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Printable version; In other projects ... Christian images (7 C, 77 F) S. Saints in art (7 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Christian art" The following 48 pages are in this ...
The writings of a Christian poet are not necessarily classified as Christian poetry nor are writings of secular poets dealing with Christian material. The themes of poetry are necessarily hard to pin down, and what some see as a Christian theme or viewpoint may not be seen by others. A number of modern writers are widely considered to have ...
This category is for specific works that include depictions of Jesus in the visual arts.For articles covering ways of depicting scenes or types of depictions of Jesus in general, see the sub-category Category:Iconography of Jesus.
The original poem was in three paragraphs of 16 lines each (for a total of 48). [2] [3] The exact date of this document is uncertain, although it is usually dated between 1745 [1] and 1750. [4] [5] This was later published in the author's posthumous Poems, &c. (1773) and later again in his Works (1814, vol. ii). [2]
Christ in the winepress appears in the 14th century poetry of English Benedictine John Lydgate, [28] and the metaphor is used by two important English 17th-century poets. One of the best known poems of the Anglican Vicar George Herbert is The Agonie , included in The Temple (1633), where the second stanza (of three) is an extended conceit on ...
The various versions of the Man of Sorrows image all show a Christ with the wounds of the Crucifixion, including the spear-wound. Especially in Germany, Christ's eyes are usually open and look out at the viewer; in Italy the closed eyes of the Byzantine epitaphios image, originally intended to show a dead Christ, remained for longer.
Like many poems of the Anglo-Saxon period, The Dream of the Rood exhibits many Christian and pre-Christian images, but, in the final analysis, is a Christian piece. [24] Examining the poem as a pre-Christian (or pagan) text is difficult, as the scribes who wrote it down were Christian monks who lived in a time when Christianity was firmly ...
Christ I (also known as Christ A or (The) Advent Lyrics) is a fragmentary collection of Old English poems on the coming of the Lord, preserved in the Exeter Book. In its present state, the poem comprises 439 lines in twelve distinct sections.