enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifix_(Cimabue,_Santa...

   Cimabue achieves a masterful handling of colour; medieval churches tended to be extremely colourful, with frescoed walls, painted capitals, and gold leaf paintings. [8] Pale tonalities dominate, with the main contrast found in the dark areas of Christ's hair and beard, which are utilised to make the features of his face stand out more and position his head as the focal point.

3. Giotto's Crucifix at Santa Maria Novella - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto's_Crucifix_at_Santa...

   Giotto's Crucifix at Santa Maria Novella is a cross painted in tempera and gold on wood panel (578 x 406 cm) by Giotto di Bondone around 1290-1295. The crucifix is preserved in the center of the nave of Florence's Santa Maria Novella basilica. It is one of the earliest known works by the artist, then in his early twenties.

4. The 85 best sitewide sales to shop during Cyber Monday - AOL

   www.aol.com/lifestyle/the-best-sitewide-sales-to...

   This sale has been wildly popular with our readers this year, so shop before things start to fall out of stock. $130 at Nordstrom. Getty images. Up to 80% off furniture at Wayfair.

5. Crucifix of Pisa - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifix_of_Pisa

   The Crucifix of Pisa is a painting of the crucifixion painted on wood panel, dating to sometime around 1230 and currently in the Museo nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa, Italy. Its anonymous author is referred to as the Byzantine Master of the Crucifix of Pisa. He was an Italian painter active in Pisa in the first half of the thirteenth century.

6. Christian cross variants - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cross_variants

   It is primarily used in Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox churches (where the figure is painted), and it emphasizes Christ's sacrifice—his death by crucifixion. It is also used on most rosaries, a Catholic tool for prayer. Altar cross: A cross on a flat base to rest upon the altar of a church. The earliest known ...

7. Lithuanian cross crafting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_cross_crafting

   The crosses are intricately carved of oak wood, and sometimes incorporate iron elements as well. Their craftsmen, known as kryždirbiai , travel across the country. The most renowned Lithuanian cross crafter and god carver was the self-taught Vincas Svirskis (1835–1916), whose crosses, once seen across central Lithuania, are now kept in ...