Sentence examples for religious portrait from inspiring English sources

But if the religious portrait of the nation were a great stained-glass window, those leaders would represent only a few large pieces of glass.

After a decade of the culture wars -- of politicians nibbling away at the National Endowment for the Arts, of Congress and artists dueling about what is fit for America to see -- there was a chilling inexorableness to the most recent skirmish, when the mayor of New York tried to cut off financing for the Brooklyn Museum of Art over a religious portrait made with elephant dung.

His most popular religious portrait portrays Andersen styled like a cross between Jesus and the Virgin Mary, naked save for x-shaped nipple pasties and hands cupping large breasts.

She imagined universal godliness by morphing religious portraits of Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha.

The collection includes everything from medieval textiles to religious portraits to rosaries, but their brief is anything but conventional.

Perhaps that is because artists recognize that religious portraits, handled clumsily, can quickly lose their power, becoming trite or kitschy instead of awesome.

Jointly organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier and the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, the exhibition's mix of evocative religious portraits and bawdy genre scenes reveals Caravaggio's profound impact across 17th-century Europe.

Curators say there will be a good mix of genres including religious, portraits, landscapes, impressionists and expressionists as well as strong representation from Hungarian artists such as Jacob Bogdani who, in his day, was extremely popular in England.

Other entries in the SEP address themes in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy (see, e.g., the entry on Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy), so we will forego a comparative study here of competing religious portraits of an afterlife.

Her imagery, often highlighted with gold leaf, is abstract and gestural but refers to Renaissance-era subjects: aristocratic or religious portraits, a rendering of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.

Among the most popular exhibitions he oversaw at the Getty were "Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits" in 2005, special installations of Manet's "Bar at the Folies Bergere" in 2007 and this year's showing of Johannes Vermeer's "Woman in Blue Reading a Letter".