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Most Tibetan Buddhist artforms are related to the practice of Vajrayana or Buddhist tantra. Tibetan art includes thangkas and mandalas, often including depictions of Buddhas and bodhisattvas.
The building where the museum is located used to be a house of the Arboleda family. [2] The museum was founded in 1972 by Archbishop Miguel Angel Arce. After the 1983 Popayán Earthquake, the museum building suffered serious damage, part of the museum's collections were recovered and preserved in the Bank of the Republic. [3]
After restoration by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the church now houses the Museo de Arte Religioso. This is a museum of religious paintings and wooden carvings dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The building was listed in 1976 on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as "Convento de Porta Coeli".
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.
Indochristian art (Spanish: arte indocristiano), is a type of Latin American art that combines European colonial influences with Indigenous artistic styles and traditions. During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Franciscan , Dominican , and Augustinian monks extensively converted indigenous peoples to Christianity, introducing them to ...
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Museo de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela Sala Mendoza, Fundación Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela Cartón y Papel de México, México, D.F. Museo Cuevas, México DF IDB - Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
"El arte religioso de la Antigua Guatemala, 1773-1821; crónica de la emigración de sus imágenes" (PDF). Tesis doctoral en Historia del Arte (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2014
Brígida del Río, the Bearded Lady of Peñaranda; 1590, 102 × 61 cm, Prado Museum.. Sánchez Cotán was born in the town of Orgaz, near Toledo, Spain.He was a friend and perhaps pupil of Blas de Prado, an artist famous for his still lifes whose mannerist style with touches of realism the disciple developed further.