Sculpting Angels

Sculpting Angels

Author: Jeyakar Vedamanickam Ph.D.

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1482883724

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All parents wish that their children grow up to lead a vibrant, creative and innovative life. The question is - what should parents do to make this wish come true? This book answers the question. The book contains thirty-three simple yet profound thoughts for parents to reflect on. The thought could be a helpful principle to follow, a method to practise, or a value to abide by. Parenting and nurturing creativity are skills, which are honed with practice. Therefore, each of the thirty-three chapters in the book describes an activity for the family to carry out and put into practice and adopt the idea in the home. The book is a culture-free work and is of value to any discerning parent who is keen for the blossoming of creativity in their children.


Freeing the Angel from the Stone

Freeing the Angel from the Stone

Author: Jerry Koffler

Publisher: John d Calandra Italian-American

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780970340320

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The authors present a guide book to the major sculpture of the Piccirilli brothers in New York City.


Angels in Art

Angels in Art

Author: Nancy Grubb

Publisher: Abbeville Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This lavish and inclusive compilation of angels in art features depictions of cherubs, guardian angels, heavenly messengers, and more, from the Middle Ages to contemporary times, represented in frescoes, oil paintings, mosaics, prints, stained glass, tapestries, manuscript illuminations, and sculpture. Includes an index of illustrators.


The Angel Oracle

The Angel Oracle

Author: Ambika Wauters

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995-10-15

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780312133016

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Angels appear in all cultures throughout the world. Angel Oracle shows how to work with angels and their energy in everyday life and offers divinatory guidance on finding solutions to problems, inner peace and healing, as well as help in common dilemmas.


Italian Medieval Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters

Italian Medieval Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1588393968

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"The collection of Italian medieval sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters began with the acquisition in 1908 of a Romanesque column statue; today the Museum's holdings comprise more than seventy works dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century ... The birthplaces of these works range from Sicily to Venice; some typify local styles, others illustrate the intense artistic exchanges taking place within Italy and between Italy and the wider world ... Technological advances of the last decades have made it possible to determine more precisely the materials and techniques from which works of art are made, the history of their alteration, and the mechanisms of their deterioration. Using such techniques, scholars have been able to ascertain, for example, that sculptures previously thought to be modern works carved in the medieval manner were in fact completely authentic. This innovative volume represents a watershed in the study of sculpture: a collaborative dialogue between an art historian and a conservator—between art history and art science—that deepens our understanding of the object we see, while illuminating its elusive, enigmatic history"--From publisher's description.


A Community of Angels

A Community of Angels

Author: Michele Dugan

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781883318277

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A beautiful, larger-sized book that provides fascinating insights into the inspiration of the artists and sponsors responsible for bringing this incredible Public Arts Project & fund raising art exhibit to the City of Angels


English Medieval Sculpture

English Medieval Sculpture

Author: Arthur Gardner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-08-11

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0521166195

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First published in 1951, this volume provides a historical study of English sculpture during the medieval period.


Polychrome Sculpture

Polychrome Sculpture

Author: Johannes Taubert

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1606064339

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In the decades since its initial publication in German in 1978, Polychrome Sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. An early proponent of interdisciplinary research, Johannes Taubert played a pioneering role in combining the rigorous scientific analysis of materials with a fuller understanding of form and function, an approach that has led to the development of technical art history as practiced today. Many of the essays in this volume apply such scientific techniques as microscopic analysis to an art-historical understanding of Romanesque and late Gothic wood sculpture, revealing that, far from serving a merely decorative function, the painted surface of these works was intricately connected to their meaning. The paint layers on the sculptures, for example, which the author spent years documenting through close examination and analysis, were intended to impart a heightened sense of reality to the life-sized sculptures, thereby enhancing the viewer’s experience of worship. Taubert believed it was crucial for conservators to understand this context before undertaking any treatments. No other book offers such a focused, subtle, and interdisciplinary examination of the subject as Polychrome Sculpture. This influential work is now available in English for the first time, in a meticulous translation enhanced and updated by new color illustrations, annotations to the original text, and a new introduction.