Christian Art. ([2021])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Christian Art. ([2021])
- Main Title:
- Christian Art
- Uniform Title:
- Lion Companion to Christian Art
- Further Information:
- Note: Michelle P. Brown.
- Authors:
- Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
- Contents:
- Introduction ; What is Christian Art?; 1. The Art of the Earliest Christians; Judaic and Graeco-Roman Roots; 2. In the Sign of the Cross; Constantine and the Entry of Christianity into the Social Mainstream; 3. Martyrs and Mosaics; The Early Churches of Italy; 4. The Christian Orient; The Christian Art of Palestine, Armenia, Georgia and Syria; 5. Out of Africa; The Art of the Churches of Coptic Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia; 6. The New Rome; Emperor Justinian and Early Byzantine Art; 7. The Art of Orthodoxy; Byzantium and the Iconic Tradition; Icons: An Icon Writer’s Perspective (Revd Regan O’Callaghan); 8. The Rise of Islam; Islam and Christian Art; Christian Art in Muslim Contexts (Professor Sheila S. Blair and Professor Jonathan M. Bloom); 9. Barbarians!; Art and the Re-conversion of the West; 10. The Art of Imperialism; Art in the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires; ‘Words Passed Down’: Carolingian Pictures of Translation and Transmission (Professor Herbert L. Kessler); 11. Roods, Rituals and Christian Rule; Later Anglo-Saxon Art and the Benedictine Reform; 12. Romanesque; Pilgrims, Crusaders and European Style; Monastic Aesthetics and the Rise of Gothic Art (Professor Conrad Rudolph) 13. Gothic 14. Italian Gothic; Art and the Seeds of Rebirth; Christian Art and the Italian City-State (Dr Griffith Mann); 15. The Cultural Life of the Italian City-States; Humanists, Artists and the Rise of the Renaissance; Manuscripts, Humanism and Patronage in Renaissance Florence (Dr MarkIntroduction ; What is Christian Art?; 1. The Art of the Earliest Christians; Judaic and Graeco-Roman Roots; 2. In the Sign of the Cross; Constantine and the Entry of Christianity into the Social Mainstream; 3. Martyrs and Mosaics; The Early Churches of Italy; 4. The Christian Orient; The Christian Art of Palestine, Armenia, Georgia and Syria; 5. Out of Africa; The Art of the Churches of Coptic Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia; 6. The New Rome; Emperor Justinian and Early Byzantine Art; 7. The Art of Orthodoxy; Byzantium and the Iconic Tradition; Icons: An Icon Writer’s Perspective (Revd Regan O’Callaghan); 8. The Rise of Islam; Islam and Christian Art; Christian Art in Muslim Contexts (Professor Sheila S. Blair and Professor Jonathan M. Bloom); 9. Barbarians!; Art and the Re-conversion of the West; 10. The Art of Imperialism; Art in the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires; ‘Words Passed Down’: Carolingian Pictures of Translation and Transmission (Professor Herbert L. Kessler); 11. Roods, Rituals and Christian Rule; Later Anglo-Saxon Art and the Benedictine Reform; 12. Romanesque; Pilgrims, Crusaders and European Style; Monastic Aesthetics and the Rise of Gothic Art (Professor Conrad Rudolph) 13. Gothic 14. Italian Gothic; Art and the Seeds of Rebirth; Christian Art and the Italian City-State (Dr Griffith Mann); 15. The Cultural Life of the Italian City-States; Humanists, Artists and the Rise of the Renaissance; Manuscripts, Humanism and Patronage in Renaissance Florence (Dr Mark Evans); 16. The Italian High Renaissance; Madonnas, Popes and Princes; Brazen Images and Sounding Brass: The Significance and Use of Bronze in Christian Contexts (Dr Victoria Avery); 17. The Northern Renaissance; Merchants and Mysteries; 18. Keeping Your Head in Times of Change; Reformation, Resistance and the Rise of Protestantism; The Dispute on Images During the Reformation and Counter-Reformation (Professor Iole Carlettini); 19. Venice the Serene; Mercantile Meditation and the Cost of Sublime Art; From Counter-Reformation to Baroque: Aspects of the Arts in Rome (Professor Daniela Gallavotti Cavallero); 20. Protestantism and the Catholic Counter-Reformation; Domestic Piety, Mannerism and the Theatricality of the Baroque; Rubens and the Theatre of the Counter-Reformation: Biblical Imagery made Flesh (Professor Michelle P. Brown); 21. The Age of Enlightenment; Rationalism, Neo-Classicism and the New Imperialism; The Rise of the Study of the History of Christian Art (Professor Nancy Netzer); 22. Mysticism and Romanticism Reborn; Blake, the Ancients and the Art of Nonconformity; Permission, Prohibition, Patronage and Methodism: A Denomination Engages with Art (Dr Peter Forsaith); 23. Faith and the Origins of North American Art; A New Eden; Religious Folk Art (Professor Virginia Raguin); 24. Industrial Innovation, Aesthetic Nostalgia; Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Rediscovery of Medievalism; 25. Art for a New Age; The Realists, Impressionists and Symbolists; 26. The Shock of the New; Mechanization, Expressionism, Spiritual Realism and the Origins of Abstraction; Jewish Artists, Christian Themes (Emily D. Bilski); 27. The Impact of Modernity; Destruction, Creation, Abstraction; 28. The Impact of the Second World War29. The Journey Continues; Earth Art: Landscape, Art and Eco-Theology; 30. Innovation and Tradition; Searching for the Spiritual in Contemporary Art; The Scribe Speaks: Making the St John’s Bible (Donald Jackson); 31. Quo Vadis?; Where do we go from here?; Christianity and Contemporary Art in North America: The CIVA Case Study (Dr James Romaine); 32. Some Concluding Thoughts; References; Glossary; ; … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Oxford, England : Lion Hudson
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 704.9/482
Christian art and symbolism
Christian art and symbolism
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 1912552566
9781912552566 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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