Alessio Albi's close-up portraits draw attention to finer bodily details – capturing them with mesmerising intensity and heightened colours.
Jeremy Springfield Petroglyph2
The permissibility of depictions of Muhammad in Islam has been a contentious issue. Oral and written descriptions of Muhammad are readily accepted by all tradit...
In honor of Labor Day I ransacked my images for billheads and letterheads that depicted working people. 1917 billhead John Burns fruit house...
I found some pictures about ancient Chinese soldiers on the Osprey book. A few of these pictures seem to be accurate, but most of these pictures have some...
Confronting and Resisting Stereotypes
Still Commission 2018 Disintegrated Depictions Dibond Mounted Inkjet Prints Adidas Deerupt Pop-Up store in Times Square NYC, March 2018
Here is another series of beautiful old illustrations and paintings of Armenians and Armenian life, that I have collected over time. There are many similar posts on this blog and I’ll continue to share them with you as I keep finding more. These images are quite large as I try to collect and share the […]
Ezekiel's Vision engravings in Figures qui Represent les Evenements le
Many religions have some variation of Hell, that final destination for unrepentant sinners—the likes of child molesters, serial killers, Hitler, Osama bin Laden—who will suffer unthinkable horrors for eternity. Those who believe in its existence have images of what that might be like. For Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, it’s “the worst place in the world,…
Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History
Dancing the quadrille. Detail from a series of illustrations from about 1821 attributed to William Hawkes Smith of Birmingham satirising...
I once saw St. Lucy. Not while she was alive, of course—she died in the Sicilian city of Syracuse in 304. Her body, however, lies enshrined in the Church of Sts. Jeremiah and Lucy in Venice, Italy, and I made sure to visit her to give thanks for my eyesight. After all, she is the…
Medieval Muslim artists often created paintings and illuminated manuscripts depicting Mohammed in full. Several examples are presented here. Other artists of the era drew Mohammed, but left his face blank so as to technically comply with a sporadically enforced Islamic ban on depicting the Prophet; these faceless images are shown in the second section of…
Every July 12, St. Veronica is honored with her feast day, a day to remember the one simple act of kindness and empathy that catapulted her into Christian fame. On the road to Calvary, after Jesus falls with the cross weighing Him down, Veronica steps forward and compassionately wipes the sweat and blood from his…
A soldier in the Roman Empire in the 200s, Sebastian wisely dissembled his faith at a time when Emperor Diocletian was just starting his reign of terrible persecution of Christians. Nevertheless, his faith was detected in 286, and Diocletian had him bound to a post in a field, where archers were ordered to use him…
With vast cultural diversities existing in India, it is quite a challenge to represent same on canvas. Prashant Sable has overcome this in his unique style.
