Monasteries were a place that monks went to get away from wars, and sinfulness. A community of devoted prayer and service to fellow Christians is called monasticism.
Pilgrimage
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. [more]
Art and Architecture
Religious faith in the medieval times was shown by going on voyages to religious places such as Rome, Jerusalem, the place in which Christ was born, and Canterbury England.
Holidays
In the middle ages, art was used for religious purposes. Since most people could not know how to read, art helped to show people Christ's life.
Education
The two most famous holidays in medieval Europe, were Christmas and Easter. Both of these holidays are related to Jesus. Easter, about how Jesus rise from the dead, and Christmas was about Jesus's birth. Some ways that they celebrated the holidays was feasting at the house of a lord.
Sacraments
Most schools took place in monasteries, covenants and cathedrals (pictured). In the middle age, the most likely to be most educated were the clergy.
The Fighting Temeraire
The seven sacraments are what marked the most important parts of a persons life, such as being baptized. Baptism is a way of being entered into the church. The seven sacraments are Baptisms, Confirmation, Eucharist, Matrimony(marriage), Holy Orders, Penance, and Extereme Unction.
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
