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- By God the Father is understood the creator of the world and sole reigning deity of the Old Testament as well as the first Person of the Holy trinity. He has been represented in successive periods of Christian art chiefly as the divine hand, a beardless young man, the Ancient of Days, and the celestial pope or emperor.
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The most usual depiction of the Trinity in Renaissance art depicts God the Father as an old man, usually with a long beard and patriarchal in appearance, sometimes with a triangular halo (as a reference to the Trinity), or with a papal tiara, specially in Northern Renaissance painting.
By the twelfth century depictions of a figure of God the Father, essentially based on the Ancient of Days in the Book of Daniel had started to appear in French manuscripts and in stained glass church windows in England. In the 14th century the illustrated Naples Bible had a depiction of God the Father in the Burning bush.
Dec 29, 2021 · An icon painting guide titled Erminia contained the following words in favor of depicting God the Father, “We depict the Unoriginate Father in the form of an Elder, as Daniel saw him”. It also argued that such images were already established in the more ancient practice of the Church.
Aug 1, 2018 · Most Orthodox Christians are aware of the Church’s prohibition of any depiction of God the Father. The 1667 Synod of Moscow canonically forbade the depiction of God the Father in icons, though this canonical decision has not always been obeyed.
Jul 19, 2023 · God the Father. In the gospels, Jesus presents himself as the son of the God of the Old Testament, whom he refers to as "the Father." The Father is unseen and unseeable, but having taken flesh the Son makes himself visible as "the image of the invisible God."
Jul 9, 2016 · Depiction of the divine Jesus in human form was universally accepted because of the incarnation. But what of the Father? Is he anthropomorphic? Should he be depicted in art? And if so, how?
The most usual depiction of the Trinity in Renaissance art depicts God the Father as an old man, usually with a long beard and patriarchal in appearance, sometimes with a triangular halo (as a reference to the Trinity), or with a papal tiara, specially in Northern Renaissance painting.
