The Musée du Louvre aims to bring these treasures closer to the public with a new department of Byzantine and Eastern ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Art Journal (1875-1887) Vol. 2, 1876 Traditions of Christian Art. Chapter I. ... Traditions of ...

Virtue and Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art Edited by Colum Hourihane The concept of opposing forces of good and evil expressed in a broad range of moral qualities--virtues and ...

Use this introduction lesson to talk about different Christian art that you might see within a church. Explore the different reasons why Christian art is created, who makes it and who benefits from it ...

Nicholas Galanin, a member of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, explores in his art practice life’s movement and its profound ties to land.... The war has touched Hlafira Shcherbak in a more personal way ...

It might even feel sacrilegious rather than sacred. So how—and why—is this form of art so prominent in the historic Christian church? If we walk with the dead and gaze carefully at their bones, the ...

Indeed, the burgeoning Christian art, when it can be seen as distinctively Christian at all, is a sign that they really are making their way into society at large.... The catacombs hold a very ...

Discuss how and why people often feature in Christian art using this detailed lesson. With examples from Westminster Abbey, talk through different depictions of Jesus, saints and other people, and ...