Perception of works of art is made somewhat difficult today both by the growing consumerist and anti-artistic tendencies in the very fabric of today’s life as well as the division of the once holistic notion of art into various forms of art or “arts” plural. As a possible way out the author proposes a study course, which is based on the “synthesis of arts” as revealed in the architecture and design of Christian churches, which present the most natural example of this synthesis while at the same time forming an integral part of the world’s artistic culture.