Spiritual Art
See Also: Paranormal, Psychedelic/Visionary
Mythic Visions: Yarn Paintings of a Huichol Shaman
Yarn paintings representing religious visions and cultural stories of northwestern Mexico's Huichol Indians.
Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship
Art objects representing the divine kings who interacted with supernatural beings, summoned gods, then became gods themselves after death.
The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India
An online Smithsonian exhibition of major Hindu gods in bronze, includes information on the process of creating the sculptures as well as the practice of Hinduism, and the history of the Chola dynasty.
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
Flying Mystics of Tibetan Buddhism
The Mystical Arts of Tibet
Featuring Personal Sacred Objects of the Dalai Lama
Sacred Images: Statues and Other Icons
The veneration of images in the Catholic Church.
Brooklyn Museum
View around 50 objects related to spirituality in the online collections of the Brooklyn Museum.
Images of Divinity
Explore sacred forms of the divine feminine from many cultures.
The Sacred Breath
Works of art from India intended for use in religious practices, as an aid to meditation, or as a means of attaining a state of spiritual elevation.
Rainmakers from the Gods: Hopi Katsinam
An online exhibition of Hopi katsina dolls from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, includes an introduction to the origins and ceremonies of the katsina religion and a thumbnail index of images.
Faces of the Spirit World
An online exhibit of objects carved or modeled into faces and creatures intended as metaphorical expressions of spiritual concepts, from the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Resources
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
A translation of the original text written by Wassily Kandinsky.
Wikipedia: Sacred Art
An introduction to sacred imagery in Christian European, Tibetan Buddhist, and Islamic art, also includes a gallery of religious art.
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