Religion plays a crucial and timeless role in art across generations. Faith could be a hard concept to grasp or explain. How do you example something that is felt, something that explains miracles? When the roman people couldn’t fully grasp or explain the holiness of Christ and the Bible they depicted it in mosaics covering the entire roman world. Halos were drawn around Christ, the Apostles, and Jesus’s mother Mary to show holiness. The Four Evangelists is a painting on canvas that shows a Catholic Christiana artist’s attempt to illustrate faith or, more specifically the faith of Jesus’ apostles. The only test of his success remains in the viewers own mind and realization. Contrary to Christian beliefs depicted through symbolism, asian art
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These oceanic images represent the distance the apostles traveled. The messages hidden within this canvas make it unique and yet mainstream all at one time. For one, hidden allegories make a painting unique. It gives the canvas, it’s own special meanings and stories. However, since most Christian paintings held deep Biblical symbolism, it ends up separating this canvas into a group with the others distinguished by the time period. Other important things to note include the deep colors and clothing of the apostles. Unlike some Christian art at this time the apostles are completely clothed. The attention is not drawn to their clothes, or lack of clothes, instead it is to the Biblical symbolism as mentioned …show more content…
First of all, there are many obvious differences between the two. The Four Evangelists is about eight times the size of the Decorative Niche with Krishna. Also, it has color because it was made with oils on Canvas, whereas the Niche was carve out of Teak. However, compared to the intricate sign of the Niche, the Canvas is made with simple, plain, and bold shapes. Christian art shows faith through the art literally. A cup in John’s hand resemble’s poison, but also calls to remembrance his faith in the same moment. Christ, his mother, and the apostles are depicted as holy and therefore have literal halos. In the hindu art, their images are also literal but in a different sense of the word. They are not ashamed of showing “literal” lavished bodies, and jeweled
These oceanic images represent the distance the apostles traveled. The messages hidden within this canvas make it unique and yet mainstream all at one time. For one, hidden allegories make a painting unique. It gives the canvas, it’s own special meanings and stories. However, since most Christian paintings held deep Biblical symbolism, it ends up separating this canvas into a group with the others distinguished by the time period. Other important things to note include the deep colors and clothing of the apostles. Unlike some Christian art at this time the apostles are completely clothed. The attention is not drawn to their clothes, or lack of clothes, instead it is to the Biblical symbolism as mentioned …show more content…
First of all, there are many obvious differences between the two. The Four Evangelists is about eight times the size of the Decorative Niche with Krishna. Also, it has color because it was made with oils on Canvas, whereas the Niche was carve out of Teak. However, compared to the intricate sign of the Niche, the Canvas is made with simple, plain, and bold shapes. Christian art shows faith through the art literally. A cup in John’s hand resemble’s poison, but also calls to remembrance his faith in the same moment. Christ, his mother, and the apostles are depicted as holy and therefore have literal halos. In the hindu art, their images are also literal but in a different sense of the word. They are not ashamed of showing “literal” lavished bodies, and jeweled