Religious Subjects Depicted in Art

Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and la...

An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the arts In this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous t...

Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigat...

'ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art' explores some of underlying methodological assumptions in the field of...

An illuminating look at the iconography of the early church and its important place in the history of Christian artIn this book, historian André Gr...

From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulch...

This volume examines Saint Georges intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how...

Martin Luthers Bible, first printed in 1534, was not only a milestone for the printing press, but also a momentous event in world history. A UNESCO...

This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art throughout the centuries. This book demonstrat...

Fides quaerens intellectum is the idea that living faith naturally seeks a more complete understanding of God in relation to his creation. It has m...

The Book of Miracles first surfaced only a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-c...

Long Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernism and its legacies, with pa...