Art: Whitewashing Jesus
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Why has the portrayal of Jesus in art drifted far from the likelihood he was a brown-skinned Semitic Jew?
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To engage with an artwork, especially contemporary works, can be a daunting task.
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Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus is one of my favorite paintings.  I actually own a print in my bedroom.  I was amazed at how well Google image search did on this query   Literally 90% of the images are perfect captures of the painting...
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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JERUSALEM: A forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artefacts was cracked yesterday. Police said the ring forged what were presented as perhaps the
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A co-op of painters in Tibet are attempting to remake a culture bound by centuries of tradition and hemmed in by narrow stereotypes.
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Key graphics product touched up with tools to mimic oils and watercolors.
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Benedetto XVI analizza la figura di san Giovanni Crisostomo
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A miraculous image of Jesus Christ in the froth of an almost empty pint of beer is to be used as an advert to encourage more Britons to go to church this Christmas, it has been announced.
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A chemist who worked on testing of the Shroud of Turin says new analysis of the fiber indicates the cloth that some say was the burial linen of Jesus could be up to 3,000 years old.
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DUBAI (Reuters Life!) - Senegalese artist Amadou Kan-Si's paintings might not be in the typically distinctive geometric and calligraphic style of most Islamic art but they are meant to capture moments of spirituality in Muslim prayer.
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Was there a historical Jesus? And if so, was he the child of a deity that looks like pasta? Share your wisdom on the Wired Wiki.
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Dartmouth College computer scientists create software that uses statistical techniques to authenticate art, to sort out real works from fakes. Their first finding: A painting purportedly by Perugino may have been done by four different artists. By Noah Shachtman.
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A half-finished painting in a Greek Orthodox church of Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin cutting off the beard of a Christian saint has offended traditionalists who want the revolutionary painted over.
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JERUSALEM -- Archeologists in Jerusalem have identified the remains of the Siloam Pool, where the Bible says Jesus miraculously cured a man's blindness, researchers said yesterday -- underlining a stirring link between the works of Jesus and ancient Jewish rituals.
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Just because the icon Pope John Paul II sent to the Russian Orthodox Church is an 18th-century copy does not mean it is a fake. &quot;In the West, people think of a &#39;real&#39; original
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Three watercolours by JMW Turner are to be exhibited together in an attempt to stop one leaving the country.