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The Sacred Images Project - Ars Sacra Association Profile picture
The Sacred Images Project - Ars Sacra Association
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Join us on The Sacred Images Project, for in-depth discussions on the history of Christian sacred art, from the perspective of a believer, and painter.
Jul 24 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Look carefully and you'll realise there's something funny about these paintings. All the faces are exactly the same. They're all the same person.

This is bcs a particular aspect of Gothic painting is "canonical" faces. They're not drawn from a live model.

👉🧵👇 Image In the Gothic sacred art tradition, figures were based on proportional templates passed down through workshops or manuals. A saint’s face wasn’t a portrait of a specific person; it was a visual formula designed to show their holiness, not what they looked like. Image
Jun 27 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
The images are often obscure, metaphorical or connected to the commentary, but if you're familiar with the Book of Revelation, you can get some of it.

"The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches." Image it says: "HIC SOL OBSCURABITUR ET LUNA IN SANGUINE VERSA EST"

Rev. 6: 12 "the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood" Image