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Author: Xavier Bray
Publisher: National Gallery London
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This text reappraises an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In 16th and 17th-century Spain, sculptors worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes"--OCLC
Author: Xavier Bray
Publisher: National Gallery Company
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781857094480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 21 October 2009-24 January 2010 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 28 February-31 May 2010.
Author: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 0393082938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year "This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, and his tragic and mysterious death at age thirty-eight. Featuring more than eighty full-color reproductions of the artist’s best paintings, Caravaggio is a masterful profile of the mercurial painter.
Author: Ive Covaci
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0300215770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalog of the exhibition at the Asia Society Museum, New York, February 9-May 8, 2016.
Author: Glenn Peers
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780271047485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSacred Shock attempts to lay bare the inner workings of Byzantine art by looking closely at the marginal or subsidiary areas in works of art.
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John M. John M. Allegro
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-12-10
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781505452808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first published statement of the fruits of some years' work of a largely philological nature. It presents a new appreciation of the relationship of the languages of the ancient world and the implication of this advance for our understanding of the Bible and of the origins of Christianity.
Author: Marcia B. Hall
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780300169676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderlying the religious art of the Renaissance is a tension between the needs of the Church and the impulse to create great works. This beautifully illustrated book presents sacred images from the 15th and 16th centuries, leading up to two pivotal events in 1563. The Council of Trent, which signified the beginning of the Counter-Reformation, defined requirements that curtailed the freedom of painters and patrons in creating art for churches, while the founding of the Accademia del Desegno in Florence symbolically acknowledged that artists had achieved the status of creators not craftsmen. The author takes a fresh look at some of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance not typically associated with sacred imagery and shows how they navigated their way through the paradox of 'limited freedom' to forge a new kind of religious art. -- from Book Jacket
Author: Amanda Wunder
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2017-03-01
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 027107941X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBaroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as medios divinos—divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or rebuilding of major churches that had stood for hundreds of years. Meant to revive the city spiritually, these works also had a profound real-world impact. Participation in the production of sacred artworks elevated the social standing of the artists who made them and the devout benefactors who commissioned them, and encouraged laypeople to rally around pious causes. Using a diverse range of textual and visual sources, Wunder provides a compelling look at the complex visual world of seventeenth-century Seville and the artistic collaborations that involved all levels of society in the attempt at its revitalization. Vibrantly detailed and thoroughly researched, Baroque Seville is a fascinating account of Seville’s hard-won transformation into one of the foremost centers of Baroque art in Spain during a period of crisis.
Author: Kari Patterson
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Published: 2017-07-25
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0825444470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat if the key to changing your life--and yourself--is already in your hand? So many women struggle with what to do with their daily lives. They feel trapped in everyday drudgery and disappointment, in dull domestic duties, and in mundane jobs they despise. Where is the abundant, purposeful life they were promised? Kari Patterson shows readers the truth: in each unremarkable life lies an opportunity to see, know, love, and be utterly transformed by a God who meets everyone right where they are. Instead of stepping away from real life to find God, Patterson equips women with a six-step practice to move further in and meet Him in the humdrum moments of everyday existence. And when a woman's inner being is truly changed by the sacred, everything in her world changes too--right down to tackling the dirty dishes. Through entertaining narrative, candid real-life stories, Bible study, and practical instruction, Sacred Mundane guides individuals or small groups to discover the beautiful sacredness in the lives they already lead. Women who long to grow in God and make a real difference in the world--no matter how small--will reach eagerly for this book and the radical transformation it offers. "Our daily routine, with its mundane tasks and mindless repetition, is ultimately an offering of worship to God. What a great truth from a great God!" --Ann Byle, author of The Making of a Christian Bestseller and coauthor of Devotions for the Soul Surfer
