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Materiality and Identity Megan Holmes’s “Miraculous Images in Renaissance Florence” examines many of the ramifications of materiality. The materiality, an image’s physical properties, has direct impacts on the expression and popularity of immagini miracolose. These sacred images are subjects of miracles throughout the late 13th to 16th centuries. Two of the most important ramifications of materiality include the accessibility of the religious images and manifestation of the miracles. In this essay,

had removed any religious images from their mosques and that in the Ten Commandments it says “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them” (Exodus 20:5). Leo III saw the Muslims victories as a reward from God for ridding the images from their life and thus started a program of “iconoclasm” (destroying religious images). He removed images of Christ from the Imperial Palace and in 730 required all religious images removed from churches. Following the removal of said images, Leo III had a

which is why Lila Quintero Weaver decided to use images to support her ideas in her graphic novel, Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White. Her graphic novels looks back at her childhood when she moved from Argentina to Mobile, Alabama during the era of Jim Crow’s laws and the Civil Rights Movement. Weaver uses a variety of images to support her idea that racial segregation continues even after segregation had been ruled illegal. In one of Weaver’s images, the 8th grade students are put into a classroom

times. Morimura’s simultaneous use of the historical and religious aspects of The

conform to their extreme ways of life. Their tactics for control are aggressive and extreme; public beheading, fear mongering, and destruction of local historical and religious sites. The destruction of these sites is done in an iconoclastic manor; yet, they also use the destruction to push their

architecture. Baroque art was known to reflect more on the religious tension of the time. Most of the artists reflected more on the desires of the Catholic Church in Rome, where the Roman Catholic was trying to affirm itself in the wake of the Protestants reformation. Most of the Baroque paintings were aimed at exhorting the divine majesty of the church, but the primary purpose of most of these paintings was to strengthen kingdoms’ reign under the religious influence like Spain and France. The Catholic Church

despite the dark meaning hidden in the khaki bassinet sheet, this image is perfect the way it is, centre third, close-medium shot. Picture (last)- “We Will Remember Them” Every year, on the 11th day of the 11th Month at 11 am we pay our respects. We do not mock those who returned with disabilities, we won’t turn away from those suffering now, and we will never, nor will we ever forget those who are gone. Unlike the previous photos, this image isn’t positioned in any particular way or with any kind of

Religion plays a large role in today’s society, it’s used to comfort us in our greatest times of need as well as explain seemingly unknowable questions, such as what is the meaning of life, why are we here, what happens when we die, why do we suffer but now as in the past religion can be a harmful factor in our society. It has been the cause of wars, witch hunts, and proliferated superstition. Today there are such laws that allow a parent to deny their child adequate medical care even if it’s to

Elsie and Her Mother in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit In a story of a young girl coming of age and finding her sexuality in a very religious community, it is key to have a female figure that plays a key role for the character. A mother should play the key role but what happens when this role is confused with a very spiritual role? Where will a young girl turn to when her life goes against the rules society has set for her? Jeanette has lived a sheltered life with no influence on her except

Analyzing an Advertisement for a Book of the Christian Faith In our society today large numbers of people practice some sort of religion. Realizing how many people inhabit the world today it's not hard to believe that there are literally thousands of religions out there. Making a choice as to what religion you fit into can be a daunting task. Even if you already practice a set religion sometimes its hard to know if you are putting your faith in the right hands so to speak. People get into a religion