Religious Art - Sculptures-Wood & Stone

Esculturas Madeira & Pedra

One must distinguish between religious art and sacred art. The difference is founded not so much on the characters intrinsic to both, and in the inspiration of each one, but at the destination of the artwork. There are works of deep religious inspiration, and that, notwithstanding this, are not meant for worship, and therefore, should not be considered itself as being "sacred art".
In general, one can say that it is religious art that reflects the religious life of the artist. The virtue of religion, tends to produce in man an attitude substantially built, of love, of submission, of faith and hope, and above all, the worship of God. The religious art should have this same purpose and for this to occur it is necessary that the art - while retaining the intrinsic characteristic - which subordinates his the end of religion.
The "sacred art" is that religious art that has a destination of the liturgy, that is, one that is necessary to promote the liturgical life in the believer and that this should not only lead to an attitude of religious generic, but it has to be able to trigger the attitude of religious which is required by the Liturgy, or for divine worship.