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Homer describes a more-than-natural light around the heads of heroes in battle. [6] Depictions of Perseus in the act of slaying Medusa, with lines radiating from his head, appear on a white-ground toiletry box and on a slightly later red-figured vase in the style of Polygnotos, c. 450–30 BC. [7]
Glory around the shadow of a plane. The position of the glory's centre shows that the observer was in front of the wings. A glory is an optical phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the observer's head, caused by sunlight or (more rarely) moonlight interacting with the tiny water droplets that comprise mist or clouds.
Roman emperors were sometimes depicted wearing a radiant crown, with pointed rays intended to represent the rays of the sun. In the circular form the nimbus constitutes a natural and even primitive use of the idea of a crown , [ citation needed ] modified by an equally simple idea of the emanation of light from the head of a superior being, or ...
As Renaissance Biblical scholarship developed, awareness that "horned" was a mistranslation gradually spread, [31] and the horns were dropped in art, often replaced by two bunches of rays of light, springing from the same parts of the head, Moses is depicted numerous times in the Life of Moses fresco cycle in the Sistine Chapel of 1481-82, all ...
Effect of light from the rose window in Bari Cathedral, recurring in religious architecture to metaphorically allude to the spiritual light. [1]In theology, divine light (also called divine radiance or divine refulgence) is an aspect of divine presence perceived as light during a theophany or vision, or represented as such in allegory or metaphor.
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O radiant light, O sun divine Of God the Father's deathless face, O image of the light sublime That fills the heav'nly dwelling place. O Son of God, the source of life, Praise is your due by night and day; Our happy lips must raise the strain Of your esteemed and splendid name. Lord Jesus Christ, as daylight fades, As shine the lights of eventide,
“I imagine an older Russian person in front of an icon, just murmuring to themselves, 'Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,' ” Gershon said. As a side note, the Russians add an extra vowel ...