The Art of Faith: A Guide to Understanding Christian Images The Art of Faith outlines sacred art from early Christianity through the Baroque, with intriguing information, stories, quotes, sketches, and examples.
| TITLE | : | The Art of Faith: A Guide to Understanding Christian Images |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.65 (324 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1557256306 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 304 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2012-07-01 |
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The Art of Faith outlines sacred art from early Christianity through the Baroque, with intriguing information, stories, quotes, sketches, and examples.
Editorial : From the Back Cover
Have you stood in front of a painting and thought, What does this mean?
The Art of Faith answers this question again and again, with insight, wit, and verve, providing a thorough reference to Christian art through the centuries. Practical and easy to read, this book unfolds the ancient world of Christian images for believers who want to enrich their faith, college students studying art history, and travelers to religious sites. With this book in hand, you can visit museums, churches, or other sacred places and identify a work of art’s style and meaning. Or even explore the signs and symbols of your local church.Whatever your relationship to art or Christianity, open this book when you’re curious about a painting, sculpture, symbol, or other sacred work. It will answer your questio
The photos were obviously cropped after he wrote the captions for them, and no one took the trouble to review them to see if they still made sense (some of them don't). I've bought copies for all my staff!. These include Silver Buffalos, US Eagle, and Canadian Maple
7. While being as good or better than David Mamet is not a necessary objective in itself, a hell of a task at that, bringing to the page the smooth articulate thoughts, observations and understanding he does in a piece like The Cabin is.
Most of these pieces, which are less essays and more pops, or a pastiche of his past/family/history, portraits of Chicago, New York, London, France and Vermont, gun culture, radio voices, golf, jobs and hobbies.
In many respects these are lite fare. (A shotgun approach to writing one song a week.) I like the idea. Everything from using a vectorscope to storyboarding, non-linear
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