Religious Images of the Christian East

Santa Barbara Museum of ArtScore 90.0

Religious Images of the Christian East November 27, 2013 - March 16, 2014 Portraits of Jesus Christ, His mother and His saints invoke the presence of God, to whom every Christian prayer is addressed. Before the Reformation, such images were habitually used by believers all over Europe, both in church and in private. The custom of painting them on wood originated in present-day Egypt, Syria and Turkey, later…