Christianity through the eyes of Chinese painters is something quite remarkable. The fusion of Western and Chinese techniques goes back as far as the Ming Dynasty
That’s beautiful and you’re right that the halo effect is very cool. Joseph also happens to look like a dirtbag- I feel like he’s going to try to sell me an assortment of random pills he’s scavenged from people
Yeah, very interesting how some iconography got maintained (like the halo, the winged angels, the dark blue sky for Mary) and other got either applied unduly (I think the last painting is of two old men lifting on a young girl, they wouldn’t have half in European paintings) or forgotten (the knife of Judas during the last supper).
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Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 26 pts · 312d
I recently found this one in Lyon in Notre-Dame de Fourvière and really liked how they used the halo as light source
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 312d
That’s beautiful and you’re right that the halo effect is very cool. Joseph also happens to look like a dirtbag- I feel like he’s going to try to sell me an assortment of random pills he’s scavenged from people
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 23 pts · 312d
I like the part where Jesus' younger brother fails his test in China and then starts a rebellion, and decides to overthrow the government.
Taiping Rebellion
Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 312d
These are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
morto@piefed.social · 9 pts · 312d
In the first image, legend says that Jesus is about to perform the miracle of hair restoration
criticon@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 312d
Steve "Jesus" Aoki
nnullzz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 312d
It’s neat to see that in the last image, all different types of things are observing what seems like Mary and baby Jesus just going for a stroll.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 312d
Idk what it is, but those clouds are beautiful
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 312d
I love clouds in Chinese art
Hello_there@fedia.io · 3 pts · 312d
Where's Judas?
Eq0@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 312d
Yeah, very interesting how some iconography got maintained (like the halo, the winged angels, the dark blue sky for Mary) and other got either applied unduly (I think the last painting is of two old men lifting on a young girl, they wouldn’t have half in European paintings) or forgotten (the knife of Judas during the last supper).
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 312d
Jesus ate him.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 312d
Assuming that’s the Last Supper in the first image then he’s somewhere in it because there are 12 people with Jesus
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 304d
Will now mostly be posting on !visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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