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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Religious subjects depicted in art

A Companion in Crisis - A Modern Paraphrase of John Donne's Devotions (Paperback): Philip Yancey A Companion in Crisis - A Modern Paraphrase of John Donne's Devotions (Paperback)
Philip Yancey
R330 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R23 (7%) Out of stock
Brushes with the Bible (Hardcover): Shlomo Riskin, Yardenna Lubotzky, Ruth Mark Brushes with the Bible (Hardcover)
Shlomo Riskin, Yardenna Lubotzky, Ruth Mark
R1,209 R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Save R157 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Seeing God in Art: The Christian Faith in 30 Masterpieces (Paperback): Seeing God in Art: The Christian Faith in 30 Masterpieces (Paperback)
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R486 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R90 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Over the centuries some of the world's greatest painters have explored and expressed their faith in God through their art. Here, Richard Harries invites you to reflect with him on thirty such artists, and to see how their paintings illuminate important aspects of Christian faith and teaching. Encompassing masterpieces by Rembrandt, Leonardo, Titian and Caravaggio as well as modern works by Chagall, Spencer and Rouault, this book presents the essentials of the faith in a way that will move the reader to respond with heart as well as head.

Faith & Devotion Coloring Book (Paperback): Editors of Chartwell Books Faith & Devotion Coloring Book (Paperback)
Editors of Chartwell Books
R181 Discovery Miles 1 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 11 (Paperback): Bracha Yaniv, Sara Offenberg, Mirjam Rajner, Ilia Rodov Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 11 (Paperback)
Bracha Yaniv, Sara Offenberg, Mirjam Rajner, Ilia Rodov
R1,724 Discovery Miles 17 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ars Judaica is an annual publication of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. It showcases the Jewish contribution to the visual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present from a variety of perspectives, including history, iconography, semiotics, psychology, sociology, and folklore. As such it is a valuable resource for art historians, collectors, curators, and all those interested in the visual arts. Contributors: Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University of New Jersey, Batya Brutin, Beit Berl Academic College, Zofit, Warren Zev Harvey, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Moshe Idel, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem; Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sara Offenberg, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, Nils Roemer, University of Texas at Dallas, Debra Higgs Strickland, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, Annette Weber, Hochschule fur Judische Studien, Heidelberg Volumes of Ars Judaica are distributed by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization throughout the world, except Israel. Orders and enquiries from Israeli customers should be directed to: Ars Judaica Department of Jewish Art Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan 52900 telephone 03 5318413 fax 03 6359241 email [email protected]

El progreso del peregrino - Un clasico cristiano ilustrado (Spanish, Hardcover): John Bunyan El progreso del peregrino - Un clasico cristiano ilustrado (Spanish, Hardcover)
John Bunyan
R618 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R73 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Impresionantes ilustraciones pintadas a mano y comentarios esclarecedores dan vida a esta obra maestra. Escrito desde la celda de la carcel de Bunyan, El progreso del peregrino representa evocativamente una historia de lucha, perseverancia y fe. Con anotaciones y arte a traves del libro, esta edicion te invita a descubrir de nuevo la riqueza y los matices de este querido clasico. Originalmente escrito para el hombre comun, el clasico cristiano de John Bunyan tambien ha encontrado su camino en las bibliotecas de academicos y universidades, una verdadera obra maestra para todos los tiempos. Su riqueza historica, su simbolismo elocuente y su prosa deslumbrante han resistido la prueba del tiempo, y esta nueva edicion ayuda a los lectores a apreciar la belleza perdurable que se encuentra en las palabras de Bunyan. Para los fanaticos desde hace mucho tiempo del cuento de Bunyan, o para aquellos que lo han encontrado por primera vez, esta edicion ilustrada ofrece una nueva belleza y perspectiva. A los fanaticos del texto les encantaran las hermosas escenas pintadas a mano al comienzo de cada capitulo, y los lectores obtendran una comprension mas profunda de la alegoria a partir de las anotaciones insertadas en cada capitulo de este cuento clasico. El progreso del peregrino ha inspirado a los lectores a traves de los siglos a perseverar en su fe. Desde su publicacion en 1678, este libro ha sido traducido a mas de 200 idiomas. Es un best seller mundial, solo superado por la Biblia, y se ha convertido en un sello distintivo entre academicos y teologos de todo el mundo. !Un elemento basico para cualquier biblioteca domestica!

Visualizing Guadalupe - From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas (Hardcover): Jeanette Favrot Peterson Visualizing Guadalupe - From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas (Hardcover)
Jeanette Favrot Peterson
R1,638 R1,538 Discovery Miles 15 380 Save R100 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Virgin of Guadalupe is famously migratory, traversing continents and crossing and recrossing oceans. Guadalupe's earliest cult originated in medieval Iberia, where Our Lady of Guadalupe from Extremadura, Spain, played a significant role in the reconquista and garnered royal backing. The Spanish Guadalupe accompanied the conquistadors as part of the spiritual arsenal used to Christianize the Americas, where new images of the Virgin acted as catalysts to implant her devotion within multiethnic constituencies. This masterful study by Jeanette Favrot Peterson traces the transmission of Guadalupe as la Virgen de ida y vuelta from Spain to the Americas and back again, analyzing how the Spanish and Mexican titular images, and a selection of the copies they inspired, operated within the overlapping spheres of religion and politics. Peterson explores two central paradoxes: that only through a material object can a divine and invisible presence be authenticated and that Guadalupe's images were made to work for enacting revolutionary change while preserving the colonial status quo. She examines the artists who created images of Guadalupe, their patrons, and the diverse viewing audiences for whom those images were intended. This exegesis reveals that visual evidence functioned on a par with written texts (treatises, chronicles, and sermons of ecclesiastical officialdom) in measuring popular beliefs and political strategies.

Performing the Visual - The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 (Hardcover, Revised): Sarah... Performing the Visual - The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 (Hardcover, Revised)
Sarah E. Fraser
R1,917 Discovery Miles 19 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Performing the Visual explores the practice of wall painting in China from a new perspective. Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters' pictorial strategies. She also examines the financial accounting of Buddhist temples, providing practical information that ninth- and tenth-century critics ignored: how artists were paid and when, the temple's role as mediator between patrons and artists, and the way painters functioned outside the monastic system, working in guilds and secular academies affiliated with local government. Based on the careful study of hundreds of inaccessible wall paintings at Dunhuang, arguably Asia's largest and most important Buddhist site, the author shows that although critics celebrated spontaneous feats with brush and ink, artists at Dunhuang were heavily dependent on concrete tools such as sketches in the preparation of wall painting.

Icons - Worship and Adoration (Hardcover): Christoph Gunenberg, Eva Fischer-Hausdorf Icons - Worship and Adoration (Hardcover)
Christoph Gunenberg, Eva Fischer-Hausdorf
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When considering the term “icon”, how can the idea of cultic worship be connected with the concept of the transcendental today? The qualities of the traditional icon continue to have an effect, particularly in the spiritual presence and auratic power of many modern and contemporary artworks. This volume presents masterpieces which expressesaspects of spirituality and reverence in a variety of individual ways.

The works extend from Russian icons via Caspar David Friedrich, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Yves Klein to Andy Warhol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Isa Genzken and Andreas Gursky.

Everyday icons from the world of brands and pop culture complete the range of images. The choice of works and the essays by selected authors contrast the interpretation of the traditional concept of the icon in art with the phenomenon of the creation of icons in our day-to-day environment. The publication aims to demonstrate the spiritual power of art and invites the reader to contemplation.

Stirrings of the Wind - A Magical Treasure of Stories (Paperback): Mary a. Cole Stirrings of the Wind - A Magical Treasure of Stories (Paperback)
Mary a. Cole
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Aroma of Beauty (Paperback): Roger W Lowther Aroma of Beauty (Paperback)
Roger W Lowther; Foreword by Makoto Fujimura
R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hidden Possibilities - Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark (Hardcover): Robert E. Hosmer Jr Hidden Possibilities - Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark (Hardcover)
Robert E. Hosmer Jr
R2,864 Discovery Miles 28 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Described by David Lodge as "the most gifted and innovative writer of her generation," Muriel Spark had a literary career that spanned from the late 1940s until her death in 2006, and included poems, stories, plays, essays, and, most notably, novels. The extensive bibliography of her works included in this collection reveals the astonishing output of a powerful and sustained creative spirit. Hidden Possibilities gathers a distinguished group of writers from both sides of the Atlantic to offer an informed overview of Muriel Spark's life and work. Critics have often read Spark in a somewhat narrow context-as a Catholic, a woman, or a Scottish writer. The essays in this volume, while making connections between these contexts, cumulatively situate her in a broader European tradition. The volume includes interviews with Spark that cast light both on the course of her professional life and on her notably distinctive personality. Contributors: Regina Barreca, Gerard Carruthers, Barbara Epler, John Glavin, Dan Gunn, Robert E. Hosmer Jr., Joseph Hynes, Gabriel Josipovici, Frank Kermode, John Lanchester, Doris Lessing, David Malcolm, John Mortimer, Alan Taylor, and John Updike.

Ars Sacra, 800-1200 (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Peter Lasko Ars Sacra, 800-1200 (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Peter Lasko
R2,916 Discovery Miles 29 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The magnificent bronze doors of Hildesheim Cathedral, the ivory, gold, enameled, and bejeweled book covers made to contain superbly illuminated manuscripts, the startling reliquary caskets made in the shape of the part of the body supposed to be contained within them-these and other sacred objects were contained within church treasuries and cloisters in the early Middle Ages in Europe. This beautiful book traces the development of these so-called Minor Arts and the major role they played alongside the other pictorial arts and architectural sculpture of the period. Although it is impossible to establish a strict chronology of this period, since styles evolved concurrently and with varying speed across diverse regions of Europe, Peter Lasko has established an object-based chronology that enables him to trace the developments of these styles. In addition, he describes the personalities, stylistic traits, and influence of some of the great craftsmen whose names are briefly recorded in cathedral treasury records. He surveys the sacred arts from Scandinavia to Spain and from Italy to England, examining the impact of English art on the court of Charlemagne and investigating external influences on English art both before and after the Norman Conquest. Lasko records the wide range of opinions on style and method and also explicates his own; his comprehensive survey of craftsmanship alters previous assumptions about chronologies, creates new groupings of materials, and reassesses stylistic sources.

Seeking Stillness or The Sound of Wings (Hardcover): Hector Acero Ferrer, Michael De Moor, Peter Enneson Seeking Stillness or The Sound of Wings (Hardcover)
Hector Acero Ferrer, Michael De Moor, Peter Enneson
R1,701 R1,329 Discovery Miles 13 290 Save R372 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Giotto and His Publics - Three Paradigms of Patronage (Hardcover): Julian Gardner Giotto and His Publics - Three Paradigms of Patronage (Hardcover)
Julian Gardner
R998 Discovery Miles 9 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This probing analysis of three works by Giotto and the patrons who commissioned them goes far beyond the cliches of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers, illuminating the complex interplay between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty.

Political strife and religious faction lacerated fourteenth-century Italy. Giotto s commissions are best understood against the background of this social turmoil. They reflected the demands of his patrons, the requirements of the Franciscan Order, and the restlessly inventive genius of the painter. Julian Gardner examines this important period of Giotto s path-breaking career through works originally created for Franciscan churches: "Stigmatization of Saint Francis" from San Francesco at Pisa, now in the Louvre, the Bardi Chapel cycle of the "Life of St. Francis" in Santa Croce at Florence, and the frescoes of the crossing vault above the tomb of Saint Francis in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi.

These murals were executed during a twenty-year period when internal tensions divided the friars themselves and when the Order was confronted by a radical change of papal policy toward its defining vow of poverty. The Order had amassed great wealth and built ostentatious churches, alienating many Franciscans in the process and incurring the hostility of other Orders. Many elements in Giotto s frescoes, including references to St. Peter, Florentine politics, and church architecture, were included to satisfy patrons, redefine the figure of Francis, and celebrate the dominant group within the Franciscan brotherhood.

Devotions for the Artist at Heart - Get Creative and Draw Your Devotions (Paperback): Tina Rae Devotions for the Artist at Heart - Get Creative and Draw Your Devotions (Paperback)
Tina Rae
R454 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R61 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trier Sakrale Schatze / Sacred Treasures - Kostbarkeiten Aus 1500 Jahren: Ein Auswahlkatalog / Precious Pieces of 1500 Years: A... Trier Sakrale Schatze / Sacred Treasures - Kostbarkeiten Aus 1500 Jahren: Ein Auswahlkatalog / Precious Pieces of 1500 Years: A Selection (Paperback)
Jurgen Von Ahn, Kirstin Mannhardt
R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art (Hardcover): Robin M Jensen, Mark D. Ellison The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art (Hardcover)
Robin M Jensen, Mark D. Ellison
R6,457 Discovery Miles 64 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of the subject and then presents fifteen essays that discuss specific media of visual art-catacomb paintings, sculpture, mosaics, gold glass, gems, reliquaries, ceramics, icons, ivories, textiles, silver, and illuminated manuscripts. Each is written by a noted expert in the field. The second part of the book takes up themes relevant to the study of early Christian art. These seven chapters consider the ritual practices in decorated spaces, the emergence of images of Christ's Passion and miracles, the functions of Christian secular portraits, the exemplary mosaics of Ravenna, the early modern history of Christian art and archaeology studies, and further reflection on this field called "early Christian art." Each of the volume's chapters includes photographs of many of the objects discussed, plus bibliographic notes and recommendations for further reading. The result is an invaluable introduction to and appraisal of the art that developed out of the spread of Christianity through the late antique world. Undergraduate and graduate students of late classical, early Christian, and Byzantine culture, religion, or art will find it an accessible and insightful orientation to the field. Additionally, professional academics, archivists, and curators working in these areas will also find it valuable as a resource for their own research, as well as a textbook or reference work for their students.

Composition as Conversation - Seven Virtues for Effective Writing (Hardcover): Heather M Hoover Composition as Conversation - Seven Virtues for Effective Writing (Hardcover)
Heather M Hoover
R1,225 Discovery Miles 12 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform (Hardcover, New Ed): Douglas N. Dow Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform (Hardcover, New Ed)
Douglas N. Dow
R4,225 Discovery Miles 42 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a crucial moment in their histories. Each of the organizations that forms the basis for this study oversaw renovations that included decorative programs centered on the apostles. At the complex of GesA(1) Pellegrino a fresco cycle represents the apostles in their roles as Christ's disciples and proselytizers. At the oratory of the company of Santissima Annunziata a series of frescoes shows their martyrdoms, the terrible price the apostles paid for their mission and their faith. At the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo a sculptural program of the apostles stood as an example to each confratello of how Christian piety had its roots in collective effort. Douglas Dow shows that the emphasis on the apostles within these corporate groups demonstrates how the organizations adapted existing iconography to their own purposes. He argues that their willful engagement with apostolic themes reveals the complex interaction between these organizations and the church's program of reform.

Virgins & Jezebels - The Origins of Christian Misogyny (Paperback): Chris Geraghty Virgins & Jezebels - The Origins of Christian Misogyny (Paperback)
Chris Geraghty
R908 R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Save R127 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
50 Bible Stories Every Adult Should Know - Two-Volume Set (Hardcover): Matthew Lockhart 50 Bible Stories Every Adult Should Know - Two-Volume Set (Hardcover)
Matthew Lockhart
R1,268 R1,098 Discovery Miles 10 980 Save R170 (13%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Saintly Brides and Bridegrooms - The Mystic Marriage in Northern Renaissance Art (Hardcover, New): Carolyn D. Muir Saintly Brides and Bridegrooms - The Mystic Marriage in Northern Renaissance Art (Hardcover, New)
Carolyn D. Muir
R3,368 Discovery Miles 33 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Building upon recent scholarly interest in mystics and mysticism in late medieval Europe, this book explores the visual representation of female and male saints depicted as brides or bridegrooms of Christ in northern European art from 1300 to 1550. The mystic marriage imagery of St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Agnes of Rome, St. John the Evangelist, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and the Blessed Henry Suso is studied through an analysis of a wide range of paintings, illuminated manuscripts, prints, and sculpture. From these case studies, Muir argues that different visual conventions were used in the art of this period to portray the male and female experiences of mystic marriage and suggests possible reasons for these differences. She further considers why comparatively few mystics were visually portrayed in a mystic marriage with Christ, despite the large number recorded as having had that experience. Providing insights into the meanings of the mystical experience when portrayed in visual terms, this book will appeal to art historians as well as to other medievalists with an interest in the intersections of art, religion, and gender.

Devotions of a Saint - A Short Book of Poetry (Paperback): Paula A Price Devotions of a Saint - A Short Book of Poetry (Paperback)
Paula A Price
R319 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Save R60 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Angels - Seen and Unseen (Hardcover, Unabridged edition): Stephen Miller The Book of Angels - Seen and Unseen (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Stephen Miller
R2,199 Discovery Miles 21 990 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Both collectively and individually we have a deep and abiding fascination with angels. This book explores depictions of angels in the visual arts and in scripture and associated apocryphal and mystical writings, specifically in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and Islamic, Zoroastrian and other ancient and latter-day accounts. It examines the visual clues, artistic conventions and attributes that have been set down to help us to recognise angels in their particular roles and functions. Certain writings have had a particularly influential bearing on our understanding of angels. This text focuses on the hierarchies and orders proposed by the likes of Pseudo-Dionysius, St. Thomas Aquinas and others. In a new age of fascination with the metaphysical and supernatural (in film, television, popular mythology and literature), are we cementing or losing our connection with the authentic meaning and purpose that such vibrant and energised beings bring to our table? This book contains more than 30 illustrations in a central colour plates section. It also includes a useful glossary of terms and will prove a rich and enduring reference resource for libraries, as well as a stimulating go-to source for those interested in the world of angels and how human sensibilities and imaginative reasoning have enriched the subject, as a starting point for interreligious dialogue.

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