The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

elevating the lowbrow genre of velvet painting into a vehicle of greater profundity, while symbolically suggesting the Ascension, Christ’s rise from earthly body to heavenly spirit. Not every ...

the "Life of Christ" depicts the life and ascension of Jesus. It was listed in the 1986 edition of Guinness World Records as the largest religious painting. But few have seen the artwork ...

For the first time in years, parishioners can see the blues in the painting of Christ’s Ascension hanging over Grace Lutheran Church’s altar. And that’s no easy observation — some members ...

The words on your icon translate to “The Ascension of Christ.” The scene is one of the 12 Great Feasts of the Church and celebrates the Christian belief in the bodily Ascension of Christ 40 ...

His painting shows the details of the Ascension as recounted in the Acts of the Apostles. As in most Ascension paintings, there are earthly and heavenly dimensions since, as we saw on Good Friday ...

literal and beautiful painting of Christ being escorted by holy and reverent angels on his Ascension into heaven, his loose, snow-white clothing floating off him so that most of his flesh was exposed.