God the Father in Western art
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title:
God the Father in Western art
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For about a thousand years, in obedience to interpretations of specific Bible passages, pictorial depictions of God in Western Christianity had been avoided by Christian artists. At first only the Hand of God, often emerging from a cloud, was portrayed. Gradually, portrayals of the head and later the whole figure were depicted, and by the time of the Renaissance artistic representations of God the Father were freely used in the Western Church. God the Father can be seen in some late Byzantine Cr
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Artistic representations of God the Father
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_the_Father_in_Western_art
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2024-02-23T21:12:07Z
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