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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...
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Holy Cards
by Barbara Calamari Publisher Comments Holy cards offer comfort, consolation, and encouragement to Catholics, who often carry these portable images of their favorite saints with them and use them in daily religious ritual. Given as remembrances at wakes and funerals, communions and...
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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...
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Saints in Art
by Rosa Giorgi Synopsis Christian saints have been the objects of reverence and fascination throughout the past two millennia. Their likenesses, heroic acts, prayerful lives, and stories of martyrdom have been portrayed frequently in art of diverse media. Unfamiliar with the...
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Annunciation
by Phaidon Synopsis The first in a series inspired by key events in the New Testament, this book presents a sequence of over 100 masterpieces of Christian art, each depicting the moment when the Angel Gabriel reveals to the Virgin Mary her destiny as the Mother of God....
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The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith
by Patricia C Pongracz Synopsis If you're a contemporary artist using biblical themes, you must be either offensively radical or sentimentally traditional, right? Well, not exactly, according to "The Next Generation. Featuring the works of forty-four North American artists in media...
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Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello
by Jules Lubbock Book News Annotation Shortly after their unveiling, the locals would have stood before the frescoes, not just to see them, but to read them in the particular language that was art and faith before them. They would have understood from the turn of the hand on the far right...
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The Old Testament: Through 100 Masterpieces of Art
by Regis Debray Synopsis The Old Testament spectacularly presents 100 great paintings illustrating 100 key stories from the Bible. In this accessible primer each story is concisely retold in everyday language, followed by a commentary on how it has been depicted in Western art...
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The Messiah: An Illustrated Biography of Jesus Christ
by Jacques Duquesne Publisher Comments Few stories have captivated the world's imagination as much as the biblical account of the life of Jesus Christ. From the Nativity to the Sermon on the Mount, the Last Supper to the Resurrection, artists continually revisit these New Testament tales...
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Christian Art
by Rowena Loverance Publisher Comments Palm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier-mandacirc;chandeacute; figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such...
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Patron Saints: A Feast of Holy Cards
by Barbara Calamari Publisher Comments This wonderful new compilation of devotional art, brought to you by the authors of Holy Cards, combines the collectible, portable charm of holy cards with the humanistic appeal of saints. From the thousands of Catholic saints, authors Barbara Calamari...
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Visions of Mary
by Barbara Calamari Publisher Comments The Virgin Mary inspires intense religious devotion throughout the Catholic world. In her 350 official incarnations-among them Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, and The Mother of Sorrows-Mary brings a feminine face to...
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The Faces of Christ in Sonora: Los Rostros del Senor En Sonora
by James S. Griffith Publisher Comments A sumptuous full-color study of devotional art. Renowned folklorist James S. Griffith teams up with Mexican scholar Francisco Javier Manzo Taylor to celebrate the compelling images of Christ found in churches, chapels, roadside shrines, and personal...
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A Treasury of Anglican Art
by James Simpson Publisher Comments The first comprehensive book on the art and architecture of the Anglican (Episcopal) Church, will serve to many as an eye-opener that will dazzle and excite the senses and the mind. The Anglican Church has some of the greatest works of religious art in...
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The Foundations of Christian Art (Sacred Art in Tradition)
by Titus Burckhardt Synopsis Titus Burckhardt was a renowned expert on the art of traditional worlds. This book takes the reader through the history of Christian art, focusing especially upon architecture, iconography, and illumination....
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Understanding Early Christian Art (00 Edition)
by Robin Margaret Jensen Synopsis This text makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students, which should enable them to understand better the visual representations of Christianity. It could also aid art historians in comprehending the complex theology, history and...
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Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (Booknotes)
by Virginia Reynolds Publisher Comments Is your life graced by a guardian angel? Is there an angel within you? What better way to embrace the Christmas spirit than through this heavenly book that celebrates angels of every kind? Hark! The Herald Angels Sing explores the Origins of Angels...
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Angels and Demons in Art (Guide to Imagery)
by Rosa Zuffi Giorgi Publisher Comments This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the Guide to Imagery...
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Dictionary of Christian Art Rev Edition
by Linda Murray Publisher Comments Now available for the first time in the Oxford Paperback Reference series, the Dictionary of Christian Art is a fascinating exploration of the art and architecture that has been influenced and inspired by Christian history and beliefs. Combining general...
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Buddha & Christ
by Robert Elinor Synopsis Buddha and Christ is an exploration of the visual images produced by two of the world's great religions, and the cultural and spiritual traditions that inform and support them. Its purpose is threefold. First, its attention to the way in which the images...
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