religious art
Devotional visual works
Religious art is visual work created to express, inspire, or serve spiritual devotion.
It includes paintings, sculptures, icons, and architecture depicting sacred figures, stories, or symbols: Byzantine religious art features gold backgrounds and stylized figures, The cathedral's religious art draws thousands of pilgrims.
While the term spans traditions—Christian altarpieces, Hindu temple carvings, Islamic calligraphy—it most often refers to Christian imagery in Western contexts.
- saintCanonized holy person
- Virgin MaryMother of Christ
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- Sistine ChapelVatican worship hall
- mandalasRitual circular diagrams
iconography · altar · altarpieces · mosaic · gold leaf · reliquary · sculpture · pietà · Last Supper · Stations of the Cross · nativity scenes · crown of thorns · sacred geometry · golden ratio · hagiography · ex-voto · thangka · stained glass
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- religious educationBible college, Bible stories, Sunday school, church teachings, Sunday school teachers
- Dunhuangcave temples, cave murals, wall paintings, cave paintings, Buddhist art
- Georgian HeritageSaint George, fortresses, citadels, basilicas, monasticism
- Guatemalan artindigenous art, colonial art, jade carving, textile art, woodcarving
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
religious artcommercial art
Visual work for profit
still life · landscape painting · portraiture · domestic scenes · pop art
religious artavant-garde art
Radically innovative creative expression
Dadaism · anti-art · subversive art · conceptual art · performance art
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