Christian Art

Anglo-Saxon will always be my favorite

2 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

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What would you prefer?

What did he mean by this?

That being a modernist doesn't mean you have to be a shitty painter.

Might be nationality thing but i like this painting by Albert Edelfelt. Christ and Magdalena.

>being idolators

I really like this guy

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Vanity of vanities says the preacher, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!

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preacher can suck my sloppy joe sunday

Pict memes

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Viking Jesus

>being an iconoclast

This one's from Sierra Leone. Portuguese got local ivory carvers to make Jesus ivories and brought them back as souvenirs.

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Check out St Peter, he's the man.

St. Mark's in Venice. It's the most beautiful cathedral in the world imo

From around 425-50 AD.

Some Byzantine thing.

More Byznaitne stuff

High crosses are aesthetic as fuck

Good opinion. That place is absolutely mind-blowing.

I mean it

I'm gonna risk sounding like a schizo, but I've had dreams of a cross surrounded by stars before. Just like that one. I'm a fedora....is this a sign?

Looks gorgeous

Another Bazingium one. I don't know what's going on but it's a psaltar so I guess its some Christian thign.

I had a dream the other night that it snowed outside really heavily and the whole outdoors was blanketed in white, but when I went outside it had already melted. Pissed me off. I just want some lovely snow.

Here comes the Irish metalwork, because here it comes.

wow

arm

bling bling

Tell me about St. Lachtin. Why does he wear the arm?

Imagine you're a bishop and you carry this around and everyone looks at it.

I loved stuff like Lascaux cave paintings.

This one became the model for a sports trophy thing.

It seems he was the first to preach Christianity in Ballylongford.

Another one.

Then go to a Modern Art course.

I don't know how a belt can be a shrine, but here you have it.

I've seen that one irl

A comfy little house shrine

hmm really makes you think

Another one.

Okay that's enough of that.

Same. National Museum's full of the good shit.

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Okay here's some Carolonigian shit.

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horse

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This is a facsimile but you take what you get

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How is it that early Christians did not depict Jesus as it was idolatry, but later Christians are fine with it?

Might as well throw in the Ottonians too.

I wish I could afford an original King James Bible.

They stuck some Roman stuff on this one, to score some WEWUZ points.

Same thing happened with Buddhists, Hindus (I think) and to a lesser extent Muslims. Nothing can suppress the power of pretty pictures.

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This one's got Down Syndrome.

Because early Christians were still rooted in Jewish Culture where not having idols was kind of the norm.

When people from Pagan areas started converting, they still wanted nice pictures of their God, because it was what they were used to.

It's always been a recurring debate, though.

Some arguments for it were that images were Gospels of the poor, or that pictures inspire deeper feelings in a viewer than abstract sermons. You go there, see Jesus on the cross, and feel his pain

Some Ethiopian stuff.

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Well Muslims managed to make pretty stuff without damning their own souls.

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INCOMING LADS

also.

The Scroll of Feels.

Yeah, but even they started drawing Muhammad after a while. They were just more adamant about using them in worship.

>Yeah, but even they started drawing Muhammad after a while
That was really just Persians.

The Morgan Bible was made as a gift to them

One of the oldest Christian illuminated manuscripts, from the 5th-6th centuries.

Why is some dude holding that outside?

It started with Persians and Mongols but it spread to Turks and Turko-Indians too. It was only Arabs who never depicted him (maybe Iraqis did, I'm not sure).

I did not know about the Morgan Bible, that's cool.

Also here's some Mughal Christian art. Or at least studies of Christian art.

It was kept in some tiny isolated medieval monastery until recently, so I guess they had to take it outside to get a well lit picture. It's been restored and is kept in a kind of mini-museum now though.

Arabic Orthodox Chant احمدوا الرب
youtube.com/watch?v=8-EfW7gYzns

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Here's some Japanese Christian art. It's supposed to be the Battle of Lepanto, though it's apparently based on a painting of the Battle of Zama, hence the SPQR flags.

Yes, oh omnipresent authority figure?

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metal

It's from Ecclesiastes you dolt

Ecclesiastes is a load of shit.

>""""""""""""christian"""""""""""" art

>can't appreciate pretty art unless his meme book tells him to

Cimabue is a fucking legend

Anyone know where I can find more of this one. Which artist? Which denomination of Christianity, etc?

It's Orthodox.

>God creates man in his image
>God is a creator who creates things in his image
>Man is not allowed to

Really activates the almonds