Religious

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978701618Author Lee M JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941106358Author Sadao WatanabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Square Halo BooksPublisher Square Halo BooksWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 276mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888304174Author Jakob BohmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871692696Author Edward J. OlszewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society...

This book explores the extent to which artists of sixteenth-century Europe were influenced by ideas of religious reform. Analysing the content of major works by eight prominent artists, noted reformation scholar John Dillenberger argues that these...

Religious subject matter is not central in 20th century art. One might therefore suspect that, for the avantgarde, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) would have eclipsed religion altogether. However, as Juan Jose Lahuerta argues in this book, the war...

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...

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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 *...

Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints' lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively illustrated book...

"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...

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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...

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...

C. S. Lewis is one of the most influential and beloved Christian writers of the past century, and interest in him continues to grow as books about his fantasy, fiction, and biography continue to appear. Although Lewis's personal journey was a deeply...

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)...

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...

In eighteenth-century literature, negative representations of Catholic nuns and convents were pervasive. Yet, during the politico-religious crises initiated by the French Revolution, a striking literary shift took place as British writers championed the...

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...

The Latter Prophets--Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve--comprise a fascinating collection of prophetic oracles, narratives, and vision reports from ancient Israel and Judah. Spanning centuries and showing evidence of compositional...

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)...

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...

The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a...

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)

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 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 9781887593441Author Eric GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams)...

Mycenae, in the north-eastern corner of the plain of Argos in Greece, built atop a natural stronghold, became the preeminent centre of the advanced culture that dominated mainland Greece from the C16th BC to the C12th BC. That advanced culture was named...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861716999Author Sanje ElliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

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...

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...

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...