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Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art by Jeffrey Spier 2007 Ex-Library
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300116837
ISBN-13
9780300116830
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60072558
Product Key Features
Book Title
Picturing the Bibles : the Earliest Christian Art
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
General, Subjects & Themes / Religious
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
74.6 Oz
Item Length
12.2 in
Item Width
9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-008873
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
" Picturing the Bible presents a rich account of the strange transformation in the visual tradition of what have become, by now, familiar biblical stories."--Cherie Woodworth, Church History, " Picturing the Bible presents a rich account of the strange transformation in the visual tradition of what have become, by now, familiar biblical stories."-Cherie Woodworth, Church History, "Picturing the Biblepresents a rich account of the strange transformation in the visual tradition of what have become, by now, familiar biblical stories."--Cherie Woodworth,Church History
Dewey Decimal
704.9/48209015
Synopsis
"Picturing the Bible" explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating "graven images"? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated book takes up such questions, revealing the story of how Christian art began through insights from recent discoveries. Leading experts explore topics ranging from Jewish art in the Greco-Roman period and the influence of Constantine, to the development of church decoration and the meaning of illustrated Bibles. Throughout we see the distinctive pictorial selection of Early Christians, who at first depicted Old Testament figures--Abraham and Isaac, Jonah, and Daniel--and did not invent new images until over a century later. The special meanings attached to old images and new ones like the fish, anchor, and Good Shepherd all come to life in these pages. The essays are complemented by extensive new archaeological research on a range of more than one hundred objects, drawn from major museums of America and Europe. Frescoes, marble sculpture and sarcophagi, silver vessels and reliquaries, carved ivories, decorated crosses, and illuminated Bibles are illustrated in new color photographs, allowing the reader an unprecedented encounter with Early Christian art., Picturing the Bible explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating "graven images"? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated book takes up such questions, revealing the story of how Christian art began through insights from recent discoveries. Leading experts explore topics ranging from Jewish art in the Greco-Roman period and the influence of Constantine, to the development of church decoration and the meaning of illustrated Bibles. Throughout we see the distinctive pictorial selection of Early Christians, who at first depicted Old Testament figures--Abraham and Isaac, Jonah, and Daniel--and did not invent new images until over a century later. The special meanings attached to old images and new ones like the fish, anchor, and Good Shepherd all come to life in these pages. The essays are complemented by extensive new archaeological research on a range of more than one hundred objects, drawn from major museums of America and Europe. Frescoes, marble sculpture and sarcophagi, silver vessels and reliquaries, carved ivories, decorated crosses, and illuminated Bibles are illustrated in new color photographs, allowing the reader an unprecedented encounter with Early Christian art.
LC Classification Number
N7832.P53 2007
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