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This thesis spotlights one of Yunnan’s most important Buddhist deities – Acuoye Guanyin. This bodhisattva, also known as the Luck of Yunnan, is unique to the Yunnan region. Acuoye Guanyin played a pivotal role in the political rise of the Nanzhao Kingdom and continued to serve a…

Inspired by Italian, religious images from the 15th and 16th centuries of the Coronation of the Virgin, this thesis will attempt to dissect the numerous depictions of crowns amongst the perspectives of formal analysis, iconography, and theology in order to deduce how this piece …

Many religious textual accounts describe provocative women: The Great Whore from the Apocalypse, Saint Mary Magdalene from the New Testament, and the Daughters of Mara from the Buddhist tradition are all accused of fornication or the seduction of men. However, when artists have …

Considering Neo-Coptic iconography of the Coptic Orthodox Church art as a religious text, this paper looks at how the imagination of viewer relates with the art to create intertextual spaces. Fist the history of Coptic visual material culture is reviewed with a consideration of …

Jamaica is often described as a very religious nation. Christianity is the most widespread religion in Jamaica with almost every denomination and sect represented. There are also small communities of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Jews. In almost any display of Jamaican art in …