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The theme Angel holding the body of Christ has been reproduced by countless Greek, Italian and Flemish painters. It is part of the passion sequence. Notable versions were completed by Flemish artists Bartholomeus Spranger and Jacob de Backer. Hendrick Goltzius was a notable Dutch engraver that adopted a version of Spranger's work. Venetian ...
Most Western commentators in the Middle Ages considered the Transfiguration a preview of the glorified body of Christ following his Resurrection. [11] In earlier times, every Eastern Orthodox monk who took up icon painting had to start his craft by painting the icon of the Transfiguration, the underlying belief being that this icon is not painted so much with colors, but with the Taboric light ...
The net of the hypercube is a three-dimensional representation of it, similar to how Christ is a human form of God that is more relatable to people. The word "corpus" in the title can refer both to the body of Christ and to geometric figures, reinforcing the link Dalí makes between religion and mathematics and science. [6]
From the middle of the 4th century, after Christianity was legalized by the Edict of Milan in 313, and gained Imperial favour, there was a new range of images of Christ the King, [47] using either of the two physical types described above, but adopting the costume and often the poses of Imperial iconography.
The Institution of the Eucharist by Nicolas Poussin, 1640. In Christian theology, the term Body of Christ (Latin: Corpus Christi) has two main but separate meanings: it may refer to Jesus Christ's words over the bread at the celebration of the Jewish feast of Passover that "This is my body" in Luke 22:19–20 (see Last Supper), or it may refer to all individuals who are "in Christ" (1 ...
Thomas Aquinas said, (Summa, III, 25, 3), but "no reverence is shown to Christ's image, as a thing---for instance, carved or painted wood: because reverence is not due save to a rational creature". [25] In the case of an image of a saint, the worship would not be latria but rather dulia, while the Blessed Virgin Mary receives hyperdulia.
Christ and the Penitent Sinners; Christ and the Samaritan Woman (de Troy) Christ and the Samaritan Woman (Carracci) Christ and the Samaritan Woman (Kauffman) Christ and the Virgin Diptych; Christ and the Woman of Samaria (Gentileschi) Christ Appointing Saint Roch as Patron Saint of Plague Victims; Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (Mantegna)
The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (and detail, lower) 30.5 cm × 200 cm. Kunstmuseum Basel. The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, sometimes referred to as Dead Christ, is an oil and tempera on limewood painting created by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger between 1520 and 1522.