A self-proclaimed ecclesiastical artist, Mr. Esparza helps maintain many of the lavishly decorated and somewhat campy Texas churches built by communities of Czech, German and Hispanic immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Rich patrons, both secular and ecclesiastical, nurtured artists with commissions for paintings and sculptures.
Appropriation of traditional ecclesiastical style by postmodern artists usually comes out of a critical impulse — as in, most famously, Andres Serrano's photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine.
The parallel loss of ecclesiastical patronage created a crisis for native craftsmen and artists, who turned to secular patrons.
The loss of ecclesiastical patronage created a crisis for native craftsmen and artists, who turned to secular patrons.
Mr. Rainaldi, the artist, was chosen because he had worked on several ecclesiastical commissions, and the foundation was confident that he could interpret the pope's spirit.
They also went because of the increasingly strict requirements for artists who executed religious subjects; these rules were imposed by an ecclesiastical council in 1555 and reinforced in Mexico by the establishment of an artists' guild in 1557.
The loss of ecclesiastical patronage that resulted from the Reformation created a crisis for native craftsmen and artists, who turned to secular patrons.
Romancing The Stone is a new series in which Alastair Sooke examines the three great ages of British sculpture, beginning with the ecclesiastical building programme of the medieval period; later, Mark Lawson talks with superstar sculptor Anthony Caro, discussing the artist's life and work, as well as his views on public art.
Unlike their Italian counterparts, 15th-century bronze artists in Germany and the Low Countries were still under the spell of Gothic art, and ecclesiastical implements predominated.
