Saints In Art

Author : Rosa Giorgi
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367177
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints in Art written by Rosa Giorgi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Agatha to Zeno, this book presents the images and attributes of more than one hundred saints, those most frequently encountered in sacred art, history and legend, tradition and devotional literature. Lavishly illustrated, this book introduces the saints with their identifying attributes, notes on their lives and martyrdoms, and visual references that make it easy to identify their characters and legends and the forms of worship for each."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Fernando Lanzi
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814629709
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Their Symbols written by Fernando Lanzi and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images that tell the story of salvation illustrate saints in various scenes. They are often depicted by an emblem or icon. It used to be that we knew enough about the saints to recognize them in images or artworks without much trouble, but it is becoming a struggle. understanding the saints. This text explains such things as why so many of the saints appear in images with Jesus and the Virgin Mary, yet remain unnamed, which symbols are associated with each saint, and what their roles were in Christian salvation. work of popular religious culture and anthropology.

Author : James S. Griffith
Publisher : Southwest Center
ISBN 13 : 0816539618
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints, Statues, and Stories written by James S. Griffith and published by Southwest Center. This book was released on 2019 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book considers the history and aesthetics of religious artwork in official and traditional Catholic contexts, examining the role that this religious art plays in the northwestern state of Sonora, Mexico"--

Author : Nicholas Fox Weber
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0804154023
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patron Saints written by Nicholas Fox Weber and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively work of cultural history tells the stories of five young art patrons who, in the last 1920s and 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America. A combination of wealth, Harvard education privilege, and family connections enabled Lincoln Kirstein, Edward M. M. Warburg, Agnes Mongan, James Thrall Soby, and A. Everett (Chick) Austin, Jr., to introduce the work of Picasso, Balanchine, Calder, and other important artists to the United States.

Author : Rosa Giorgi
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810954991
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints written by Rosa Giorgi and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated text portrays more than 375 Catholic saints, arranged by the days of the year on which each beatified figure is honoured. Up to three saints have been chosen for each day of the year, with a brief accompanying description of each.

Author : James Caswell
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints & Sinners written by James Caswell and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 350 beautiful color photographs depict 18th to mid-20th century Mexican devotional art, including danced masks, devils and angels, santos, milagritos, retablos, and ex-votos. They were used in religious ceremonies at home and church, and include wood carvings and items of clay, stone, metal and paper. Seven essays cover the history and meaning of the works.

Author : Larry Frank
Publisher : Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Kingdom of the Saints written by Larry Frank and published by Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates 250 works of art extending back to the earliest worked points of the Paleo-Indian Clovis people through works by twentieth-century artists.

Author : Clara Erskine Clement Waters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints in Art written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Emma Tabor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saints in Art written by Margaret Emma Tabor and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas J. Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santos and Saints written by Thomas J. Steele and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santos and Saints is a new book, though the title has been around for over twenty years. This new edition provides greater detail and newly available information to illustrate the santero's art and to describe the tradition roles of santos in both religious and secular life. Santos and Saints has served for two decades as the best available guide to the religious folk art of New Mexico. In its new edition, it has become even more valuable to scholars and general readers alike.