Posted on June 29, 2010.
What arts have been influenced by the Old Testament? religion in my school book begins by saying that the Old Testament had an impact on many arts. Can you please explain?
Oh, and we were asked to make a slideshow for the old test. A few incidents of it. It's just that I know of no incidents! Suggestions?
paintings, particularly the artists of the Italian Renaissance. There is the famous fresco The Creation of Michelangelo. He also painted biblical stories on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Google images of your slide show or PowerPoint.
The Old and New Testament had a great influence on all forms of art especially during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
We can say without exaggeration that the art in the MA was exclusively religious. Painters, see Flemish - H. Bosch - Van Eyck - Van Dyck, Brueghel, Dutch Vermeer - Rubens Italian Giotto - Caravaggio, Rafael - Da Vinci - Michelangelo (also in sculpture and architecture), Fra Angelico and many others.
You can view the slides of the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo, where you have most of the Old Testament painted on the ceiling and partly on the walls.
I hope this will help.
You may have to read a little of the Old Testament to find these incidents have been so often described. There are many stories in the first book, Genesis about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and so on.
In the second book, Exodus, you have Moses, the prince of Egypt who discovers he is the son of slaves. He is banished from Egypt, became a shepherd, sees a bush burning but not consumed, and met the great creator god El, who said: "I am who I am" which is transformed in his name, Yahweh or Jehovah.
There are many exciting stories during the first five books called the Pentateuch in English, or the Torah in Hebrew. Take a look.
Also look late Mannerist art A large number of their subjects referred to in the Bible. also try in the context of neo-classicism. for them, not so much, they focused on a new style of those mentioned in ancient Rome and Greece, but some of them made reference to Old Testament stories.
Old Testament, the devil book.