Religious Subjects Depicted in Art

In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images...

This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the mag...

The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound shift in aesth...

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How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objectsBased on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many a...

An investigation into the manifestations of religious art in East Anglia and how they are connected to and inspired by their locations. The relati...

An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England. The twelfth centu...

Survey of the growth and development of the magnificent shrines which reached their apogee during the middle ages. The cult of saints is one of th...

When writers write, they are getting in touch with the image of God in them. This is true in some way of all artistry, but writers especially creat...

Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe explores medieval sculptors motif of the open mouth. The speech mode, as it is called in this book, is ...

Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe explores medieval sculptors motif of the open mouth. The speech mode, as it is called in this book, is ...