Iconography

dream that initiated the rise of Christianity . Visions of Christ had told him in this dream to paint the first letter of Jesus’s last name on his army’s shields and for the spears to be made into crosses . With the legions adorn with Christian iconography, they marched into battle and claimed victory over their enemies. A triumph declared and an arch was erected depicting the story of the conquest. Constantine rode his horse a transformed man, pranced…

Throughout history, people have used art not only as decorations but also to tell stories. And each culture through time had a different story to tell and a way of telling it. In Egyptian works we see stories of the celebrations of life and death. For example, in the Funerary Stele of Amenemhat from around 2000 BCE, we see a picture of the family of four in a celebration where the father and son are in a moment of intimacy embracing each other. As I examine Funerary Stele of Amenemhat, I see the…

Kassandra Valle Jones 1 Dracula Essay 27 December 2014 Christian Tradition in Dracula In Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel, Dracula published in 1897, Christianity is often portrayed through a positive light. Corresponding to most gothic/horror based literature books; many of them have Christian symbolism. The actions taken by the vampire Dracula are faintly similar to many features of Christianity, yet they are metaphorically/darkly misleading. If count Dracula is meant to symbolize the devil…

Education is a resource that is available to most people in the United States. The value and the ways it is administered often various from person to person. Michelle Obama and Mike Rose are both advocates of educational value. They exhibit their positions on education in two documents; Blue-Collar Brilliance by Mike Rose and Bowie State University Commencement Speech by Michelle Obama. Rose’s document focuses on the degrading of educational attributes that are not gained in the preferred…

art in Rome having its own local styles, the Romans continued to be influenced by the Greek. This influence is highly obvious in their sculptures, paintings, art and architecture. They associated their own gods with Greek gods and adopted Greek iconography; collectors would even import Greek works worldwide in massive numbers. Roman’s architecture and interior has contributed to many architecture and interior feats…

vanitas: The vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art. vanitas it is linked with still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre linked with symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, As applied to vanitas art, the word is drawn from the biblical book. The vanitas has a lot of symbols there are two different types the first one is still life object and the second one is still life nature. object such as skulls, rotten fruit, bubbles, smoke, watches, hourglasses, and…

The Middle Ages or the Dark ages? The Middle ages in Europe started around 500 A.D. and lasted for about 1000 years. It started with the downfall of Rome, which was resulted in the disruption in trade, downfall of cities and population shift from urban to the countryside. This made Europe stop growing as a society because the lack of trade lead to interchange stops, lack of cities lead to a stunt in the educational system, when the population moved countryside any progression stopped in general.…

Michelangelo’s Florentine Pieta Michelangelo’s Florentine Pieta (ca.1547-1555) is a 226cm, marble sculpture depicting the scene where Christ’s body is released to his mother, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea. As such, the iconography is classic Renaissance in terms of representing religious figures using sculpturing techniques and materials (marble in this case) previously applied in Greco-Roman art such as proportionality, balance and enhanced realism using marble thus…

fame and fortune. The halo that is above the anonymous boxer in Per Capita also sits atop Joe Louis’ head in this painting, and similarly on the anonymous prisoner in one of Basquiat’s unknown drawings. This is rather interesting as Christian iconography refers to the halo as a symbol of piety and more importantly a martyred or sanctified status. One can conjecture that these black figures appear in Basquiat’s paintings so commonly, besides being saints in his own mind, have martyred themselves…

I first saw Emily Carr’s paintings in a book of great Canadian artists within the library of my Ontario public school. In this book was the painting created in 1935 called Scorned as Timber, Beloved as the Sky. This painting depicts a tall tree rejected as being too spindly for good lumber that is left standing in clearcut forest against the feathered shimmering sky. The painting had a unusually quality that depicts a place that was impossible to go, yet to surrounds Canadian’s everyday the…