Author: Johann Georg HeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art
Author: Johann Georg HeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography
Author: Helene E. RobertsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787933
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Complete Encyclopedia of Illustration
Author: J. G. HeckPublisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517183403
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Presents more than eleven thousand illustrations--all copyright free and reproducable--in a visual sourcebook that is arranged by subject matter, from architecture to science and technology, with each illustration fully captioned and indexed.
Buddhism
Author: Louis-FrédéricPublisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A short account of the iconographic encyclopedia
Author: Rud GarrigueIcons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Author: Alfredo TradigoPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368457
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An icon (from the Greek word "eikon," "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic, rather than literal and narrative. Indeed, every attitude, pose, and color depicted in an icon has a precise meaning, and their painters--usually monks--followed prescribed models from iconographic manuals. The goal of this book is to catalogue the vast heritage of images according to iconographic type and subject, from the most ancient at the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai to those from Greece, Constantinople, and Russia. Chapters focus on the role of icons in the Orthodox liturgy and on common iconic subjects, including the fathers and saints of the Eastern Church and the life of Jesus and his followers. As with other volumes in the Guide to Imagery series, this book includes a wealth of color illustrations in which details are called out for discussion.
A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art
Author: Melinda K. HartwigPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118325095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art. • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences • Features contributions from top scholars in their respective fields of expertise relating to ancient Egyptian art • Provides overviews of past and present scholarship and suggests new avenues to stimulate debate and allow for critical readings of individual art works • Explores themes and topics such as methodological approaches, transmission of Egyptian art and its connections with other cultures, ancient reception, technology and interpretation, • Provides a comprehensive synthesis on a discipline that has diversified to the extent that it now incorporates subjects ranging from gender theory to ‘X-ray fluorescence’ and ‘image-based interpretations systems’
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography
Author: Lea K. ClinePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190850329
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
"Roman imagery and iconography are typically studied under the more general umbrella of Roman art and in broader, medium-specific studies. This handbook focuses primarily on visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions of iconographic analysis and visual semiotics that have framed the modern study of these images. As such topics-or, more directly, the isolation of these topics from medium-specific or strictly temporal evaluations of Roman art-are uncommon in monograph-length studies, our goal is that this handbook will be an important reference for both the communicative value of images in the Roman world and the tradition of iconographical analysis. The chapters herein represent contributions from a number of leading and emerging authorities on Roman imagery and iconography from across the world, representing a variety of academic traditions and methods of image analysis"--
The Gallery of Memory
Author: Lina BolzoniPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802043306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory -- created by an oral culture -- reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book.
The Symbolism of the Biblical World
Author: Othmar KeelPublisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781575060149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
When Othmar Keel's book first appeared in Germany in 1972, it was a pioneering study, the first to compare systematically the conceptual world of a biblical book with that of ancient Near Eastern iconography. First translated into English in 1978, the book has proven its lasting value for exegesis of the Psalms, the comparative study of the Bible and its world, and the study of ancient Near Eastern art and iconography.