#religious-iconography

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fromAnOther
1 week ago

Gareth McConnell's Quotidian Portrait of East London Street Life

Gareth McConnell doesn't see things like everyone else. He sees the world in technicolour, as his photographs of wild horses illuminated in neon light and his psychedelic flower arrangements attest. His take on street photography is equally vivid. In his new photo book, Window, published by Sorika, McConnell brings together beautifully grainy crops of scenes from his bedroom window in east London - a supermarket carpark, a funeral car passing by, strangers going about their day.
Photography
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

New Medieval Books: Images of Thomas Becket in the Middle Ages and Beyond - Medievalists.net

The present collection builds upon this recent body of scholarship. It embraces the expanded framework of visual and material culture studies to explore a spectrum of objects executed in a broad range of media.
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fromOpen Culture
5 months ago

How Our Depiction of Jesus Changed Over 2,000 Years and What He May Have Actually Looked Like

Depictions of Jesus in art often diverge from biblical descriptions, presenting a glamorous image contrary to the historical context of a 1st-century Jew.
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