Author: Nat Hubert John WestlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
A Souvenir of the Exhibition of Christian Art
Author: Nat Hubert John WestlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
God in the Modern Wing
Author: Cameron J. AndersonPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830850708
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Should Christians even bother with modern art? This STA volume gathers the reflections of artists, art historians, and theologians who collectively offer a more complicated narrative of the history of modern art and its place in the Christian life. Readers will find insights on the work and faith of artists like Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, and more.
Treasures from the Ark
Author: Vrej NersessianPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892366397
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Armenia was the first country to recognize Christianity as the official state religion in 301 AD, twelve years before Constantine's decree granting tolerance to Christianity within the Roman Empire. Ever since, Armenia has claimed the privilege of being the first Christian nation, and the wealth of Christian art produced in Armenia since then is testimony to the fundamental importance of the Christian faith to the Armenian people. This extensive new survey of Armenian Christian art, published to accompany a major exhibition at The British Library, celebrates the Christian art tradition in Armenia during the last 1700 years. The extraordinary quality and range of Armenian art which is documented includes sculpture, metalwork, textiles, ceramics, wood carvings and illuminated manuscripts and has been drawn together from collections throughout the world—many of the examples have never before been seen outside Armenia. In his authoritative text, Dr. Vrej Nersessian, Curator at The British Library, charts the development of Christianity in Armenia. This fascinating history is essential to an understanding of the art and religious tradition of Armenia, a country in which the sense of the sacred extends well beyond the purely religious, infiltrating the entire fabric of Armenian affairs to create a fascinating culture. This sumptuously illustrated book will be of immense value to anyone with an interest in Byzantine art and culture, the history of Christianity and the history of Armenia and the Middle Orient.
Picturing the Bible
Author: Jeffrey SpierPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300116830
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and shown there November 18, 2007 - March 30, 2008.
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons
Author: Thomas F. MathewsPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065092
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the origin of icons in the seventh century, Thomas F. Mathews finds strong evidence as early as the second century in the texts of Irenaeus and the Acts of John that describe private Christian worship. In closely studying an obscure set of sixty neglected panel paintings from Egypt in Roman times, the author explains how these paintings of the Egyptian gods offer the missing link in the long history of religious painting. Christian panel paintings and icons are for the first time placed in a continuum with the pagan paintings that preceded them, sharing elements of iconography, technology, and religious usages as votive offerings. Exciting discoveries punctuate the narrative: the technology of the triptych, enormously popular in Europe, traced by the authors to the construction of Egyptian portable shrines, such as the Isis and Serapis of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the discovery that the egg tempera painting medium, usually credited to Renaissance artist Cimabue, has been identified in Egyptian panels a millennium earlier; and the reconstruction of a ring of icons on the chancel of Saint Sophia in Istanbul. This book will be a vital addition to the fields of Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, and late-antique art history and, more generally, to the history of painting.
A List of Books, Photographs, &c., in the National Art Library, Illustrating Metal Work
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metal-work
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: A List of Books, Photographs, etc, in the National Art Library, Illustrating Metal Work
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385356938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Kongo: Power and Majesty
Author: Alisa LaGammaPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395758
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A fascinating account of the effects of turbulent history on one of Africa’s most storied kingdoms, Kongo: Power and Majesty presents over 170 works of art from the Kingdom of Kongo (an area that includes present-day Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola). The book covers 400 years of Kongolese culture, from the fifteenth century, when Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants and missionaries brought Christianity to the region, to the nineteenth, when engagement with Europe had turned to colonial incursion and the kingdom dissolved under the pressures of displacement, civil war, and the devastation of the slave trade. The works of art—which range from depictions of European iconography rendered in powerful, indigenous forms to fearsome minkondi, or power figures—serve as an assertion of enduring majesty in the face of upheaval, and richly illustrate the book’s powerful thesis.
Author: Universal catalogue