So the beautiful sacred art and liturgy is essential to the faith. We know from a historical perspective, over 2,000 years of the history of the Catholic Church, there has never been a time when ...

Museums are great levelers. Inside their walls, narratives, portraits, icons and altarpieces become paintings; crucifixes, totems and temple gods become sculptures; sacred objects, out of context ...

The famous bust of Nefertiti is an example of this kind of art, which marked a departure from traditional ritual forms in favor of a more naturalistic, human approach. The Nefertiti Bust, 1352–1332 BC ...

Islamic sacred art takes a different route. It reaches past the physical restraints that bind us to this world, subordinating them to higher forms of being, to acknowledge a God who is as imperative ...

Sacred Art of the Ramayana. Story by Dr Shaleen Kumar Singh • 1mo. India, Jan. 31 ... this book is both an artistic homage and a devotional offering of a sacred heart to her deity.

Sacred Congregation of Rites, Instruction Eucharisticum mysterium (May 25th, 1967) Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum (March ...

The Catholic Art Institute is a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of traditional sacred art. From classes and artists’ workshops, to lectures, online competitions, musical ...

Sacred art, after all, must be worthy not just of museums, the public or the faithful—but of the gods. Living With the Gods: Art, Beliefs and Peoples.

More than 100 contemporary visual pieces were selected from all over the U.S. for the National Eucharistic Sacred Art Exhibit, "Do This in Memory of Me," which will be featured at the National ...

He was probably the greatest European artist ever to paint medieval churches; but chances are you’ve never heard of John Louis Petit (1801-68). He was a ...

When Father Michael of Bergamo oversaw the Capuchin Crypt, he created a sacred space, one that honored the dead and offered a space of contemplation and worship for the living. He was neither the ...