Join us on The Sacred Images Project, for in-depth discussions on the history of Christian sacred art, from the perspective of a believer, and painter.
Alessandro's bread bakery; originally built in the 13th century. It had fallen to near ruin before he decided to buy it from the city and revive it for its original purpose.
What’s the best bakery near you?
I’ll go first: Boulted Bread in Raleigh, NC. Have the best croissants in the area.
Now your turn. Drop the name of your favorite spot.
LOVE me some Netherlandish late Gothic.
Here's the downloaded whole painting from the National Gallery in London.
Mary, Queen of Heaven
c. 1485/1500
Master of the Saint Lucy Legend
Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1480 - c. 1510
These aren't angels. How did we go from the robed and winged messengers of God, rescuing foolish men from demons, to these somewhat gross flying fleshy babies in Christian art? You can thank Renaissance Humanism & its rejection of the Christian visual language. 👉🧵 👇
The Renaissance "rebirth" was not of long-lost painting techniques, mathematical perspective or anatomy; but of the values and interests of the pre-Christian classical world, the adoption of materialism and the rejection of transcendent Christian metaphysics. Read more: Link👇
In Christian theology, a cherub is an angel of a high rank, that directly attends to the throne of God, described in the Bible as having four faces, one of a human, one of a lion, one of an ox, and one of an eagle with three sets of wings.
You can read the extraordinary story of how long we've known what Christ really looked like, and how it became universalised, and what it means theologically and to our spiritual lives...
Here: https://t.co/Uoks8lt4Ig
But very abruptly, in the second half of the 6th century we start seeing something very distinctive, and quite decided. And we stuck with that depiction through every stylistic development, for over a thousand years.
What happened?