Religion and Science in Early Modern Christian Art

The theology of the Immaculate Conception and the lunar observations of the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), as well as religion and science in early modern Christian art, are concentrated in these pictures.

The symbolic transformation of celestial bodies is deeply reflected in the image, and the astronomy in the image is a vivid presentation of people's cognition of the universe. The moon at the feet of the Virgin was once a symbol of purity and perfection.

When "The Assumption of the Virgin" and "The Woman of the Apocalypse" are combined in the image, the cosmic celestial bodies are endowed with a profound Occultism meaning, and science and religion are incorporated into this Occultism system.

And this Occultism meaning, combined with religious beliefs, also deepens people's stereotypes about the universe, and rejects the images of the universe in astronomical observations.

And when the cosmic images in astronomical observations really seep into the subject matter of religious art with mysticism tendencies, it becomes the moment when mysticism gradually retreats.

Of course, today's Occultism has not completely withdrawn from the historical stage, but has been combined with various modern "seemingly rational" cultural phenomena to give birth to a group of modern Occultism.