Thus, secular art can be defined as art that has no religious reference points and is, in fact, oblivious to organized religion. Having an aesthetic appeal in a non-religious context, it neither denies or affirms the existence of God, but focuses on human agency.

The following pieces in this exhibit display contrasting ideas from this period in Art History. On the one hand, there are Christian devotional images and on the other hand there are more simple...

Admittedly, classifying medieval art in tidy categories of the “religious” or “secular” is a bit anachronistic, especially in the arts of the Byzantine court, where religious and political elements were often seamlessly blended.

The thirty-six works of art in this exhibition (our first dedicated purely to 'secular' art) encompass ironwork, books, textiles, furniture, ceramics, mortars, stained glass roundels, jewellery, domestic stone carvings and cutlery.

How does art from this period reflect the movement and transformation of global objects across the globe? How was political authority conveyed in portraiture and architecture? How did artists transmit their own artistic identity during this period?

2025年1月1日 · Sandro Botticelli - Renaissance, Art, Florence: Botticelli is the earliest European artist whose paintings of secular historical subjects survive in some number and are equal or superior in importance to his religious paintings.

‘The question mark that hangs from the title of this volume, How Secular Is Art? summons the unsettled field of contestation surrounding secularism in South Asia that continues to torment the region.

It questions the temporal, spatial, and cultural binaries between the ‘sacred’ and the ‘secular’ that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice.

But the focus of this exhibition, The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, is on pots and games, clocks and saddles, almanacs and herbals, tools and gifts—a great variety of things made for use during the course of daily life in one of the great periods of transition in western Europe, the years between 1300 and 1550.

2020年8月18日 · The Spirit of Secular Art presents a coherent theory defining the sacred basis of Western aesthetics. It evocatively describes the afterlife of the holy from Ancient Greece to the present, and outlines how the mysterious institution of art can be explained in material terms.