Religious subjects depicted in art books

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This original Pocket Guide examines the presence and surprisingly complicated history of angels in Christian art....  Read More >>

Examining the Welsh Nonconformists' expression of religious and spiritual concepts in a visual form, this volume...  Read More >>

Presenting an overview and analysis of the significance of animals in early Christian thought, tradition, text and...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which the production and use of artistic images involving prajna constituted a central,...  Read More >>

Seventeen scholars contributed papers to this volume, which focuses on the Index's twin strengths: iconography and...  Read More >>

The nurturing Earth Goddess, the Great Mother worshipped at the dawn of civilization--historical fact or consoling...  Read More >>

Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of...  Read More >>

Seventeen scholars contributed papers to this volume, which focuses on the Index's twin strengths: iconography and...  Read More >>

Explores the artistic images and religious interpretations of Christ during this period.  Read More >>

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Explores Japanese literary Zen through the landscape arts of poetry, prose, painting, and gardens expressed in the...  Read More >>

Explores Japanese literary Zen through the landscape arts of poetry, prose, painting, and gardens expressed in the...  Read More >>

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The essays in this volume provide many perspectives on the life and thought of the Order of Preachers. They focus...  Read More >>

Das Thema Kunst und Kirche wird oft unter den Gesichtspunkten des Destruktiven oder der Indifferenz abgehandelt....  Read More >>

In 12th-century northern Honshu, three generations of local rulers built a capital city at Hiraizumi. Known as the...  Read More >>

The earliest Buddhist art of China can only be understood when seen in relation to a wider area comprising Central...  Read More >>

This text explains, historically and with illustrations, the origins and momentum of the German art movement of...  Read More >>

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This book explores the art of the Roman Empire from the 'Second Sophist' to the era of late antiquity and the rise...  Read More >>

This text explains, historically and with illustrations, the origins and momentum of the German art movement of...  Read More >>

The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified...  Read More >>