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  2. David James (painter) - Wikipedia

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    'David James' was a pseudonym, his real name being Joseph Donahue, the fourth child of a London porter and a probably Irish mother. [2] He was born in Ireland in 1853 and moved to Dalston, Cumbria in his twenties, when he changed his name to David James. He had little education and for a while, eked out a meagre existence as a pavement artist ...

  3. Depiction of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    [94] The Head of Christ is venerated in the Coptic Orthodox Church, [95] after twelve-year-old Isaac Ayoub, who diagnosed with cancer, saw the eyes of Jesus in the painting shedding tears; Fr. Ishaq Soliman of St. Mark's Coptic Church in Houston, on the same day, "testified to the miracles" and on the next day, "Dr. Atef Rizkalla, the family ...

  4. Life of Christ in art - Wikipedia

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    The life of Christ as a narrative cycle in Christian art comprises a number of different subjects showing events from the life of Jesus on Earth. They are distinguished from the many other subjects in art showing the eternal life of Christ, such as Christ in Majesty , and also many types of portrait or devotional subjects without a narrative ...

  5. Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena

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    The Cone Nebula, sometimes referred to as the Jesus Christ Nebula because of its resemblance to the popular depictions of Jesus with his hands in a prayer position.. People have been found to perceive images with spiritual or religious themes or import, sometimes called iconoplasms or simulacra, in the shapes of natural phenomena.

  6. Christian art - Wikipedia

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    Late 13th-century Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia showing the image of Christ Pantocrator.. Much of the art surviving from Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire is Christian art, although this is in large part because the continuity of church ownership has preserved church art better than secular works.

  7. Aniconism in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Jesus is often represented by pictogram symbols, though he is also portrayed. In the Dura-Europos church, of about 230–256, which of the very early churches surviving is in the best condition, there are frescos of biblical scenes including a figure of Jesus, as well as Christ as the Good Shepherd. [15]

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  9. Twelve Apostles in art - Wikipedia

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    It depicts Jesus and Peter walking on water, heralding Christ's power that viewers would hope to gain through "ritual initiation." [ 10 ] The period of late antiquity (313–476 CE), after the Edict of Milan (313 CE), saw an increase in Paleochristian public art, often focused on apostolic authority, due to Constantine's decriminalisation of ...