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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]
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.
Regalia accessories for Our Lady, Queen of All Saints.Note the solid brass Aureola or halo. Spain, 2008. A santo ('saint') is a religious statue in the Catholic traditions of Spain and the former Spanish Empire.
Crucifixions and crucifixes have appeared in the arts and popular culture from before the era of the pagan Roman Empire.The crucifixion of Jesus has been depicted in a wide range of religious art since the 4th century CE, frequently including the appearance of mournful onlookers such as the Virgin Mary, Pontius Pilate, and angels, as well as antisemitic depictions portraying Jews as ...
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Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla was born into a well-to-do family in Barrio Río Cañas of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, on January 11, 1839. [2] His parents were Eugenio María de Hostos y Rodríguez (1807–1897) and María Hilaria de Bonilla y Cintrón (died 1862, Madrid, Spain), both of Spanish descent.