Religious Subjects Depicted in Art

From the same series as Abrams’ successful Saints: A Year in Faith and Art comes Angels: Heavenly Messengers, with representations of these celesti...

Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry ph...

With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways...

With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways...

Patricia Badir's The Maudlin Impression investigates the figure of Mary Magdalene in post-medieval English religious writings and visual representa...

An in-depth examination of William Blake’s glorious and acclaimed series of twelve monoprints Among William Blake’s (1757–1827) most widely recogni...

Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not...

Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and vis...

This collection of essays by biblical scholars is the first book-length treatment of the 2014 film Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film has...

An eminent theologian’s original and compelling study of how images of Jesus through history reveal each era’s temper and values  “A rich and expa...

In eighteenth-century literature, negative representations of Catholic nuns and convents were pervasive. Yet, during the politico-religious crises ...

This catalogue for the 5th Art Brut Biennial at the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne highlights the museum’s holdings with a focus on the subje...

Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality within the framework of the religious Zeitgeist of his era, this study investigates his poet...

The Body of the Cross is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history and how the uses of their bodies in Christian thought led to the idea...

The Body of the Cross is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history and how the uses of their bodies in Christian thought led to the idea...

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and bill...

In The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art, Katherine T. Brown explores the lore of the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the ...

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...

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...

Icons are among the most elusive subjects in the history of art, but at the same time their study constitutes possibly its fastest expanding field,...

Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants invoked saints, ...

This book highlights the history of Islamic popular devotional art and visual culture in 20th-century India, weaving the personal narrative of the ...

Professor Lillich has studied medieval stained glass - the major painting medium of the Gothic era - for forty years. The articles in this volume d...

A vital collection of interdisciplinary essays that illuminates the significance of Marian shrines and promises to teach scholars how to “read” the...

A full-color exploration of DMT beings and Ayahuasca spirits• Examines 25 of the most commonly encountered DMT entities, from machine elves and fai...

This vast reference resource will appeal to anyone who wishes to find depictions of New Testament narratives from scholars, to students, to picture...

In this innovative and lavishly illustrated study John Harvey examines the visual expression of religious and spiritual concepts in Nonconformist W...

Between the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses, and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for a millennium were...

Established in 1917, the Index of Christian Art, located at Princeton University, is now the largest archive of medieval art in existence and the m...

An important reconceptualisation is taking place in the way people express creativity, work together, and engage in labour; particularly, suggests ...

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes ...

Presents the story of Fairford's windows. This book studies the medieval stained glazing scheme in the context of the economic and religious life o...

The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ri...

Wie definierte sich im päpstlichen Rom der Spielraum, in dem Frauen wie Artemisia Gentileschi oder Giovanna Garzoni künstlerisch agieren konnten? A...

Debunking the myth of the stark white Protestant church interior, this study explores the very objects and architectural additions that were in fac...

Last year (1925) the Olaus Petri Endowment greatly honoured the author by inviting him to deliver a few lectures on Origen at the University of Ups...

Hailing from the cultural realm of India, the mandala signifies in its original sense a sacred circle. It serves as a meditation aid and at the sam...

The first expert critical treatment of Mormon visual art, featuring over 200 high-quality color illustrations Nearly every major religion has a si...

Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates wer...

Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium seeks to reveal Christian understanding of the body and sacred space in th...