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The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition. Christian art includes a great many representations of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
The Transfiguration of Jesus was a major theme in the East and every Eastern Orthodox monk who had trained in icon painting had to prove his craft by painting an icon of the Transfiguration. [60] However, while Western depictions increasingly aimed at realism , in Eastern icons a low regard for perspective and alterations in the size and ...
Subjects showing the life of Jesus during his active life as a teacher, before the days of the Passion, were relatively few in medieval art, for a number of reasons. [1] From the Renaissance, and in Protestant art, the number of subjects increased considerably, but cycles in painting became rarer, though they remained common in prints and ...
Paintings of Christ and the woman taken in adultery (11 P) Pages in category "Paintings of Jesus" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 230 total.
The Abbasid Caliphate first centered its government in Kufa, modern-day Iraq, but in 762 the caliph al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad, near the ancient Babylonian capital city of Babylon and Sassanid city of Ctesiphon. Baghdad became the center of science, culture, and invention in what became known as the Golden Age of Islam.
The name of Caliph al-Mustansir appears in this contemporary painting from folio 164v of the Maqamat al-Hariri, 1237 edition (BNF Arabe 5847). [3]Al-Mustansir Bi'llah (full name:Abū Jā`far al-Mānsūr al-Mustansir bi'Llah bin az-Zâhir [4] surname al-Mustansir), [5] (17 February 1192 – 2 December 1242) was the Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty from 1226 to 1242.
Abu'l-Abbas al-Saffah, the first caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate; Abu Ja'far Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur, the second Abbasid Caliph [37] Al-Mahdi third Abbasid caliph (r. October 775 – 24 July 785) was the most influential Abbasid Caliph. He also promoted Art and science in the Islamic Caliphate. Al-Hadi, (r. 785–786) was an Abbasid ...
One of the most famous centers in the Arab world was the Baghdad School, also known as the Arab school, it was a relatively short-lived yet influential center of Arab art developed during the late 12th century in the capital Baghdad of the ruling Abbasid Caliphate. The movement had largely died out by the early 14th century, five decades ...