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Saint Augustine (354–430) in the City of God based the discussion of the miraculous aspects of monsters (including the salamander in fire) largely on Pliny's Natural History. [37] Augustine then used the example of the salamander to argue for the plausibility of the Purgatory where humans being punished by being burned in eternal flame. [38] [1]
God the Father appears in several Genesis scenes in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, most famously The Creation of Adam. God the Father is depicted as a powerful figure, floating in the clouds in Titian's Assumption of the Virgin (see gallery below) in the Frari of Venice, long admired as a masterpiece of High Renaissance art. [25]
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]
The tempting Serpent is depicted as a bipedal salamander-like creature because it was assumed that the serpent could walk before God's curse compelled it to crawl and eat dust. [3] The human-headed Serpent was introduced into art in the late 13th century. [3]
In Carlos Diegues' 2003 movie Deus é Brasileiro, God is a down-to-Earth character, exhausted from his labours, who is resting in the northeast of Brazil. [2] God as a character is often mentioned or intervenes in the plot of the CW show Supernatural, and eventually served as the series' ultimate villain. He seems as a loving, smart, serious ...
Nicodemus Visiting Christ is a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, made in Jerusalem in 1899 during the artist's second visit to what was then Palestine. [1] The painting is biblical, featuring Nicodemus talking privately to Christ in the evening, and is an example of Tanner's nocturnal light paintings, in which the world is shown in night light.
In Aztec mythology, Xolotl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈʃolot͡ɬ] ⓘ) was a god of fire and lightning. He was commonly depicted as a dog-headed man and was a soul-guide for the dead. [2] He was also god of twins, monsters, death, misfortune, sickness, and deformities.
The majority of early Christian art depicts The Holy Spirit in an anthropomorphic form as a human with two other Identical human figures representing God the Father and Jesus Christ. They either sit or they stand grouped together. This is used to portray the unity of the Most Holy Trinity. [7] [8]