Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Reconciliation (originally named Reunion) is a sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos. Originally created in 1977 and entitled Reunion , it depicted a man and woman embracing each other ]. [ 1 ] In May 1998 it was presented to University of Bradford as a memorial to the university's first vice-chancellor, Professor Ted Edwards. [ 2 ]
The iconic image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam The Sistine Chapel ceiling , painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance . Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known, the hands of God and Adam ...
The scenes alternate between smaller and larger pictures, with the former framed by two pairs of ignudi flanking a medallion. [92] The first group depicts God creating the Heavens and the Earth. The second group shows God creating the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, and their disobedience of God and consequent expulsion from the Garden of ...
Jesus hands Judas the sop, Tilman Riemenschneider, Holy Blood Altar, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 1501–05. The first episode, much the most common in Western Medieval art, [13] is the dramatic and dynamic moment of Jesus' announcement of his betrayal.
Virgin and Child. Wall painting from the early catacombs, Rome, 4th century. Early Christian art survives from dates near the origins of Christianity, although many early Christians associated figurative art with pagan religion, and were suspicious or hostile towards it. Over time, this lessened.
The text on the wall says "mene, mene, tekel, parsin". Biblical scholars interpret this to mean "God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; your kingdom is given to the Medes and Persians". [1] The inscription on the wall is an interesting element in this painting.
[Michael] is always represented by the ecclesiastical Byzantine painters as a young warrior of surpassing beauty, standing on the body of an old dead man, with wings expanded, and holding a flaming sword in his right, and a pair of scales in his left hand, in order to show that with the first he took his soul, and with the second he weighs the ...
David is a bronze statue of the biblical hero by the Italian Early Renaissance sculptor Donatello, probably made in the 1440s. Nude except for helmet and boots, it is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance , and the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity.