#religiousart — Public Fediverse posts

Insomnia Ad Nauseum

here i am 
again
losing sleep
worry my
companion
reading 
news of
tragedy 
in a vain
attempt 
to grow so 
exhausted
that i 
drop off
when 
prayer
should be 
my only 
friend

August 17, 2015

Went to the National Gallery; enjoyed the fifteenth-c Death of St Claire, especially the two praying nuns with their obsequial-processionals. But don't get too comfortable with the accuracy of detail -- elsewhere in the image we see Margaret holding her cutiepie of a dragon... #art #ReligiousArt #15thc #medieval #NationalGallery

Intent: The Cossack crosses at Odessa’s oldest cemetery will be digitized and displayed on a map. “An international project has been launched in Odesa to study and digitally preserve the Kuyalnik Cossack Cemetery, which is considered the oldest in the city. As part of the project, an open online platform and an interactive map will be created, and a digital album featuring stone Cossack […]

Vanderbilt University: Vanderbilt’s Art in the Christian Tradition database launches major update. “Vanderbilt Divinity Library has launched a comprehensive redesign of its Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) website, fully integrating this database of more than 7,000 religious images with the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) platform to support digital scholarship and worship. The updated […]

Since it is the Feast of St John The Baptist, here is one of the many Renaissance portraits of him as a young man in the wilderness. It's by Giovanni Lanfranco.
#StJohnTheBaptist #StJohn #Renaissance #ItalianArt #ReligiousArt #art

Joseph et Pharaon — N.º 25 — Made for Pierre Agopian - Alexandrie, Égypte

https://www.cpaphil.com/fr/carte-postale/cpa-egypt-egypte-joseph-et-pharaon

#JosephAndPharaoh #BiblicalHistory #AncientEgypt #JosephInEgypt #Pharaoh #BibleStory #OldTestament #EgyptianCivilization #ReligiousArt #HistoricalPostcard #VintagePostcard

Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s

etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/1839982/source

#Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums

I've been gradually replacing my Jehovah's Witness library. I use the books for research, as I'm writing religious horror based on JW beliefs. I lent my books to a prof over twenty years ago and he never returned them.

Here are some of my favourite illustrations from "Revelation Its Grand Climax at Hand!"

#ExJW #Surrealism #angels #Revelation #SurrealArt #ReligiousArt

I don't know why Trump's getting zinged for posting an image of himself as Jesus on his social media app, do U?
But in the meantime some rascal has already done a parody version:

#Trump #ReligiousArt #USPolitics

A solitary sentinel against the gathering storm.

Peterborough. South Australia.

© All Rights Reserved by Kev Peirce.

#Photo #Photography #Australia #Church #SouthAustralia #Cross #BlackAndWhite #Architecture #Monochrome #Gothic #ReligiousArt #StormySky

It is no coincidence that the mandorla — the almond-shaped halo around Christ or the Virgin Mary — mirrors the vulva’s form. Named after the Italian for “almond,” it symbolises the threshold between worlds, the sacred gateway through which divine light and incarnation enter the human realm.

#catholicism #ArtHistory #iconography
#symbolism #ReligiousArt #medievalArt
#ChristianArt #aesthetics

🙏 Christ bound to the column, sorrowful gaze… The Flagellation sculpture at Bom Jesus de Braga is of rare intensity. Religious art at its finest. ✝️ #BomJesus #Jesus #Christ #Braga #Portugal #ReligiousArt #Sculpture #Faith #Passion #Baroque #History #Heritage #Portugal #travel #photography

Before heading to teh St. Servatius Basilica in #Maastricht, we visited the #BonnefantenMuseum on the same day. Here are some reflections of that visit along with some photos I took there:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-01-02-bonnefanten_museum/

#WeekendStories #Museum #ChristianArt #ReligiousArt #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt