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What does spikenard have to do with St Joseph?
The coat of arms of Pope Francis includes references to Jesus (the sun with cross, nails, and IHS), Mary (the star) and Joseph (the cluster of flowers).
The association of the flowers with St ...
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What is the earliest point in history where the cross icon started showing up on artifacts related to Christianity?
I can’t imagine the cross would have become an art-piece while the Romans were still killing Christians. The cross symbol during the persecutions must have in some way seemed similar to the Nazi ...
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The Bible and art
I was wondering what instructions, if any, the bible places on the creation of art. I imagine anything that is forbid by the Bible would be disallowed to be put in a piece of art, but I can not seem ...
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Is Knuth's 3:16 project unique?
Famous computer scientist Donald Knuth is also the author of 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated (A-R Editions, 1990). This is a tour of the Bible using the methodology of "stratified random sampling", where ...
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What are halos?
Art (particularly Christian art, it seems) is filled with halos. There's halos on Jesus at the Last Supper; Jesus, Moses, and Elijah at the transfiguration; on angels; the virgin Mary; etc.
What ...
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What does the Bible say about the appearance of angels?
In Christian art, angels are often depicted as winged human-like creatures. However, I'm curious if there is any justification for this in the Bible? I've sometimes heard that there isn't, so that's ...
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Sybils and Prophetesses in the Sistine Chapel
For what purpose did Michelangelo add each Sybils or Prophetesses to the ceiling of the Sistine chapel?
This is an explanation to why they're there in the first place.
The latter, although ...
