syncretic

(adjective)

Describing imagery or other creative expression that blends two or more religions or cultures.

Related Terms

  • rabbinical
  • Haggadah
  • Tanakh
  • stylized
  • rhyton
  • Cyrus the Great

(adjective)

Art that bears the style(s), themes, or other attributes of more than one culture.

Related Terms

  • rabbinical
  • Haggadah
  • Tanakh
  • stylized
  • rhyton
  • Cyrus the Great

Examples of syncretic in the following topics:

  • Art of the Persian Empire

    • While the religion was unique, the art of the empire was largely syncretic, combining the styles of diverse conquered and neighboring peoples.
    • Cyrus is believed to have died in December 530 BCE and was interred in a tomb that further demonstrates the syncretism of Persian art.
  • Frederick Taylor

    • The 1920s saw the beginning of an era of competition and syncretism with opposing or complementary ideas.
  • Mathura Style

    • It is still a matter of debate whether the anthropomorphic representations of Buddha were essentially a result of a local evolution of Buddhist art at Mathura, or a consequence of Greek cultural influence in Gandhara through the Greco-Buddhist syncretism.
  • Changes in American Indian Life

    • What developed during the colonial years and since has been a syncretic Catholicism that absorbed and reflected indigenous beliefs.
  • Academic Painting and Sculpture

    • In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", "L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", and sometimes linked with "historicism" and "syncretism. "
  • Greco-Buddhist Art

    • It is still a matter of debate whether the anthropomorphic representations of Buddha were essentially a result of a local evolution of Buddhist art at Mathura, or a consequence of Greek cultural influence in Gandhāra through the Greco-Buddhist syncretism.
  • Efficiency

    • Its peak of influence came in the 1910s; by the 1920s, it was still influential but had begun an era of competition and syncretism with opposing or complementary ideas.
  • Early Jewish Art

    • Its mosaic floor depicts a syncretic image of King David as Orpheus, identified by his name in Hebrew letters.
  • Egyptian Religion

    • Deities might also be linked through syncretism, creating a composite deity.
  • Early Christian Art

    • In a move of strategic syncretism, Early Christians adapted Roman motifs and gave new meanings to what had been pagan symbols.
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