art with some of the most iconic religious portraits of the Renaissance era to create a fresh new take on classical Western and Japanese "rimpa"-style art. Mori ...

Renaissance art largely excluded Black people ... “Over time, the orishas and saints became fused through a process known as religious syncretism. In her paintings, Rosales alludes to this ...

“It’s a little, first try to hopefully encourage the church to have a renaissance ... Catholic art should look like. The portraits evoke the Old Masters and avoid abstraction. “Christian ...

When we think of religious art, we typically conjure up images from the Renaissance—awe-inspiring basilicas with figures almost leaping out of the ceilings, colorful stained glass windows ...