Religious Art and Murals

Vibrant frescoes and traditional artworks depicting spiritual themes in various cultures, showcasing historical art techniques.

Japan, Kanazawa, Nagamachi, samurai district, Nomura House, interior,

The Visitation The Keur Moussa abbey church fresco was designed and painted in 1963 by Dom Georges Saget

Tibetan Buddhism, colourful murals, musician playing a stringed instrument, Thubten Shedrup Dargyeling Monastery, Sakya Pa sect, Charang, Tsarang, Upper Mustang, Lo, Nepal, Asia

Doors from an Offering Cabinet (Torgam) with Dancing Skeletons (Chitipati). Tibet, late 18th - early 19th century. Furnishings; Furniture. Wood with mineral pigments; shellac

Garuda carrying two identical figures, possibly Krishna and Balarama, 1890, East India, Bengal, Kolkata, Temple Kalighat, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Javanese dance is the dances and art forms that were created and influenced by Javanese culture. Javanese dance is usually associated with the courtly, refined and sophisticated culture of the Javanese kratons, such as the Bedhaya and Srimpi dance. However, in a wider sense, Javanese dance also includes the dances of Javanese commoners and villagers such as Ronggeng, Tayub, Reog, and Kuda Lumping. Javanese dance is usually associated with Wayang wong, and the palaces of Yogyakarta and Surakarta due to the nature of dance being a pusaka or sacred heirloom from ancestors of the palace rulers. These expressive dances are more than just dances, they are also used for moral education, emotional expression, and spreading of the Javanese culture.

Soul, inner worlds, devas, prayers, flowers, sivalinga, dancing with shiva, artist S. Rajam, hindu belief, himalayan academy art, merging, monism, linga, shiva, saint, yogi Copyright: xHimalayanxAcademy/DinodiaxPhotox

Japan, Kanazawa, Nagamachi, samurai district, Nomura House, interior,

Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre (literally 'shadow'). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java. UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003.

Buddha with Garland by Anisfeld, Boris Israilevich (1878-1973) Private Collection Oil on canvas 71,5x53,5 Russia Russian avant-garde Mythology, Allegory and Literature Painting

Russian icon, Tempera on panel, 17th century, Russia, Palekh, Museum of Palekh Russian Lacquer Art, 100x48

folk design on cotton cloth Copyright: xBxPxMaiti/DinodiaxPhotox

Veiled mohammed and winged angels. Ascension of the Prophet IRAN.

Wat Saket Ratcha Wora Maha Wihan (usually Wat Saket) dates back to the Ayutthaya era, when it was called Wat Sakae. King Rama I (1736 - 1809) or Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke renovated the temple and renamed it Wat Saket. The Golden Mount (Phu Khao Thong) is a steep hill inside the Wat Saket compound. It is not a natural outcrop, but an artificial hill built during the reign of Rama III (1787 - 1851) or King Jessadabodindra. The Jatakas refer to a body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of the Buddha.

Asia,Malaysia, Penang, Georgetown, Han Jiang Ancestral Temple,

Hanuman, a Hindu deity with the figure of a monkey, illustration from 1880, East India, Bengal, Kolkata, Temple Kalighat, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

The Liao Dynasty, also known as the Khitan Empire, was a state that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper. It was founded by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people in the same year as the Tang Dynasty collapsed (907), even though its first ruler, Yelü Abaoji (Yaruud Ambagai Khan), did not declare an era name until 916. Although it was originally known as the Empire of the Khitan, the Emperor Yelü Ruan officially adopted the name 'Liao' (formally Great Liao’) in 947. Another name for China in English, Cathay, is derived from the name Khitan. This is also the origin of the Russian word for China, Китай or Kitay, and that of several other East European languages. The Liao Empire was destroyed by the Jurchen of the Jin Dynasty in 1125. However, remnants of its people led by Yelü Dashi established the Xi (Western) Liao Dynasty 1125-1220, also known as Kara-Khitan Khanate, which extended its influence over Central Asia into Persia and survived until t

The sorceress Medea, wearing ornamental robes and carrying a bowl

Vishnu Vanquishing the Demons Madhu and Kaitabha (recto), Text (verso), Folio from a Devimahatmya (Glory of the Goddess). India, Madhya Pradesh, Chatarpur, circa 1775. Drawings; watercolors. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Rural women painting acrylic on canvas art India Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Old wooden Buddha. Offerings at Wat Phnom temple. Cambodia.

*FE Y RELIGION (1917) TINTA Y ORO. Author: ADOLFO WILDT. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Milan. ITALIA. JESUS. CRISTO CRUCIFICADO.

Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre (literally 'shadow'). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java. UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003.

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Todos Santos, Mexico. Wall mural of a saint or other holy person. (Editorial Use Only)

Japan, Honshu, Kanto, Tokyo, Asakusa, Sensoji Temple, Nakamise Street, Banner depicting Illustration of Samurai

Kutchi handicraft work at bhuj Kutch Gujarat India Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotox

handicraft made by tribes in Kondagaon, Baster, Chhattisgarh, India Copyright: xAnilxDave/DinodiaxPhotox

Domestic violence: A man holds his woman by the hair and wants to hit her with a shoe while she tries to fight back with a broom. Watercolour drawing. Husband and woman. Domestic violence. Anger. Wife abuse, 1890, East India, Bengal, Kolkata, Temple Kalighat, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Colourful hand made patterned carpet, Teotitlan del Valle, near Oaxaca, Oaxaca State, Mexico

Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre (literally 'shadow'). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java. UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003.

Tapestry in Saint_Pierre de Solesmes Abbey depicting the life of St. Benedict, Solesmes, Sarthe, France, Europe

Zhong Kui (Wade-Giles: Chung Kwei, Japanese: Shoki) is a figure of Chinese mythology. Traditionally regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons, his image is often painted on household gates as a guardian spirit, as well as in places of business where high-value goods are involved. Zhong Kui's popularity in folklore can be traced to the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (712 to 756). According to Song Dynasty sources, once the Emperor Xuanzong was gravely ill. He had a dream in which he saw two ghosts. The smaller of the ghosts stole a purse from imperial consort Yang Guifei and a flute belonging to the emperor. The bigger ghost, wearing the hat of an official, captured the smaller ghost, tore out his eye and ate it. The bigger ghost then introduced himself as Zhong Kui. He said that he had sworn to rid the empire of evil. When the emperor awoke, he had recovered from his illness. So he commissioned the court painter Wu Daozi to produ

Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue focusing on the Gods of War. Showing a Hindu goddess, Kali, surrounded by the horrors of war. Date: 1918

A saint man with bird, watercolor on paper Copyright: xSatishxParashar/DinodiaxPhotox

Indian woman in window, peacocks on roof

Birth of Brahma - springing from a lotus issuing from Vishnu from an original Indian painting. Brahma is the creator of the universe and of all beings, as depicted in the Hindu cosmology.According to thePuranas, Brahma is the son of God, and often referred to as Prajapati. The Shatapatha Brahmansays that Brahma was born of the Supreme Being Brahman and the female energy known as Maya. Wishing to create the universe, Brahman first created the water, in which he placed his seed. This seed transformed into a golden egg, from which Brahma appeared. For this reason, Brahma is also known as Hiranyagarbha. According to another legend, Brahma is self-born out of a lotus flower which grew from the navel of Vishnu.

Japanese art - 13th century - Kamakura period. Incarnation of the Buddhist God Seiryo Gongen. Paper painting

Door at Dashchoilon Khiid Monastery

Acrylic color on paper sadhu Varanasi , Uttar Pradesh , India , Artist: Arun K. Mishra Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Picture of hell on the wall of golden stupa Santi Cheidy in Luang Prabang, Laos

Pia Bühler, Christmas story, preaching with the shepherds on the field

World Erotic Art Museum. The shatkona represents the union of the maculine and the feminie or Heaven and Earth or Shiva and Shakti Thangka scroll. Nepal. Miami, Florida, USA.

Wedding Procession: Bride Under a Canopy. India, West Bengal, Murshidabad, circa 1800. Drawings; watercolors. Opaque watercolor on mica

HINDOO FAKIR, INDIA. A Muslim Sufi ascetic in the Middle East and South Asia. The Faqirs were wandering Dervishes teaching Islam and living on alms.

The Dresden Codex (Codex Dresdensis) Pre-Columbian Mayan book of the eleventh or twelfth century, of the Yucatecan Maya in Chichén Itzá.

Panteon indú: Ardjama, hombre santo, rezando en penitencia. Museum: COLECCION PARTICULAR MADRID ESPAÑA.

O Tani San, hoping to win the love of a priest who has set her this task, tries to sail across Lake Biwa in a wash- tub, but sadly she drowns and her ghost causes storms Date: 1908

Traditional religious decoration on a building, Jakar, Bumthang district, Bhutan, Asia

A modern impression of the only surviving 14th Century Woodcut known as 'Bois Protat' depicting a Crucifixion. Dated 14th Century

Cornemuse, Calabrian Bagpipe (Zampogna) and Musette. Bagpipes were banned to all those other than the lower orders, the blind and the wandering mendicant class in the thirteenth century, but France eventually reinstated the use of all of them bar the Cornemuse.

Shadow Puppet (Wayang Kulit) of Buta Terong, from the set KyaiDrajat

See Elected Queen Mae Tai Sing in Person, Statehood Centennial Celebration 1950 , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Basilica of Our Lady of La Vang. Our Lady of La Vang holding a figure of the baby Jesus. Virgin Mary. Vietnam.

Afrikanische Kultur, Africa

A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: with a rod piercing his cheeks, and holding some ceremonial objects. Etching, ca. 1890 ().

Mola textile by Kuna Indian artist, depicting musicians resting in hammocks during the Chicha festival. From the San Blas Archipelago, Panama. Reverse applique design worn on female blouse.

Stylised illustration or, as it is described in the caption, illumination showing the Three Kings following the star to Bethlehem. Date: 1927

Tyra Kleen, sometimes written Thyra, born 29 March 1874 in Stockholm, died in 1951, was a Swedish artist and writer. Her illustrations can be signed T.Kn. Balinese dance is a very ancient dance tradition that is a part of the religious and artistic expression among the Balinese people, native to Bali island, Indonesia. Balinese dance is dynamic, angular and intensely expressive. The Balinese dancers express the story of dance-drama through the whole bodily gestures; fingers, hands and body gestures to head and eyes movements. There is a great richness of dance forms and styles in Bali; and particularly notable are those ritualistic dance dramas which involve Rangda, the witch, and the great beast Barong. Most dances in Bali are connected to Hindu rituals, such as the Sanghyang Dedari sacred dance that invoke hyang spirits that are believed to possess the dancers in trance state during the performance. Other Balinese dances are not linked to religious rituals and created for certain pur

Royal Ballet Theatre, Royal Palace Museum, Luang Prabang, Laos, Southeast Asia

Japan: 'Poroya, Ainu Chieftain of Bekkaii', Kakizaki Hakyo (1764-1826), 1790

Dancing skeletons, murals in a Tibetan temple, Tibetan refugee settlement in Bylakuppe, Mysore District, Karnataka, Southern India, India, Asia

Watercolour of Heidrun Füssenhäuser, Christmas story, Holy Family is asking for lodging

lord buddha painting in mumbai at maharashtra India Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Burma-The Golden Landscape, Asia - Magazine Covers

Christ Before Pilate by Adrian Kupman, b.1910

Altar design by Koloman Moser for Steinhof church in Vienna, created 1904-1905 with pencil, watercolor, deck white, and black chalk, showing figures, ornamentation, and architectural details.

Miniature Painting on Paper, Rag Malhar, naltdwara school Copyright: xBhagwandasxRupani/DinodiaxPhotox

historical clothes - dancing shaman in ritual mask

An elephant carrying a howdah, with two attendants. Gouache by an Indian artist.

Portrait of a Sufi first quarter 17th century The primitive fur, the alms bowl, the flute, and the trance-like meditative state identify this figure as a dervish, or a sufi, a Muslim mystic who has renounced the material aspects of existence. The sense of abstract patterning in the fur and in the man's crossed limbs, combined with the distinctive palette featuring pink and sky blue, suggest an origin in the Deccan, possibly Bijapur. The invocation at the lower left, "Oh Prophet of the House of Hashim from thee comes help," referring to the prophet Muhammad, is in Persian.. Portrait of a Sufi. first quarter 17th century. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. Attributed to India, Deccan, probably Bijapur. Codices

Mongkol Serei Kien Khleang Pagoda. Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. After 45 years of teaching the Dharma, the Buddha passed into Parinirvana. Phnom Penh; Cambodia.

Burm Gossip w/TITLE, Asia - Magazine Covers

Monks on the wall in Wewurukannala Vihara monastery near Dikwella, Sri Lanka

Thailand, Ko Samui (aka Koh Samui). Wat Plai Laem aka Plai Laem Temple, inside prayer house. Colorful wall mural depicting life of Buddha.

Hutsul wedding Sichulski, Kazimierz (1879 1942)

Art Folk Art , Madhubani Painting Ganesh ganpati

Lviv Eaglets Cemetery general view covering colonnade and surroundings in the background Publishing House S. A. Ksi Nica Atlas

Vanuatu, Efate Island, Port Vila. Wall mural of Native dance

Capuchin Crypt, Convento dei Cappuccini with mummies standing and lying, in full regalia or dressed, laid out, Palermo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe

The death of Minnehaha Illustration by Currier & Ives. 1867.Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha

Bloodletting points and moxa points on the human body. Gouache painting, Tibet.

A war-skills contest is arranged for the Kauravas and Pandavas : the rivalries displayed by the princes will subsequently lead to war.

Altar to Iemanja in Salvador, Bahia and who according to Umbanda and Candoble is the queen of the sea. Altar to Iemanja, queen of the sea in Salvador, Bahia

Painting of Sadhu and weaver Copyright: xHimalayanxAcademy/DinodiaxPhotox

Paintings by Regine Martin, mixed technique, 'The Good Samaritan', 'parable', Biblical History

William Herbert, Station of the Cross No 3 Jesus Falls the First Time, c 1936 Station of the Cross No. 3: Jesus Falls the First Time

Ethiopia, Lake Tana. Brightly-coloured murals depict religious scenes in Beta Giorgis Monastery.

'The Return of Rama', 1920. A scene from the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. Rama returns from Lanka after defeating the evil Ravana and freeing his captured wife. From "Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists", by The Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1920

An illustration of a Native American woman, from the National Cancer Institute publication 'Cancer in Women of Color'.

Painting of two Vietnamese women carrying lanterns

A woman in a yoga pose against a page from a book as background

Chromolithograph print titled 'Are our teachings, then, in vain' created by Udo J Keppler (1872- 1956). The illustration depicts Jesus Christ and Confucius looking down at the confrontation of the Boxer revolution. Dated 1900

Shadow play (Chinese: , pí ying xì) or shadow puppetry is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images. It is popular in various cultures. At present, more than 20 countries are known to have shadow show troupes. Shadow puppetry originated during the Han Dynasty when one of the concubines of Emperor Wu of Han died from an illness. The emperor was devastated, and he summoned his court officers to bring his beloved back to life. The officers made a shape of the concubine using donkey leather. Her joints were animated using 11 separate pieces of the leather, and adorned with painted clothes. Using an oil lamp they made her shadow move, bringing her back to life. Shadow theatre became quite popular as early as the Song Dynasty when holidays were marked by the presentation of many shadow plays. During the Ming Dynasty there were 40 to 50 shadow show troupes in the city

Hand-colored image painted on a thin sheet of mica from a manuscript entitled: 'Seventy-Two Specimens of Caste in India' (Madura, southern India: 1837). The full manuscript consists of 72 full-color hand-painted images of men and women of the various castes and religious and ethnic groups found in Madura, Tamil Nadu, at that time. The manuscript shows Indian dress and jewelry adornment in the Madura region as they appeared before the onset of Western influences on South Asian dress and style. Each illustrated portrait is captioned in English and in Tamil, and the title page of the work includes English, Tamil, and Telugu.

Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre (literally 'shadow'). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java. UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003.

Elephant Water Clock. A masterpiece of medieval engineering. The clock was made by al-Jazari in the early 13th century for the King of Diyabakr. It told the time on the half hour using a novel ball run mechanism and was an iconic example of technology during the Golden Age of Islam by incorporating an Indian elephant.

fine arts, religious art, devotional picture, ""Jesus child"", lithograph, printed by J. Hora, Prague, circa 1840, private collection,

Nun; Nesterov, Mikhail (1862-1942); 1909 (1909-00-00-1909-00-00);Russian painting, modernism (style), women's portraits, nuns

Mosaic of Inca rituals

Offering to the Great Spirit. Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936). Oil on canvas. 88.5 x 117cm.

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