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As such, the Church was forced to get rid of their icons. [52] Houses of worship belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East tend to be simple. [53] In their homes, Christians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East hang a plain Christian Cross on the eastern wall of the main room. [54]
Throughout the ages, art has been a part of the church. God designed the temple, employing artisans to create its beautiful and ornate workmanship. Churches of old included stained-glass windows created to illustrate God’s word, and even the most simple country churches often include beautiful wooden crosses and podiums.
A "Doom painting" or "Doom" is a traditional English term for a wall-painting of the Last Judgement in a medieval church. This is the moment in Christian eschatology when Christ judges souls to send them to either Heaven or Hell .
A goal you hear often in the Orthodox church is to “create heaven on earth,” whether it be in the liturgy, the architecture or, as in this case, with the images that fill the walls.
The influence of the peasant procession paintings of French artist Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884) is evident. The outer molding of the present frame is thought to be of American manufacture, while the inner liner is English, and incorporates a rosette motif found on the frames of paintings by some the Pre-Raphaelite artists.
The artist, a professor at the School of Art of Zaragoza, donated the painting to the village where he used to spend his holidays, painting it directly on the wall of the church in about 1930. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] He commented that "this is the result of two hours of devotion to the Virgin of Mercy ". [ 9 ]
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In Catholic countries, production of religious art continued, and increased during the Counter-Reformation, but Catholic art was brought under much tighter control by the church hierarchy than had been the case before. From the 18th century the number of religious works produced by leading artists declined sharply, though important commissions ...