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Karanlıke Kilise (Dark Church), Church 23 Göreme
Artist: Ahmet Ertuğ (1949 – ) Primary
Dimensions:
63 x 81 in. (160.02 x 205.74 cm)
Object Type:
Photograph
Creation Place:
Middle East, Turkey
Medium and Support:
Photograph
Credit Line:
Gift of Ahmet Ertug, 2021.
Accession Number:
2021.03.07
On View:
Quick Center Lobby
The tympanum (the semicircular surface above the entry) is decorated with an image of the Transfiguration of Christ. Above, on the vaulted ceiling, is the Entry of Christ into Jerusalem.
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photographs
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Abrahamic religions
The group of religions comprising Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, that trace their origin to the prophet Abraham.
The group of religions comprising Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, that trace their origin to the prophet Abraham.
Byzantine
Culture, style, and period of the Christian states of the eastern Mediterranean during the rule of the Byzantine Empire (330 - 1453 CE). Byzantine art and culture was carried throughout much of the Christian world, and lasted into the 16th century in eastern Europe. The style is characterized by imperial and religious subject matter, and a movement away from the original Greek naturalistic forms to favor ritualistic stylization, intended to suggest the spiritual. For the culture and style of the Italian and western Mediterranean Christian world roughly from the third to the mid-ninth century CE, use "Early Christian."
Culture, style, and period of the Christian states of the eastern Mediterranean during the rule of the Byzantine Empire (330 - 1453 CE). Byzantine art and culture was carried throughout much of the Christian world, and lasted into the 16th century in eastern Europe. The style is characterized by imperial and religious subject matter, and a movement away from the original Greek naturalistic forms to favor ritualistic stylization, intended to suggest the spiritual. For the culture and style of the Italian and western Mediterranean Christian world roughly from the third to the mid-ninth century CE, use "Early Christian."
religions
Belief systems that encompass various personal and institutional relationships between human beings and what they regard as holy, sacred, or divine, usually but not always a deity, or a spiritual or occult force. Participation in a religion is typically manifested in obedience, reverence, and worship, often including group activities and alliance with a leader. Elements of a religion or similar belief system include doctrine, ritual, defined parameters of morality, and a code of living, often seen as a means of achieving spiritual or material improvement.
Belief systems that encompass various personal and institutional relationships between human beings and what they regard as holy, sacred, or divine, usually but not always a deity, or a spiritual or occult force. Participation in a religion is typically manifested in obedience, reverence, and worship, often including group activities and alliance with a leader. Elements of a religion or similar belief system include doctrine, ritual, defined parameters of morality, and a code of living, often seen as a means of achieving spiritual or material improvement.
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