European Journal of Science and Theology, October 2014, Vol.10, No.5, 217-226 _______________________________________________________________________ A POSSIBLE DEMARCATION BETWEEN SACRED ART AND RELIGIOUS ART Adrian Stoleriu  and Irina-Andreea Stoleriu „G. Enescu‟ University of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Design, Sărăriei Str. no.189, 700451, Iași, Romania (Received 2 September 2013) Abstract A certain similitude between the different forms of worship and the artistic ones can be tracked down even since prehistory. Religion and art, throughout all civilizations of history, had various common features (the symbolic expression ways and the visualization expressive capacities of art). In such circumstances, the visual representations of the sacred experienced, from one civilization to another, different evolutions, which gave birth to some issues, which could not find yet a full elucidation. The understanding and representation differences common to every culture led to a diversity of specific terms concerning the intermingling of art and religion. Thus, at present, there are known expressions such as sacred art, religious art, church art, art with religious topic, divine art, laic art, profane art, etc. Yet, most of the times, this multitude of denominations is the one triggering major confusions concerning their meanings and confines. This study will focus on the notions related to sacred art and to religious art, which actually determine the most frequent confusions, since they apparently contain the same significances. Keywords: sacred, art, religious 1. Introduction History makes us the witnesses of a millenary conjunction between religion and art. This phenomenon has materialized prolifically through a varied range of artistic creations inspired by the aspects of the sacred and the religious, the entire history offering extremely eloquent examples of this interesting communion. The specificity of every culture determined a differentiation of the manner of evolving of the religious and artistic fields, and presently we can talk both about a history of the religious art in general, and about a history of religion or of art in particular. This diversification naturally led also to the development of the languages used in the mentioned fields as well as in the cultural and scientific areas that they share, which is motivated by the fact that religion can be related to the cognitive development of the human being, as it creates unsuspected connections and unlimited possibilities of assertion and creation [1].  E-mail: adrianstoleriu@yahoo.com