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Encountering God Through Dance: The Dancing Bride by Saara Taina Publisher Comments Dance away your troubles! You can experience God’s presence and His healing power through dance. The heart of Encountering God Through Dance is to inspire and equip believers to worship Jesus in wholehearted devotion—to express love... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper 
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120 Great Paintings of the Life of Jesus Platinum DVD and Book with CDROM by Dover Publisher Comments This treasury sings with 120 masterful paintings of famous New Testament scenes. Rich, full-color renderings by the finest artists from the Middle Ages through the 20th century include masterpieces by Raphael, Vermeer, El Greco, Giotto, Fra Angelico, and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment by John Daido Loori Publisher Comments When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.94 Sale - Trade Paper
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Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire by Rebecca Ann Parker Publisher Comments One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2008 During their first millennium, Christians filled their sanctuaries with images of Christ as a living presence-as a shepherd, teacher, healer, or an enthroned god. He is serene and surrounded by lush scenes... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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Great Scenes From the Old Testament: a Pictorial Archive of 160 Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfeld Publisher Comments This splendid collection of engravings by one of the most brilliant painters, engravers, and draftsmen of the 19th century includes scores of familiar scenes — from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam and Eve to the story of Noah and his... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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God in the Gallery (08 Edition) by Siedell Publisher Comments Is contemporary art a friend or foe of Christianity? Art historian, critic, and curator Daniel Siedell, addresses this question and presents a framework for interpreting art from a Christian worldview in God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Closer Look: Saints (Closer Look) by Erika Langmuir Publisher Comments Drawing on the National Gallerys comprehensive collection of religious images, A Closer Look: Saints explains the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting. Erika Langmuir underlines the fundamental importance of saints in... (read more) Your price: $17.25 New - Trade Paper
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Joy Lasts: On the Spiritual in Art (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) by Wendy Beckett Publisher Comments Sister Wendy Beckett is one of the best-known art historians in the world today. Here, she explores her reactions to a painting that she finds uniquely compelling: the haunting Christ on a Cross by El Greco. As she candidly admits, "I have always had... (read more) Your price: $19.25 New - Hardcover
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A Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols by Robert Beer Publisher Comments The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols is a portal into the rich, multifaceted, and profound symbolism of Tibetan sacred art. Robert Beer provides a deep and encompassing insight into the vast array of symbols and attributes that appear within the... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Byzantine Art (00 Edition) by Robin Cormack Publisher Comments Mostly religious in function, but preserving the classicism of Greco-Roman art, Byzantine buildings and art objects communicate the purity and certainties of the public face of early Christian art. Focusing on the art of Constantinople between 330 and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection by Annemarie Weyl (edt) Carr Publisher Comments The Menil's collection of Byzantine and related icons is widely regarded as one of the most important in the United States. Comprising more than sixty works, many acquired by Dominique de Menil in 1985 from the noted British collector Eric Bradley,&#... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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Crucifixion by Phaidon Publisher Comments The tragic climax to the Gospel stories, the Crucifixion of Christ is the pivotal event of Christianity. This volume presents a chronological sequence of over 100 of the finest Crucifixion images produced by the greatest artists in the Christian... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Saints of the Southwest by Jim Griffith Publisher Comments "Saints of the Southwest" provides an intimate look at thirty-one of the most revered saints of the Southwest, photographed in both the holiest and most humble of places: an archbishop's private chapel, a roadside shrine, a church of miracles, the wall... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Old Testament Figures in Art (03 Edition) by Chiara De Capoa Publisher Comments Throughout the Middle Ages, sacred Christian art had two objectives: to express veneration for God and to provide illustrative lessons on the Christian faith to a largely illiterate population. Continuing in the spirit of the other books in this series... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art by James Elkins Publisher Comments Religion and serious art have grown apart. While Sister Wendy speaks eloquently about modern art as if it were all religious, art historians distance themselves from the very idea of spirituality. And yet there is a tremendous amount of religious art... (read more) Your price: $43.50 New - Trade Paper
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Idols Behind Altars: Modern Mexican Art and Its Cultural Roots (Economy Editions) by Anita Brenner Publisher Comments Critical study ranges from pre-Columbian times through the 20th century to explore Mexico's intrinsic association between art and religion; the role of iconography in Mexican art; and the return to native values. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1929... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Image of Christ (11 Edition) by Gabriele Finaldi Publisher Comments The Image of Christ expresses the view that modern secular audiences can engage with the masterpieces of Christian art at an emotional as well as a purely aesthetic or historical level. This book aims to help the viewer understand these pictures by... (read more) List Price $27.75 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques (Looking at) by Janet Burnett Grossman Publisher Comments "Tool marks" and "joins", "Cycladic" and "Daedalic styles", and "kouroi" and "kanephoroi" are among the many terms pertaining to the study of classical stone sculpture that are succinctly described in this latest addition to the popular Looking At series.... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Saints: A Year in Faith and Art by Rosa Giorgi Publisher Comments This richly illustrated, unique volume portrays more than 375 Catholic saints, arranged by the days of the year on which each beatified figure is honored. The images range from world-famous works of art by such masters as Caravaggio, Rubens, Velázquez... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain by Vivian B. Mann Book News Annotation Beautifully illustrated with many color plates, this catalogue of four essays was published to accompany an eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) in New York in 2010. Thomas F. Glick (Boston U.), Carmen Lacarra Ducay (U. of... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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