Borobudur Temple, Allegory Of Law And Grace
Art is one of the ways religious paradigms express their conceptions. Also, art dwells in human nature. Thus, people will pursue and create what is beautiful. For instance, in “Borobudur Temple”, “Dry Garden, Ryoan-ji”, and “Allegory of Law and Grace” artists of Buddhism and Christianity both created amazing artworks which express and communicate the theology of their belief in a wise way.
In Indonesia, a group of stupas stand on a hill and consist the “Borobudur Temple”. In the Sailendra Dynasty 750–842 A.D., a group of Buddhists and artists constructed this amazing artwork. Thousands of stupas, which made of volcanic-stone masonry, were placed in circles with same center. Every stupa holds a statue of Buddha to represent Buddha’s essence. …show more content…
Before creating this artwork, Lucas Cranach the Elder had communicated with Martin Luther to well understand Luther’s conceptions. In this artwork, Lucas Cranach the Elder depicted the scenes of human living under law and love on separate side of the tree of life, which is in the middle. On the left, a terrified man is chasing by a skeleton with spire into the eternal fire, which represents the hell. The scene of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit is in the background to point of the reason why human living under law. This scene shows that under law, people have neither freedom nor happiness. On the right, the man is happier while talking with John the Baptist. Most important, Jesus shows three times in the same scene: in the tomb, on the cross, and while going up to heaven. The blood of Christ is pouring on the man to indicate that human’s sin is cleaned by the blood of Christ. Thus, human can receive the true peace. In the background, tabernacle is implying that Christ has already become the true tabernacle and the mediator between human and God. The material of printing also contributes to the spreading of this artwork. This artwork was kind of serving as a message, pamphlet, or disseminated pictures for Luther’s theology in Reformation
In Indonesia, a group of stupas stand on a hill and consist the “Borobudur Temple”. In the Sailendra Dynasty 750–842 A.D., a group of Buddhists and artists constructed this amazing artwork. Thousands of stupas, which made of volcanic-stone masonry, were placed in circles with same center. Every stupa holds a statue of Buddha to represent Buddha’s essence. …show more content…
Before creating this artwork, Lucas Cranach the Elder had communicated with Martin Luther to well understand Luther’s conceptions. In this artwork, Lucas Cranach the Elder depicted the scenes of human living under law and love on separate side of the tree of life, which is in the middle. On the left, a terrified man is chasing by a skeleton with spire into the eternal fire, which represents the hell. The scene of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit is in the background to point of the reason why human living under law. This scene shows that under law, people have neither freedom nor happiness. On the right, the man is happier while talking with John the Baptist. Most important, Jesus shows three times in the same scene: in the tomb, on the cross, and while going up to heaven. The blood of Christ is pouring on the man to indicate that human’s sin is cleaned by the blood of Christ. Thus, human can receive the true peace. In the background, tabernacle is implying that Christ has already become the true tabernacle and the mediator between human and God. The material of printing also contributes to the spreading of this artwork. This artwork was kind of serving as a message, pamphlet, or disseminated pictures for Luther’s theology in Reformation