Sentences with phrase «medieval religious icons»

(Kassay's paintings, for example, are ostensibly made with silver, a valuable metal that invokes a separate, non-artistic system of value, not unlike medieval religious icons, which were priced by both their devotional subjects and by the amount of gold they contained.)

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I began to wander without ambition, finding myself first in medieval paintings and tapestries, walking through galleries of dark religious icons.

But his paintings have the luminous magnetism of religious icons and of the work made by Medieval and Early Renaissance manuscript illuminators who were the architects of Western painting.