Religious Subjects Depicted in Art

All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and o...

The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The proc...

Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

This innovative book aims to create a poetics of Church and a religious imaginary as alternatives to more institutional and conventional ways of th...

A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations...

First published in 1914, volume one of this study, published under the patronage of the government of His Highness the Maharaja of Travancore, soug...

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in t...

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elemen...

A few selected cases of visions and apparitions are detected and analyzed, including personal interviews with some of the witnesses. Of special in...

Mycenae, in the north-eastern corner of the plain of Argos in Greece, built atop a natural stronghold, became the preeminent centre of the advanced...