Understanding Early Christian Art integrates the motifs and subjects of early Christian art with the symbols and themes of early Christian literature and liturgy. The book begins with an analysis of the non-narrative subjects of early Christian art, for example the Good Shepherd…
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Understanding Early Christian Art integrates the motifs and subjects of early Christian art with the symbols and themes of early Christian literature and liturgy. The book begins with an analysis of the non-narrative subjects of early Christian art, for example the Good Shepherd…
This study explores the role of early medieval religious art in its historical context, focusing on England from the reign of Alfred the Great to the aftermath of the Norman Conquest. Tenth and eleventh-century society expressed itself extensively through visual means, and the s…
This study explores the role of early medieval religious art in its historical context, focusing on England from the reign of Alfred the Great to the aftermath of the Norman Conquest. Tenth and eleventh-century society expressed itself extensively through visual means, and the s…
Byzantium: faith and power (1261-1557)
by Ćurčić, Slobodan, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Ainsworth, Maryan Wynn, Redford, Scott, Effenberger, Arne, Lowden, John, Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry, Ballian, Anna, Woodfin, Warren T., (Warren Theriot), Georgopoulou, Maria, Nelson, Robert S., Evans, Helen C., Brooks, Sarah, Carr, Annemarie Weyl, Durand, Jannic, Thomas, Thelma K., Derbes, Anne, Neff, Amy
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Featuring work from the last golden age of the Byzantine Empire, this volume charts the exceptional secular & religious creations of the late 13th through mid 16th centuries. Works that had a profound influence on Eastern Christian, Islamic & Renaissance cultures. A sequel to th…
Featuring work from the last golden age of the Byzantine Empire, this volume charts the exceptional secular & religious creations of the late 13th through mid 16th centuries. Works that had a profound influence on Eastern Christian, Islamic & Renaissance cultures. A sequel to th…
Nearly three hundred illustrations and a text reveal the entire range of the Vatican's artistic holdings, replete with priceless masterworks from all periods.
"Explores the early career of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 'El Greco, ' in particular his engagement with Italian art around the time of his sojourn in Venice and Rome (1567-76). Examines the form, function, and conception of religious images in the second half of the sixteenth cen…
"Explores the early career of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 'El Greco, ' in particular his engagement with Italian art around the time of his sojourn in Venice and Rome (1567-76). Examines the form, function, and conception of religious images in the second half of the sixteenth cen…
"Explores the early career of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 'El Greco, ' in particular his engagement with Italian art around the time of his sojourn in Venice and Rome (1567-76). Examines the form, function, and conception of religious images in the second half of the sixteenth cen…
The photographs in the book, together with the main chapters and the sections on forms and techniques, show how much more there is to the Romanesque apart from round arches and heavy, powerful walls. Some of the pictures will convey the special atmosphere which characterizes a m…
"The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the church's traditional stories about its origins. This book provides a lucid introduction to the relationship between the apocryphal texts and the paintings, mosaics, and sculpture in which they ar…
"The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the church's traditional stories about its origins. This book provides a lucid introduction to the relationship between the apocryphal texts and the paintings, mosaics, and sculpture in which they ar…