Religious

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905203614Author J. Richard JudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1742g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986440731Author Michael G BauschFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Fred Noer/Image SourcePublisher Fred Noer/Image SourceWeight(grams) 172g

This thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition enhances the well-loved and often-used earlier work as a guide to symbolism in Christian liturgical art, architecture, manuscripts, stained glass, and more. The new book is more heavily pictorial in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997281729Author James HoughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint From the Prairie Publications, Inc.Publisher From the Prairie Publications, Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986020551Author Dorothy PigueFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hourglass Book Pub.Publisher Hourglass Book Pub.Weight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692590232Author Laramie SassevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Laughing Dragon PressPublisher Laughing Dragon PressWeight(grams)...

This essay deals with the early history of the notion of an ‘afterlife of antiquity’ as a metaphor for thinking about antiquity’s continued presence in later periods. Nachleben der Antike is often associated with Aby Warburg and...

The so-called Garden of Delights by Jheronimus Bosch (c. 1450-1516), now located in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, was painted over half a millennium ago yet remains an absolutely iconic work in European art history. The highly...

Technology and conservation are indispensible to our understanding of the history of religious art. Material and technical aspects of historical art works yield a great deal of information about provenance, and thus reflect the cultural networks that...

The synoptic Gospels record a remarkable story about an anonymous woman - the `Haemorrhoissa' in further tradition - suffering from incessant uterine bleeding who, without Jesus' intention or knowledge, was healed by his power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772899039Author Soren KaspersenFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120811904Author D.K. ChandraFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,

This volume is an invitation to meet this extraordinary woman of the 13th century, kings daughter, landgravine, and saint, in Germany, Hungry, Italy and Slovakia. The pictures evoke stations of her life, trace the path of her husband Ludwig IV who was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781973663355Author Biji T Kurien Msc Mphil PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint WestBow PressPublisher WestBow PressWeight(grams) 943g

Painting the Divine explores New World images of the Virgin Mary that portray some of the events in her life, as well as examples of apparitions unique to various locales in the Americas. Iconography seen in these artworks tells a story that mixes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501048Author KaufmannPage Count 381Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

After an immense process of careful restoration and conservation, the outstanding artistry of the Great East Window is revealed afresh through state-of-the art photography that captures the complete sequence of major panels, in corrected placements, for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684620524Author Pamela ThayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sixth & Spring BooksPublisher Sixth & Spring Books

Working in obscurity in rural Alabama for over seven years, Myrtice West painted the entire book of Revelation in thirteen large, vivid paintings. Now a leading 'outsider/self-taught' artist, West has since created numerous visionary, religious-inspired...

With elements of catalogue, guidebook, and historical summary, this richly illustrated book offers a comprehensive source of information for art historians, folk art enthusiasts, museum curators, and the casual traveller to Chiapas. The Mexican state of...

For over three hundred years, the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe in her Mexican invocation has been celebrated in New Mexico. Our Lady of Guadalupe, the famous image of Mary in a body halo, has transcended the bounds of religion and institution to become an...

This collection examines the production and recreation of religious ideas and images in different times and locations, achieving a comparative perspective on the transmission of religious influences. The essayists look at contact and conflict between...

The first object created by God, according to early Muslim commentators, was the pen, which he used to chronicle events to come. The word, in its various manifestations, is central to the Islamic faith. Surely a reflection of this centrality, profuse...

How do we live the moral life? How can we become good and responsible parents, co-workers, and citizens? Essential to the task of becoming fully authentic persons and building genuine communities is seeking goodness and the presence of divine beauty in...

How do we live the moral life? How can we become good and responsible parents, co-workers, and citizens? Essential to the task of becoming fully authentic persons and building genuine communities is seeking goodness and the presence of divine beauty in...

"This is a surprising detective story tracing the very complex paths and intersections of cultural, iconographical, and theological influences that formed the architecture and liturgical spaces of New Spain. I don't know of another scholar who has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170174165Author Madhu WangooFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Abhinav PublicationsPublisher Abhinav PublicationsWeight(grams) 217g

A stain is the evidence of something that was. It’s a trace. A stain may be something quite ordinary: the ink stain on my index finger; the mark of your fingers on this book. A stain may also be embarrassing: lipstick on a cheek;...

The anthology Decapitation and Sacrifice is the result of an interdisciplinary project on the phenomenon of the decapitated head of Saint John the Baptist in its exegetical context, in the material culture of the Middle Ages and the...

The focus of these essays is the impact of wind, pneuma, and movement in medieval and early modern iconography on art historical hermeneutics. What can wind, pneuma, and movement tell us about the visual medium as such? Wind joins,...

The past was over, the future was not there yet and the present was a future past. Throughout the long nineteenth century, past and present had become traces and layers, burdened with an inescapable dimension of absence. Writers,...

Because Dutch seventeenth-century painting is primarily known for its naturalism, representing the divine posed particular problems for painters of religious stories, especially Rembrandt. Indeed, if seeing is believing, then the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788174363213Author Dr. ShashibalaFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Roli Books Pvt LtdPublisher Roli Books Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 78g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795424206Author Rolf PossFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Schnell & SteinerPublisher Schnell & SteinerWeight(grams) 1220g

Refresh your soul with beautifully rendered pieces of art paired with thought-provoking devotions. The designers and writers collaboratively invested their energy and creativity into this collection, each drawing upon the timeless, inspired words of...

Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints - or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called - by the Jesuits and Oratorians in the new environment of...

Mater Misericordiae-Mother of Mercy-emerged as one of the most prolific subjects in central Italian art from the late thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. With iconographic origins in Marian cult relics brought from Palestine to Constantinople in...

Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of these artists' connection with shamanism has been written...

In The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art, Katherine T. Brown explores the lore of the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the "true image" relic as factors in the Franciscans' placement of her character into the Via Crucis...

At the turn of the twentieth century, American popular culture was booming with opportunities to see Jesus Christ. From the modernized eyewitness gospel of Ben-Hur to the widely circulated passion play films of Edison, Lumiere, and Pathe; from D. W...