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The Nativity has been depicted in many different media, both pictorial and sculptural. Pictorial forms include murals, panel paintings, manuscript illuminations, stained glass windows and oil paintings. The subject of the Nativity is often used for altarpieces, many of these combining both painted and sculptural elements. Other sculptural ...
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. In a broader sense, Catholic music and other art may be included as well. Expressions of art may or may not attempt to illustrate, supplement and portray in tangible form ...
Christ Pantocrator mosaic in Byzantine style from the Cefalù Cathedral, Sicily. The most common translation of Pantocrator is "Almighty" or "All-powerful". In this understanding, Pantokrator is a compound word formed from the Greek words πᾶς, pas (GEN παντός pantos), i.e. "all" [4] and κράτος, kratos, i.e. "strength", "might", "power". [5]
The Catholic Church states that idolatry is consistently prohibited in the Hebrew Bible, including as one of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3–4) and in the New Testament (for example 1 John 5:21, most significantly in the Apostolic Decree recorded in Acts 15:19–21). There is a great deal of controversy over the question of what constitutes ...
In 1962, Nativity Church in the City of Poughkeepsie was forced to close because the building was deemed unsafe. [3] A new parish was formed in the Red Oaks Mill section of the Town of Poughkeepsie and rededicated to St. Martin de Porres in 1962. In the early-1960s the Archdiocese of New York was beginning to move away from the establishment of ...
The interior of the church was painted by Ferdinand Stockert and Hermann Kern in 1912. The pair painted designs on canvas and affixed them to the church walls, resulting in decorations which resemble wallpaper. [2] The designs were drawn freehand and include symbols such as angels, crosses with crowns, Stars of David, and bunches of grapes. [3]
It took a few days, but Oregon has officially clinched a spot in the Big Ten championship game, effectively securing a College Football Playoff bid. The Big Ten confirmed on Tuesday — three days ...
The Mystical Nativity is a painting in oil on canvas executed c. 1500–1501 by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, in the National Gallery in London. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is his only signed work and has an unusual iconography for a painting of the Nativity .