Sentences with phrase «painted religious icons»

The church interior is decorated extensively with ornately painted religious icons.

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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.

Art and such intellectual life as existed was nourished in them, and the icons were painted which were means of strengthening the religious life and became prominent in Russian Christianity.

An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn image) is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy

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It is filled with beautiful examples of the «Cusco School» style of paintings, gold and religious icons.

For the majority of viewers, this show will be a revelatory introduction to an artist who is best known for «The Rose,» a legendary and inimitable work that is both a densely built - up painting and a wall relief, a religious icon that weighs 2300 pounds.

In a time when the word icon can mean anything from commercialized images that flood the media to religious icons, the paintings of Linda Smith, Secular Icons, help to fill a void in contemporary icons, the paintings of Linda Smith, Secular Icons, help to fill a void in contemporary Icons, help to fill a void in contemporary life.

In Vicuña's paintings, religious icons are replaced by personal, political and literary figures, and some were previously exhibited in her 1973 exhibition (Pain Things & Explanations) at London's ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts).

As the exhibit progresses, animals become more prominent, finally exploding in the last gallery with dynamic paintings of birds, including a magnificent Raven with the brooding intensity of a religious icon on a monumental scale more usually associated with contemporary realism.

Brazilian artist, Ana Smile, has created a bit of controversy with her company Santa Blasphemy, which creates plaster religious statues painted in the form of pop - culture icons such as Batman, Frida Kahlo, Catwoman, Captain Hopper, The Joker, and Minnie Mouse.

In this light the fate of many a 15th C religious icon paintings could be recalled.

Painted in formal and spiritual unity, the diamonds, rectangles, and zigzags that comprise these sequences suggest foundational real - world materials: bricks, religious icons, single - celled organisms — things of which history and culture are formed.

With images, icons, symbols and figures relating to Ireland's religious, medicinal, corporeal and cultural histories, Mark O'Kelly's ambitious history painting is interwoven with elements of conceptual and renaissance art history.

In Vicuña's paintings, religious icons are replaced by personal, political, and literary figures, commemorated and mythologized by the artist.

November 1: Russian Icon Paintings Repatriated Seventy religious icons have been donated to the Russian Orthodox Church by a Russian property developer.

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.

Two Marilyns, 1962, and Twenty Jackies, 1964, exemplify Warhol's mixture of the techniques of mass reproduction with the older, established painting genres of religious icons or portraiture.

(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.)