On the Educational, Aesthetic and Ethic Benefits of Sacred Art

Abstract

Although Sacred Art includes all manifestation with a religious substrate which address human senses, it stays in the memory of communities mostly by forms of visual expression. The latter have a longer impact on people and educate them both aesthetically and ethically. At the core of each image lies a conceptual substratum based on and translatable into words, which outflows by means of plastic and technological aspects. Generally, these aspects purport to some rules which become ordering canons when ethical needs command aesthetic varieties such as the primary requirement of continuity and the recognition in time of some models of behaviour. Representative artifacts require physical maintenance over longer periods of time by means of conservation and restoration; the latter explains the concern over heritage to be saved, to the benefit of the succeeding generations. By its very nature, Sacred Art expresses transdisciplinarity and assumes a representative unifying statute.