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Feb 13, 2020 · The Kroffts’ craft developed out of several decades of marionette work, including their hugely successful “Les Poupées de Paris,” the first “adults only” puppet show, featuring naked marionettes,...
Feb 13, 2020 · The Kroffts’ craft developed out of several decades of marionette work, including their hugely successful “Les Poupées de Paris,” the first “adults only” puppet show, featuring naked marionettes,...
- The Crucifix Was Seen as Degrading
- In The Beginning There Was “The Word”
- The Staurogram
- The Chi Rho Symbol
- Graffiti Or Sacred Imagery?
- The Ivory Casket Crucifixion of Christ
- The Virtual Museum of The Cross
This was how the first Christian communities would have seen it too. Crucifixion was a form of execution designed to be both excruciating and humiliating.It was a deliberate public degradation. For pioneer Christian converts with a Judaic background, the figure of a crucified God was worse than degrading; it went against centuries of their religion...
Christ loved words and telling stories with them. “I am the Alpha and the Omega” is used multiple times in the New Testament. As Greek was the lingua franca of the eastern Mediterranean, early Christians used the Greek alphabet to create a written symbol by which they could identify each other. Words were powerful in Hebrew, too. To this day, the H...
A contender for the earliest physical representation of Christ’s cross is the Staurogram. Composed of the Greek letters Tau and Rho, its sound was reminiscent of the Greek word to crucify, “stauroo.” Used mostly in written texts from the 2nd century, it actually resembles a person on a cross.
More widespread in its coverage was the Chi Rho symbol, which combined the first two letters of Christ’s name in Greek to form an image that looked less like a cross than the Staurogram. The Chi Ro is more reminiscent of the papal crossed-keys symbol. This is no coincidence, as popes continue to use both. These symbols convey some of the imperial s...
As Christianity traveled westwards it encountered cultures that not only enjoyed graven images, but often had no written language. The first example is, notoriously, a piece of graffiti by an anonymous semi-literate in Rome. It was certainly not by the hand of a Christian and there are many reasons to be doubtful about this image. It may count as a...
My favorite contender as the first unequivocal representation of Our Lord’s death is an ivory casket, made in Rome around 420.It has all the attributes that we would recognize today.Mary and St. John mourn at the foot of the cross, while the Roman soldier Longinus is spearing the side of Christ. The victim is attached with nails. As a bonus, we can...
This crucifix is from the collection of the Museum of the Cross, the first institution dedicated to the diversity of the most powerful and far-reaching symbol in history. After ten years of preparation, the museum was almost ready to open; then came COVID-19. In the meantime, the virtual museum is starting an instagram account to engage with Aletei...
Does an artist have to die before gaining fame? Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Picasso and Banksy show how artists become famous.
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Dec 22, 2017 · He was “stricken down” by reading the 1843 parliamentary report on Britain’s child labourers, written by pioneering doctor Thomas Southwood Smith and intended to write a pamphlet titled An Appeal...
