Religious Art

A vast majority of music created during the Renaissance and Middle ages was used for sacred purposes: music intended to inspire thoughtful worship in the Catholic church. Despite the large push of Catholicism during this time, evidence shows a large amount of secular music was also used at this time for entertainment and personal expression. Although sacred music had shown dominance during these periods, secular music had many similarities, as well as differences.

The art that has been discussed so far has all had to do with God, but there is also secular art, and that does not mean that it is wrong. There is secular art in the Bible, in 1 Kings 10 Solomon’s throne is described. His throne is adorned with ivory and the finest gold, and with a total of 14 lions, as statues or real lions. This must have been a magnificent piece of secular art.

Every religion in this world has their own culture and thereby their own creative forms, like art, dance, architecture, music and craft. Like the tradition varies from each religion to religion so as their Art. I chose to compare Art forms of Islamic Art and Hinduism Art, as Art have always exited me and inspired me in many ideas, and secondly arts have its own history and reasoning.

There exist three basic components of traditional Islamic art: calligraphy, geometric patterns, and floral and vegetal motifs. These three stylistic tools are beautifully rendered and masterfully integrated into complex works of art, but there is no question that artistic expression is severely limited under these categorizations. However, this limitation stems from Islamic theology and concept of art. The main reason for the limitation imposed on visual art is the Islamic theological prohibition of figural imagery. Social laws presented in the Hadith prevented the representation of figures because any imitation was deemed idolatrous. Also, art is considered to be decorative and imitative. Script and patterns are used to decorate

Gregorian Chant has been the official music for the Roman Catholic for over 1,000 years. Gregorian Chant consists of characteristics of being calm and spiritual. Gregorian Chant melodies signify the church services, setting a mood

From the beginning of times, music has played an important role in everyone’s life. At first, it started with drum-based and percussion instruments made out of what was available as rocks and sticks. Our ancestors proved that human beings have an innate need of music. Nowadays, no one teaches a baby to follow the beat of a song, he just naturally lets his body get involved with the rhythm. Since the prehistoric era to Christian times, several forms of music have developed leaving a trail to new genres of music. For Christianity, hymns and plainchants were the first forms of music considered as a worship to God. As time passed by, Christian music has evolved giving way to new and fresh sounds.

Music has always played a vigorous role in religious celebrations throughout history. Religions across the world have shaped our nations through music. There are various types of music in diverse religions across the world. Music is used to worship in many religions and it is spread across communities of the same religion. Music helps spread the gospel that is being preached.

Music is an important part of this world and has been around since the beginning of time from simple rhythms to more complex tools. Music not only brings pleasure but it has also brought an understanding to people about the time periods through the lyrics and music videos created. But what about the years before music videos and before lyrics fully occupied songs. During the 1920s lyrics were at the starting line and would originally only be located in a small area of the song or would just repeat the same thing over and over again without any true interpretable meaning. To top off that there were no music videos created during this time, which overall limited the ways music of the 1920s could be interpreted unlike music from the 2000s that

My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok, tells a story about a Hasid, young man driven by a great passion: drawing. The character Asher Lev is presented within a Hasidic, Jewish community. These Hasidic communities are very conservative in many aspects; they care deeply and influence their members in a lot of decisions they make in life. The Rebbes of the Jews is the man whose members of the community go to quite often for advice, as Asher’s uncle Yitzchok said to Aryeh, “People go to the Rebbe because they have a cold” (30). The relevance of the Rebbe is shown in very early stages of the book when, for example, Asher’s father explains to him how

During the Renaissance period of history, religious icons were a popular theme. Often churches and other religious organizations would pay artists to recreate famous scenes from the Bible which could then be hung in private homes are in churches and cathedrals. Many paintings were done on the very walls of the church, painted into the plaster in a style known as fresco. Religious paintings were also frequently purchased for the home by wealthy patrons. Each artistic work was used to tell a different story and presented in a way which would reflect the ideas and opinions of the church and the surrounding community. Two paintings from the period, the Mèrode Altarpiece by Campin and the Holy Trinity by Masaccio, are both religious works which have a similar purpose, and can be compared by their specific time period and content, the artist who created the pieces and their intentions, and the techniques which were used in creating it.

Since the dawn of society, religion and art have been intertwined with the purpose of conveying a message. Religious artwork allows individuals to come together under one cause and share a meaningful relationship with one another. For

Throughout the ages, music has been very important to religion. Ever since the middle ages, the religious music told a story of a biblical event. The current day Christian music tells a story about life and how Jesus Christ can fix the problem because he is all powerful. Oratorio is one example of older religion music. The current type of religious music is called Contemporary Christian music. There are a lot of different genres between these two. Oratorio and Contemporary music differ greatly; however, they both speak about the perfect Jesus Christ.

The Bible, the book that Christianity is based on, “itself is responsible for much of the language, literature, and fine arts we enjoy today as its artists and composers were heavily influenced by its writings” (“Influence of Christianity on Western Civilization 1). In today’s society there are Christian roots in famous artwork. For example, the Pieta sculpture created by Michaelangelo which is housed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome has roots in Christian teachings("Christian Art (c.150-2000) History and Characteristics"

In Buddhism, the very nature of a sculptural image is complex. Not only have the conception and function of images varied over the course of Buddhist history, but also according to the particular ritual, devotional, and decorative context in which they are situated. Although there has been considerable scholarly debate about the matter, it seems clear that Buddhists began to depict the Buddha very early on, perhaps even before he died, although no such images survive. The Buddha himself is recorded in some commentaries on the Pali sutta s to have said that images of him would be permissible only if they were not worshiped; rather, such images should provide an opportunity for reflection and meditation. However, in other commentarial texts images

We live in a fast-growing world and music plays a big role in today’s world and even in the past. Music has become a daily routine, people listen to music immediately they wake up while cooking… music helps a lot of people get over their problems, it’s like a solution, it makes people refreshed. Music has played a significant role in the history of Christianity, music in most churches occupy most of the percentage of the entire service, therefore, music plays a major role in the churches today. Everything done in churches is in a way related to music, the clapping, singing, instruments used in churches such as drums, guitar, keyboard… these all represent music.