Crypto-religious art, and criticism that takes a crypto-religious approach, can substitute the appearance of a vast and indistinct meaningfulness for actual meaning.

On display also are captivating examples of Jain religious art, which largely focus on its 24 enlightened teachers called tirthankaras. The earliest such representations were found on a mottled pink ...

Understanding this hidden story in the history of Christian art has value beyond the mere cultivation of a robust understanding of art history (always a good thing, of course).

Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art is the first museum to explore the spiritual and religious dimensions in contemporary art. Through exhibitions, collections and ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent's* ...

In Blair County on Sunday, visitors will be able to experience the beauty of religious art in Altoona.Participants can visit five local places of worship, with each offering insights into ...

Such Christian criticism of aesthetics seems especially necessary in the fact of a rising mid-twentieth-century disposition to restore the figure of Jesus to contemporary art forms.

Public art and community engagement Public art installations and community-based projects offer another avenue for bridging the secular-religious divide.

SLU art history professor Cathleen Fleck is the chair of the university’s Department of Visual & Performing Arts, as well as head of its Arts Council. (The Arts Council was not consulted on the ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 16, the Springville Museum of Art held the opening reception for the 38th annual "Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah" exhibition, boasting artwork selected from more than 1000 ...

Catholic Bishops are concerned at the decline in quality of religious art and have commissioned a group of artists to take a fresh look at the subject. Report shows religious artefacts in Veritas ...