In the 17th Century hyper realism took over in Spanish Religious art, most of the Spanish artists such as Gregorio Fernández went through great pains to create a flesh like rendering of the dead Jesus. An interesting development from religious devotion in art.
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For the past ten years, Dr. Adelheid M. Gealt, Director, Indiana University Art Museum, and Dr. George Knox, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, have been reconstructing the largest-known New Testament cycle produced by a single artist: 313 large, finished drawings in ink and wash executed by Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804), one of the foremost Venetian artists active during the second half of the eighteenth century.
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Out of the turmoil of Afghanistan, hundreds of precious Buddhist manuscripts have come to the west.
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