The Divine:From Apollo to Vishnu
The concept of Divinity as a power above humanity and beyond full human comprehension, intangible but none the less vividly experienced intuitively, has been a major source of inspiration for the visual arts. It prompted, over the millennia, emanations of the spiritual that were often great and memorable works of art. Aspects of the divine could be represented in diverse ways ranging from abstract symbols to images in human, animal or combined human and animal forms. The ancient Greeks conceived their gods and goddesses in idealized human forms with attributes to indicate their divinity as Aphrodite or Apollo, for instance