Religious

In this volume, Emily A. Fenichel offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo's sculpture and graphic works in his late period. Taking the criticism of the Last Judgment as its point of departure, she argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608871704Author Romio ShresthaFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 948gDimensions(mm) 356mm *...

Preah Bot are portable paintings on canvas which represent either single episodes from the life of the Buddha or from the Jataka tales, in particular the last ten stories, the birth tales of the Buddha. In the past they were presented by lay people to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788833670850Author Bill SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Officina LibrariaPublisher Officina LibrariaWeight(grams) 1746gDimensions(mm) 287mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399173769Author Archie RandFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1593gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

"What Brendan Powell Smith has done with LEGOs goes beyond remarkable; it borders on genius."-The Chicago TribuneBrendan Powell Smith has spent years using LEGO to illustrated scenes from The Bible. Here he shares over 1,000 LEGO "brick" photographs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556357213Author David ThistlethwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers the first full survey of Jewish illuminated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732343818Author Beverly LanzettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Blue Sapphire BooksPublisher Blue Sapphire BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

In this book R. W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of propaganda - such as illustrated broadsheets, picture books, title pages, and book illustrations - which were aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the...

When the magnificent volume first appeared in 1966, it was celebrated for its extraordinary beauty. Now, more than thirty years since its first publication, it is made available once again. Illustrating one of the great art treasures of the world, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802818164Author Nicholas WolterstorffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Theyyam is an extraordinary 2,000-year-old ritual of worship found only in the northern region of India's south-western state of Kerala. It is in this myth-wrapped land that empowered men become temporarily transformed into deities. Whilst the process is...

Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aesthetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639380503Author Publications International LtdPage Count 104Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd...

An in-depth examination of William Blake's glorious and acclaimed series of twelve monoprints Among William Blake's (1757-1827) most widely recognized and highly regarded works as an artist are twelve color printed drawings, or monoprints, conceived and...

Do your heart and soul need encouragement, refreshment, and inspiration? Anne Neilson's Angels is an exquisite, artful 40-day devotional inviting you to experience joy and comfort through an original angel painting, a thoughtful reflection, Bible verse,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830850655Author W. David O. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645585657Author New SeasonsPage Count 64Imprint New SeasonsPublisher New SeasonsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 211mm * 8mm

Even the briefest glance at an art museum's holdings or an introductory history textbook demonstrates the profound influence of Christian images and art. From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626982109Author Henri J.M. NouwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

A revelatory exploration of wood's many material, ecological, and symbolic meanings in the religious art of medieval Germany "A rewarding study that is full of new insights."-Jeremy Warren, Art Newspaper In late medieval Germany, wood was a material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608875436Author James H BaeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943888283Author Robert RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Featherproof Books LLCPublisher Featherproof Books LLC

After the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read classic text in the Jewish tradition. More than four thousand editions have been published since the late fifteenth century, but few are as exquisite as the Washington Haggadah, which resides...

In The Nazarenes, Cordula Grewe presents a timely revisionist account of the Nazarenes, a group of early nineteenth-century German artists who have been occasionally reviled, but more often ignored, in the history of modern art. Viewing critically the...

Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images. Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The...

Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. Louis Psalter through a rich range of perspectives and methodologies and positions it within the contexts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802827968Author Robin M. JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting...

The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780768413229Author Saara TainaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Destiny Image IncorporatedPublisher Destiny Image IncorporatedWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639382118Author Publications International LtdPage Count 104Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd...

The cultural manifestation of Hinduism is uniquely complex. In particular, the visual arts associated with the Hindu religion are recognised as being the most complex and rich of any living religion. No serious effort to understand ancient or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725272323Author Addison Hodges HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds...

While the Renaissance is generally perceived to be a secular movement, the majority of large artworks executed in 15th century Italy were from ecclesiastical commissions. Because of the nature of primarily basilica-plan churches, a parishioner's view...

Pontius Pilate is one of the Bible's best-known villains--but up until the tenth century, artistic imagery appears to have consistently portrayed him as a benevolent Christian and holy symbol of baptism. For the first time, Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism,...

Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709)-the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa-be...

Statues, paintings, and masks-like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums-give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how...