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Guido Reni's Archangel Michael tramples Satan (c. 1636, in the Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome). Catholic art is art produced by or for members of the Catholic Church. This includes visual art (iconography), sculpture, decorative arts, applied arts, and architecture.
The Visual Arts: A History (Seventh ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-193507-0. Jensen, Robin Margaret (2000). Understanding Early Christian Art. Routledge. ISBN 0415204542. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Meer, F. van der (1967). Early Christian Art, Faber and Faber; Syndicus, Eduard (1962). Early ...
Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.
In Catholic countries, production of religious art continued, and increased during the Counter-Reformation, but Catholic art was brought under much tighter control by the church hierarchy than had been the case before. From the 18th century the number of religious works produced by leading artists declined sharply, though important commissions ...
An example of these built-up churches would be the church of Yemrehana Krestos [broken anchor], which has many resemblances to the church of Debre Damo both in plan and construction. [20] The other style of this period, perhaps the most famous architectural tradition of Ethiopia, are the numerous monolithic churches.
Typical early Christian Byzantine apse with a hemispherical semi-dome in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe Typical floor plan of a cathedral, with the apse shaded. In architecture, an apse (pl.: apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς, apsis, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; pl.: apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi ...
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It is considered a key example of high Renaissance art. Madonna della Strada at the Church of the Gesu in Rome is a historic icon and the patron saint of the Jesuits; The Madonna statue at the altar of Milan Cathedral is an outstanding example of Baroque Marian art; Murillo's Dolorosa Madonna in Seville, Spain is a key example of a sorrowful ...