Understanding Early Christian Art
Title | Understanding Early Christian Art PDF eBook |
Author | Robin M. Jensen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135951772 |
Understanding Early Christian Art is designed for students of both religion and of art history. It makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students of religion, to help them understand better the visual representations of Christianity. It will also aid art historians in comprehending the complex theology, history and context of Christian art. This interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking approach will enable students in several fields to further their understanding and knowledge of the art of the early Christian era. Understanding Early Christian Art contains over fifty images with parallel text.
A Journey Into Christian Art
Title | A Journey Into Christian Art PDF eBook |
Author | Helen De Borchgrave |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781451409543 |
Depicts the methods used by Christian artists, including mosaic, paint, and stone, over a 2,000-year period to portray their search for spirituality.
Christian Art
Title | Christian Art PDF eBook |
Author | Rowena Loverance |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780674024793 |
At once a sumptuously illustrated survey of Christian art over time and across the globe as well as a study of what RChristian artS really means, Loverance concludes with an assessment of the current state of this art form at the beginning of the 21st century.
Picturing the Bible
Title | Picturing the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Spier |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300116830 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and shown there November 18, 2007 - March 30, 2008.
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons
Title | The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas F. Mathews |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 59 |
Release | 2017-02-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606065092 |
Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the origin of icons in the seventh century, Thomas F. Mathews finds strong evidence as early as the second century in the texts of Irenaeus and the Acts of John that describe private Christian worship. In closely studying an obscure set of sixty neglected panel paintings from Egypt in Roman times, the author explains how these paintings of the Egyptian gods offer the missing link in the long history of religious painting. Christian panel paintings and icons are for the first time placed in a continuum with the pagan paintings that preceded them, sharing elements of iconography, technology, and religious usages as votive offerings. Exciting discoveries punctuate the narrative: the technology of the triptych, enormously popular in Europe, traced by the authors to the construction of Egyptian portable shrines, such as the Isis and Serapis of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the discovery that the egg tempera painting medium, usually credited to Renaissance artist Cimabue, has been identified in Egyptian panels a millennium earlier; and the reconstruction of a ring of icons on the chancel of Saint Sophia in Istanbul. This book will be a vital addition to the fields of Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, and late-antique art history and, more generally, to the history of painting.
Christ for All People
Title | Christ for All People PDF eBook |
Author | Ron O'Grady |
Publisher | Auckland : Pace Pub. ; Ottawa : Novalis |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
A collection of Christian art from every region of the world celebrating Christ's early ministry, Christ as a teacher, the last days of his life, the Crucifixion and the days after - Images of God - Images and Christianity.
Signs & Symbols in Christian Art
Title | Signs & Symbols in Christian Art PDF eBook |
Author | George Ferguson |
Publisher | New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780195014327 |
Examines the use and meaning of Christian symbols found in Renaissance art.