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Made and painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the painting depicts Jesus Christ with children, based on the New Testament verse "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:14); a popular subject of Protestant iconography in line with the Lutheran teachings of Sola gratia and Sola Fide; salvation by grace through faith, a theme ...
Butlin, and nearly all subsequent scholars, have rejected this, as much commentary has centered upon Blake's use of similar images to frame the sequence. Butlin instead rearranges the "original" sequence as 1-2-4-5-3-6, moving The Flight of Moloch to second to last, so that it matches the order of corresponding verses in Milton's poem. [5]
Baroque Trinity, Hendrick van Balen, 1620, (Sint-Jacobskerk, Antwerp) Holy Trinity, fresco by Luca Rossetti da Orta, 1738–39 (St. Gaudenzio Church at Ivrea). The Trinity is most commonly seen in Christian art with the Holy Spirit represented by a dove, as specified in the gospel accounts of the baptism of Christ; he is nearly always shown with wings outspread.
Christ was arrived to free both from their burdens. Mary is only shown when the scene is the Adoration of the Magi , but often one of the shepherds, or a prophet with a scroll , is present. From the end of the 5th century (following the Council of Ephesus ), Mary becomes a fixture in the scene; then as later Joseph is a more variable element.
The ode with The Passion and Upon the Circumcision form a set of poems that celebrate important Christian events: Christ's birth, the feast of the Circumcision, and Good Friday. The topic of these poems places them within a genre of Christian literature popular during the 17th century and places Milton alongside of poets like John Donne ...
Christian images (7 C, 77 F) S. Saints in art (7 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Christian art" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
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The writings of a Christian poet are not necessarily classified as Christian poetry nor are writings of secular poets dealing with Christian material. The themes of poetry are necessarily hard to pin down, and what some see as a Christian theme or viewpoint may not be seen by others. A number of modern writers are widely considered to have ...