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  2. Catholic art - Wikipedia

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    Catholic art is art produced by or for members of the Catholic Church. This includes visual art (iconography), sculpture, decorative arts, applied arts, and architecture. In a broader sense, Catholic music and other art may be included as well. Expressions of art may or may not attempt to illustrate, supplement and portray in tangible form ...

  3. List of Catholic artists - Wikipedia

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    Esther Newport, member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods; founded the Catholic Art Association [756] Guido Nincheri, artist for Catholic churches in Canada; Pope Pius XI named him Knight-Commander of the Order of Saint-Sylvester [757] Erik Olson, Swedish convert; painted a triptych in 1977 for the Vatican Museum in Rome [758]

  4. Marian art in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Madonna of humility by Domenico di Bartolo 1433 has been described as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance [35]. Catholic Marian art has expressed a wide range of theological topics that relate to Mary, often in ways that are far from obvious, and whose meaning can only be recovered by detailed scholarly analysis.

  5. Category:Catholic art - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 18 December 2023, at 15:33 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Charles Bosseron Chambers - Wikipedia

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    Charles Bosseron Chambers (C. Bosseron Chambers) (1880 - 1964) was a painter, illustrator and teacher.The Reading Eagle describes Chambers as the "Norman Rockwell of Catholic art" and reports that his paintings have become collectible. [1]

  7. Annunciation in Christian art - Wikipedia

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    The figures of the Virgin Mary and the archangel Gabriel, were favorite subjects of Roman Catholic Marian art. Works on the subject have been created by Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Jan van Eyck, Murillo, and thousands of other artists.

  8. Queen of Heaven in Catholic art - Wikipedia

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    In the early 16th century, Protestant reformers began to discourage Marian art, and some, like John Calvin and Zwingli, even encouraged its destruction.But after the Council of Trent in the mid-16th century confirmed the veneration of Marian paintings by Catholics, Mary was often painted as a Madonna with crown, surrounded by stars, standing on top of the world or the partly visible Moon.

  9. Wendy Beckett - Wikipedia

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    Wendy Mary Beckett [1] (25 February 1930 – 26 December 2018), better known as Sister Wendy, was a British Catholic religious sister and art historian [2] who became known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. [3]