Images with deep "religious" meaning

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ludwigm wrote:Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights (high resolution)

...and something in similar style...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Triumph of Death (high resolution)

Here would be seen the 640px paintings if I had the feature!

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Ludwigm, you *must* see the art film "The Mill And The Cross".
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This:

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Pulitzer Prize winning photo by Ruth Fremson. Yoga teacher Christine Rohm folds her hands behind her back in a prayer position as she meditates in front of a makeshift memorial for victims of the World Trade Center attack in Union Square in Manhattan on September 18, 2001 on the week anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.


And this:

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"The Repentant Mary Magdalene" by Antonio Canova
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madeleine wrote:Ludwigm, you *must* see the art film "The Mill And The Cross".
I've begun to download it...
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ludwigm wrote:
madeleine wrote:Ludwigm, you *must* see the art film "The Mill And The Cross".
I've begun to download it...


:) Watch it yet? What do you think? Innovative filmmaking?

I'm kind of partial to it. Fortunate enough to have seen it when it was introduced by Lech Majewski, and then later Q&A with him and Rutger Hauer. I think I was in over my head.
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madeleine wrote:
:) Watch it yet? What do you think? Innovative filmmaking?

I'm kind of partial to it. Fortunate enough to have seen it when it was introduced by Lech Majewski, and then later Q&A with him and Rutger Hauer. I think I was in over my head.

I've watched 3-4*1-2 minute until now, I need some more free time to watch the whole.

Seems amazing.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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