Religious Subjects Depicted in Art

In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered ...

In 1639, while the Géluk School of the Fifth Dalai Lama and Qing emperors vied for supreme authority in Inner Asia, Zanabazar (1635-1723), a young ...

Gathered from across the centuries and around the world, this collection of Passover art and objects is at once a breathtaking visual treasury and ...

With new photography of extraordinarily rare works of art, this pioneering study features discoveries and research essential to understanding the o...

Space is all around us and we constantly refer to it. He is taking my space! This place is homely! This room is very impersonal! We need more room...

The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the womens art movement. Conceived as a ...

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes...

The comprehensive study of the Italian Renaissance altarpiece from the 13th to the early 17th century The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive...

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 G...

Sazigyo are fine, tablet-woven Burmese tapes used to bind the palm-leaf manuscripts of an earlier era. Tiny images and extended texts were deftly w...

The Annunciation: a specific event recounted in the Bible and often represented in artworks, but also the prototype of many other announcements thr...

Der gebürtige Mailänder Camillo Rusconi (16581728) gilt als der bedeutendste römische Bildhauer des Spätbarock. In dieser Studie widmet sich Frank ...

Winner of the 2023 IPPY Gold Religion Nonfiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Award Centuries of monumental sculpture, e...

Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology...

Pearls on a String presents the arts of historical Islamic cultures by focusing on specific people and relationships among cultural tastemakers, es...

They are works of art that speak to the creative spirit that once stirred within a heart to carve a statue, to gather stones to build a foundation,...

The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In...

The Virgin and Child Hodegetria was a widely venerated Byzantine image depicting the Virgin holding and pointing to her son as the way to salvation...