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| | French Culture | art: Telling Tales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | All major art movements, schools and styles - From Romanticism to Realism, from the Academics to the Symbolists - produced works that depicted Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious figures, events and rituals. |
 | | The Dahesh Museum of Art, which specializes in art of this period, presents an important survey devoted entirely to images of religion and religiosity as envisioned by artists trained in the academies of Europe. |
 | | The everyday rites and rituals of Judaism and Islam, exotic for non-practitioners, were often more neutrally rendered, even idealized, by academic artists, who saw in them a more sincere and personal relationship to spirituality, so different from the predominantly Christian, urban, middle-class-- and all-too-familar-- culture of the West. |
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