Religious Art

One of my favorite religious works of art is an Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa.
I saw the original in person and it was a very powerful experience.

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I have many favorite icons:

Wish I could ,but it would get into that "sticky" area of religious discussions. Not sure how the two could be civilly separated. Amazing artworks done to a religious theme over the centuries, aside from Icons being forbidden in many monotheistic religions.


Any way here is one of my more favorite renditions:

religion isn't allowed in the forum.


---Mike Savad

Religion is allowed Mike…just not the discussion of it. If I say "Have a nice day" that could be my religious greeting.

Actually, a cool discussion would be how religious figures are portrayed in art from cultures that are not indigenously esoteric to the nationality of the figure represented.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Touched_by_His_Noodly_Appendage.jpg

Not a favorite icon, but this is one of mine, & I just wanted to enter the show. ; )



This one may seem a little 'strange' but it is some of my religion-art.


Both of these were sold long ago.

Wingsdomain Art,

your image entitled Angels in the Sky reminded me of a story I read about
Padre Pio ..

"There are many stories concerning Allied pilots who attempted to bomb San Giovanni but were stopped by an apparition of a
'monk' standing in the air with his arms outstretched." "There are fliers who swore that they had sighted a figure in the sky, sometimes normal
size, sometimes gigantic, usually in the form of a monk or priest. The sightings were too frequent and the reports came from too many sources to be totally
discounted. "

The Shroud Of Turin.

Still a mystery...

Still a mystery image no matter who it "portends" to be.

Lovely works... I don't have any icons in the strict sense of the word, but here is one of my images that's the closest. This is a huge 175 year old window in the front of one of the Churches I attend Mass at:

Yes... I mean Turin. Thank you Tony

I tende too doo thate when I'me in a hurrie.... :)

I don't consider it an Icon for me... but I do know there are a great many that do consider it that way. I am intrigued by the mystery of it.

yeah i remember the last time we had a religious thing pop up here by bill and it wasn't allowed then either.

---Mike Savad

Well so far it's been about art.

That is true Tony... It's not about religion, it's about art. Some of the oldest and best art in the world was inspired by religion.

yeah that other thread supposedly was also.


---Mike Savad

photo montage:

Inspired by the Garden of Eden


Click & look for hidden objects : )

Inspired by a favorite (very old!) movie --

Who put Willie Nelson's picture on a shroud?
And who is Turin?

It's only the catholic church that insists there is still a mystery about the Turin shroud, following the carbon dating.

Now, the images of icons at the start of this could have led to a potentially interesting discussion of the way Orthodox icon painting became fossilised into a severely restrictive representation of different figures, and the value - or otherwise - of an art form that is bound by such rigid rules that its objective is to imitate, as closely as possible, the images which preceded it.
It is art without originality - a paintbrush-driven photocopier.
Isn't there something interesting about that? Even without getting into religion.

Thom And Jerry Present Yet Another Shroud

Wow! Ed! A blue-eyed Jew! Now there's a miracle!

Hahahaaaa!!!!
it was the transitional moment...

hey Paul , there is a lots of blue - eyed Jews :)

Are there? I bet there weren't 2,000 years ago.

And there's Mariam, looking suspiciously like a nice Irish redhead! No wonder the boy had blue eyes.

artists/people tend to think the saintly ones look like them ... artistic license .... a good thing ....

Sorry Paul i didn't elaborate... the transitional moment (see Shroud of Turin) when his eyes turned blue was from Jew to Gentile... +>))


Other religions have their icons too...

Put on the art
Stop the discussion

Please read the rules before posting or be removed

For Paul :-)
Jesus is Chinese!


Buddhas Delight

- Seven-branched Temple Menorah (Mosaic designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in 1987 for the Church of Saint Barbara in Bärnbach, Austria)

Here is my painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which hangs in our home. In Mexico I saw the original in 1980. A framed print has sold here on FAA.

so nice to see so much diversity!

I know He enjoys a good joke (sorry Beth)

For those who believe in angels.....

From my "Inspired by Scripture" gallery =

Here are some of mine...

A digital piece done entirely in Photoshop with the use of some downloaded paint brushes.

Many beautiful and inspirational works of art here, makes me wish I could do more:

This piece has sold here on FAA and has a religious tone I suppose. Looking over the images I have on here I notice that most of the "religious" based photos I have posted are related to a faith I'm not even a part of (The Mormon Church).

I took a photo of this Religious lawn ornament from the street. It was located directly next to the steps to the house which was extremely close to the sidewalk. I used Photoshop to obscure the background and steps to the door by duplicating the shrubbery from the right, flipping it horizontally, and pasting it on the left side with some cloning, shading, and gradient colors to hide the house siding.

The Christmas card I sent several years ago; I try to make
my own card every year ....

beautiful art. my parent inlaws would love ths art

I'm not Christian, but I love the beauty in the art.
Here are a couple of mine that I did in digital art and photography.

I loved painting this but it always makes me so incredibly sad :( took about 36 hours in my digital studio ;~} Val z

I love photographing churches and their surroundings knowing what an important role they play in the lives of those who attend. These are churches in North Central Louisiana.

I have just started a series of "religious" pictures and am in negotiations with a company that wants as many as I can produce. (Woo Hoo!)

December 12th: Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe; Patroness of the Americas ....

Two views of faith

I'm pretty new to all this but I thought I'd jump in. This piece (should it show up...) is the direction I'd like to pursue; how faith can transform a life.

Here are two of mine.

I am so glad this Thread was started....I am seeing some beautiful art here. Here are a couple of my newest.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/path-to-christ-sharon-elliott.html
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/pieta-sharon-elliott.html