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Oct 21, 2025 ∙ 7 min
Faces of Christ: Models and Echoes of Virtues
Flagellation of Christ, Abbey of St. Austremoine, Issoire, 12th century After the representations of Christ rather remote from the moral teachings of the religion (Christ as divine ruler or as harbinger of a new age), there are the stories which present him as an ideal human, or even super-human. Medieval churches were covered inside and out with tableaux of these stories. There developed a standard of depiction which made Christ and the pertinent moments of his life on earth recognizable...
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Mar 31, 2025 ∙ 10 min
Private Anguish, Public Martyrdom: the funeral monument plaque of Francesca Pitti Tornabuoni
This post is about a portrayal of maternal death and stillbirth--if you'd prefer not to read about this, please stop now. Bas-Relief of...
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Feb 26, 2025 ∙ 10 min
"Church" and "Synagogue" in Religious Art
Once early Christianity became the dominant religion in Western Europe, the Eastern story of a Jewish messiah in a culture under Roman...
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