"This remarkable text is broad in scope, providing a magnificent overview of medieval painting, sculpture, and architecture--in Italy, Byzantium, Germany, and France from the 4th to the 14th centuries--including Early Christian, Byzantine, Pre-Romanesque Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic art. It explores familiar masterpieces such as the Bayeux Tapestry, the Book of Kells, Giotto's frescoes, and many less famil ..."
" The only comprehensive volume available for the study of Northern Renaissance Art, this paperback presents stylistic and iconographical themes, art historical scholarship, and valuable analyses for today's learners. Its coverage and color capture the authors' lasting excitement for the period and its artists. A three-part organization covers international currents in the Fourteen Century, Fifteenth-Century Innovations, and Renaissa ..."
"Describes the times in which the art was created as well as the issues of patronage, function, and ultimately, the public’s reception of the art as it was produced. Providing a magnificent overview of medieval painting, sculpture, and architecture–in Italy, Byzantium, Germany, and France from the 4th to the 14th centuries–including Early Christian, Byzantine, Pre-Romanesque Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic ar ..."
" The only comprehensive volume available for the study of Northern Renaissance Art, this paperback presents stylistic and iconographical themes, art historical scholarship, and valuable analyses for today's learners. Its coverage and color capture the authors' lasting excitement for the period and its artists. A three-part organization covers international currents in the Fourteen Century, Fifteenth-Century Innovations, and Renaissa ..."
"This book was published by North Park University in conjunction with an exhibition by the same title at the Visual Arts Center of the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Both the exhibition and the book are retrospective in nature, presenting art by Tim Lowly from the last 27 years, focusing on work related to a single subject: Tim's daughter Temma. As a newborn infant, Temma had a cardiac arrest, and the ensuing brain dam ..."
"This interdisciplinary and international collection explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors ask about the future of viable communities and democratic cultures in a postmodern world, looking for clues in artistic practices and institutions and their impact on how people create history and interpret texts. The collection shows that the arts are central to struggles over the shape of society ..."
"Headed by authors Jean Robertson and Deborah Hutton, this community of scholars cohered around the shared goal of bringing multiple perspectives to a worldwide narrative."
Stirring the World German Printimaking in the Age of Luther by HenryLuttikhuizen 219 Pages, Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0-692-93479-1, ISBN: 0-692-93479-0
"This collection of essays explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors examine the future of viable communities and democratic cultures in a postmodern world. They look at artistic practices and institutions, and how the arts affect the way history is written and interpreted. The book argues that the arts are central to struggles over how society will be shaped in the new millennium."
""An extensively illustrated book with an introductory essay describing the place of sculpture in the history of Christianity and fifty-two catalog entries addressing particular sculptures of Jesus Christ, chronologically ordered from the ..."
Medieval Art(1st Edition) Painting Sculpture, Architecture 4th thru 14th Century by James C. Snyder, Larry Silver, HenryLuttikhuizen Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 1988 by Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-573494-0, ISBN: 0-13-573494-0
"A study of the arts of the church from the early Christian basilica, the Byzantine domed churches, to the Gothic cathedral. Concentrates on the arts of Italy,Byzantium,Germany,and France from the 4th century to the late Gothic period. The main emphasis is on the continuities as well as the changes in traditions of architecture, narrative arts and iconic presentations."
" The only comprehensive volume available for the study of Northern Renaissance Art, this paperback presents stylistic and iconographical themes, art historical scholarship, and valuable analyses for today's learners. Its coverage and color capture the authors' lasting excitement for the period and its artists. A three-part organization covers international currents in the Fourteen Century, Fifteenth-Century Innovations, and Renaissa ..."
"Produced in honor of Calvin G. Seerveld, this volume highlights Seerveld's legacy as a scholar, teacher, and cultural leader even as it breaks new ground in the fields of cultural theory and aesthetics. The introduction discusses the importance of Seerveld's contributions to the study of the arts and culture, summarizes the essays in this collection, and relates them to themes in Seerveld's work. The volume's fourteen essays extend Seer ..."