Religious Subjects Depicted in Art

This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools an...

Art is all around us, but few people truly understand it. Barrs helps readers evaluate and define great art through an investigation of the work of...

The worship of the orisha (god) Eshu continues to this day across the Black Atlantic in Brazil and the Caribbean, and statues of him can also be fo...

Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue s...

The Chapel of St John the Baptist is a unique masterpiece of European art, with enormous historical, cultural and artistic importance. It was const...

A stunning showcase of exceptional and rare works of Buddhist art, presented to the international community for the first time The practice of Budd...

The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so be appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg ...

The 18th-century Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represen...

Erika Langmuir examines the presence and surprisingly complicated history of angels in Christian art. She points out that angels need not be winged...

The Haggadot commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages are among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts, and The Brother Haggad...

Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away is a rich study of O'Connor's second novel by nine scholars in the fields of...