Religious subjects depicted in art books

The author of this work explores the interwined relationship between the art and spiritual life of the region of...  Read More >>

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Based on a collection of Tibetan ""thangkas"" - scroll paintings portraying a Buddhist philosophy of healing - this...  Read More >>

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With nearly 300 color images, Angels surveys every aspect of artists' long-time fascination with this irresistible...  Read More >>

This contextual study of narrative reliefs depicting Hindu epics and puranas on specific South Indian Hoysaḷa temples...  Read More >>

In this book, Pelikan discusses how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and teachings...  Read More >>

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This volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide...  Read More >>

In vorliegender Publikation wird erstmals die Bedeutung der rhetorischen Theorie fur die Bildkunste des 15. bis...  Read More >>

Individual sculptures from Northern Indian medieval temples are examined within their architectural, religious,...  Read More >>

The drawings in this volume are from the Royal Collection, Windsor, and cover the mosaics and wallpaintings of early...  Read More >>

Encompasses paintings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, stained glass, tapestries and mosaics from the past 1,500...  Read More >>

This is a multidisciplinary analysis to determine the meaning of multiple body parts in early Indian art. Investigation...  Read More >>

This study provides an in-depth examination of the art and meaning of the ivory-carved Cloisters Cross. It offers...  Read More >>

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Presents a study of the art of female monasticism that explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality...  Read More >>

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Between the 12th and 14th centuries images of the suffering Christ proliferated in England, appearing in sermons,...  Read More >>

Early and popular baroque Christ apocrypha in verbal and pictorial evidence  Read More >>

John Lowden explains how and why Early Christian & Byzantine art was made and used.  Read More >>

Icons are among the most elusive subjects in the history of art, but at the same time their study constitutes possibly...  Read More >>

Madeleine L'Engle's first adult novel in four years -- now in paperback! With 23,000 copies sold since May 1996,...  Read More >>

The liturgy and art forms such as music, sacred space and dance are explored in ""Liturgy and the Arts"". Readers...  Read More >>

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