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Sacred and Profane Love (1602–1603), showing dramatic compositional chiaroscuro. In art, chiaroscuro (English: / k i ˌ ɑːr ə ˈ s k (j) ʊər oʊ / kee-AR-ə-SKOOR-oh, - SKURE-, Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro]; lit. ' light-dark ') is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.
Main articles: Grace in Christianity, Irresistible grace, Prevenient grace, and Sola gratia. Grace in Christianity is the free and unmerited favour of God as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowing of blessings. [11]
In the New Testament, agape refers to the covenant love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God; the term necessarily extends to the love of one's fellow human beings. Some contemporary writers have sought to extend the use of agape into non-religious contexts.
I think of love as this tender-hearted gentleness of feeling from the heart in the world. You call yourself 'the world's worst Christian.' What do you mean by that?
Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection —"the unselfish, loyal, and benevolent concern for the good of another"—and its vice representing a human moral flaw akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism.
Crystallization is a concept, developed in 1822 by the French writer Stendhal, which describes the process, or mental metamorphosis, in which the characteristics of a new love are transformed into perceptual diamonds of shimmering beauty.
Eros (/ ˈ ɪər ɒ s /, US: / ˈ ɛr ɒ s, i r ɒ s,-oʊ s /; from Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) 'love, desire') is a concept in ancient Greek philosophy referring to sensual or passionate love, from which the term erotic is derived.
Sternberg's triangular theory of love provides a strong foundation for his later theory of love, entitled Love as a Story. In this theory, he explains that the large numbers of unique and different love stories convey different ways of how love is understood.
Aten, also Aton, Atonu, or Itn ( Ancient Egyptian: jtn, reconstructed [ˈjaːtin]) was the focus of Atenism, the religious system formally established in ancient Egypt by the late Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten. Exact dating for the Eighteenth Dynasty is contested, though a general date range places the dynasty in the years 1550 to 1292 ...
Winged deities associated with love and sexual intercourse that are part of Aphrodite's retinue. Exedra room featuring a semicircular architectural recess, often crowned by a semi-dome fully open on one side and usually located adjacent to the peristyle.