Sentences with phrase «biblical subjects»

Behind the subject of sin itself, hell is the second most unpleasant of biblical subjects.

At one time, it was assumed that a religious movie was a film with biblical subject matter.

F. D. Dillistone, former Bishop of Liverpool, once suggested that artists dealing with biblical subject matter have two ways to go.

I am not Baptist nor do i intend to become a member of this church but I am thankful for the pastor letting me attend bible study despite our very different beliefs on biblical subjects.

Dutch Calvinism forbade religious painting in churches, and though biblical subjects were acceptable in private homes, relatively few were produced.

Schama's analyses of Rembrandt's paintings of biblical subjects (as well as of Rubens's commissions from Oratorians, Jesuits and other Catholic factions) reflect a sound knowledge of the visual and doctrinal traditions that shaped them.

According to the above argument, art does not have to have biblical subject matter to be «religious.»

(I would also recommend this site: The Biblical Resource Database, for hundreds of articles and resources regarding almost any Biblical subject imaginable.

Rembrandt participated in this consumer paradise as artist, art dealer and collector of exotic artifacts that often lend picturesque credibility to his biblical subjects.

The biblical subject of prayer expands and fulfills the classical philosophical subject of wonder.

During the last four years of his life Martin was engaged in a trilogy of large paintings of biblical subjects: The Last Judgment, The Great Day of His Wrath, and The Plains of Heaven, of which two were bequeathed to Tate Britain in 1974, the other having been acquired for the Tate some years earlier.

The grey - bearded man depicted here in profile appears in other works by the artist, primarily with a biblical subject.

In this new series of ink line drawings Jim Shaw applies the aesthetics of the early 1960's DC superhero comics (focusing on the expressionist elements of the comics such as representations of explosions, speed and forces of nature) to the notion of heroic paintings with mythological and biblical subjects that vary from the battle between the Egyptian gods Horus and Seth to the parable of Jacob's wrestling with God and being renamed Israel.

To create these works, Al - Hadid loosely paints over projections of historical paintings, often of Biblical subjects.

The Northern Renaissance German painter, etcher, engraver, draughtsman and architect, active mainly in Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer is best known for his paintings of historical and Biblical subjects, set in atmospheric landscapes, such as Battle of Alexander at Issus (1529, Alte Pinakothek, Munich) and Christ Taking Leave of His Mother (1520, National Gallery, London).

[1] After returning he continued to paint biblical subjects, and also produced Gangster Funeral, a narrative which Levine referred to as a «comedy».

Both Roberts and Spencer may have chosen to depict a Biblical subject in response to the horror and suffering they had experienced throughout World War I.

As well as modern German themes, his art contains references to Nordic mythology, Jewish mysticism, Biblical subjects and the life of Mao Zedong.

Waterhouse was also influenced by Frederic Leighton, a sculptor and painter who painted classical, historical and biblical subjects.