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Author : Chiara Franceschini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503593461
Author : Leslie G. Kelen,David Sucec
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011668246
Sixty color and 15 bandw photographs utilize natural light and show Utah's prehistoric rock art images in the context of the surrounding canyons. The photos are presented with brief captions, and with the words of Ute, Paiute, Hopi, and Northwest Shoshone individuals who describe the what the art means to them personally. An introductory essay discusses the various artistic styles of native peopls of this region over a period of 8,000 years. N. Scott Momaday supplied the foreword. A lovely book. No index or references. 10x11" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gabriele Paleotti
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606061169
In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during a time when the Church feared rampant abuse in the arts. Paleotti's 'Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images' argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter's responsibility to his spectators.
Author : John Stangle,Jeanine Kavanaugh
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781365824616
Enter into an ancient method of meditation and prayer using sacred icons and sacred images as has been done since the beginning of the Christian Church. Icons and sacred images are said to be, -windows into heaven-.
Author : John Stangle
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365825903
Author : Gary Vikan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822033557224
In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and relics, and on objects revealing of the world of pilgrimage, the early cult of saints, and marriage. He contextualizes these familiar categories of object in the patterns of belief and ritual extracted from contemporary texts and the objects themselves, in order to understand their meaning within the everyday lives of those by whom and for whom they were made. The studies give a nuanced delineation of the inherently ambiguous boundary between conventional religion and magic, noting repeatedly those instances wherein the two are invoked in the same breath (and by way of the same art object), toward the same end. From this historically constructed matrix of art, belief, and ritual, the author derives an anthropologically defined paradigm of charisma and pilgrimage (applied in one essay, as an intriguing parallel, to deconstructing the world of a contemporary secular "saint," Elvis Presley).
Author : Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119325
A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art
Author : Christopher Deacy,Elisabeth Arweck
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0754665275
In recent years, there has been growing awareness across a range of academic disciplines of the value of exploring issues of religion and the sacred in relation to cultures of everyday life. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age offers inter-di
Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520243064
David Morgan investigates the key aspects of vision & imagery in a variety of religious traditions, including the functions of religious images & the tools that viewers use to interpret them.
Author : Abigail Brundin,Deborah Howard,Mary Laven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192548474
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the many ways in which religion infused daily life within the household. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as miracles and visions, frequently took place at home amid the joys and trials of domestic life — from childbirth and marriage to sickness and death. Breaking free from the usual focus on Venice, Florence, and Rome, The Sacred Home investigates practices of piety across the Italian peninsula, with particular attention paid to the city of Naples, the Marche, and the Venetian mainland. It also looks beyond the elite to consider artisanal and lower-status households, and reveals gender and age as factors that powerfully conditioned religious experience. Recovering a host of lost voices and compelling narratives at the intersection between the divine and the everyday, The Sacred Home offers unprecedented glimpses through the keyhole into the spiritual lives of Renaissance Italians.
Author : Cynthia O. Ho,Kathleen W. Peters,John McClain
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781950192779
Overlooking Lago di Orta in the foothills of the Northern Italian Alps, the Renaissance-era Sacro Monte di Orta (a UNESCO World Heritage site) is spectacle and hagiography, theme park and treatise. Sacro Monte di Orta is a sacred mountain complex that extolls the life of St. Francis of Assisi through fresco, statuary, and built environment. Descending from the vision of the 16th-century Archbishop Carlo Borromeo, the design and execution of the chapels express the Catholic Church's desire to define, or, perhaps redefine itself for a transforming Christian diaspora. And in the struggle to provide a spiritual and geographical front against the spread of Protestantism into the Italian peninsula, the Catholic Church mustered the most powerful weapon it had: the widely popular native Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.Sacred Views of Saint Francis: The Sacro Monte di Orta examines this important pilgrimage site where Francis is embraced as a ne plus ultra saint. The book delves into a pivotal moment in the life of the Catholic Church as revealed through the artistic program of the Sacro Monte's twenty-one chapels, providing a nuanced understanding of the role the site played in the Counter-Reformation.The Sacro Monte di Orta was, in its way, a new hagiographical text vital to post-Tridentine Italy. Sacred Views provides research and analysis of this popular, yet critically neglected Franciscan devotional site. Sacred Views is the first significant scholarly work on the Sacro Monte di Orta in English and one of the very few full-length treatments in any language. It includes a catalogue of artists, over one hundred photographs, maps, short essays on each chapel, and longer essays that examine some of the most significant chapels in greater detail.
Author : Michael Edward Moore
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813218779
Drawing on the records of nearly 100 bishops' councils spanning the centuries, alongside royal law, edicts, and capitularies of the same period, this study details how royal law and the very character of kingship among the Franks were profoundly affected by episcopal traditions of law and social order.
Author : Jorge Tomás García,Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000574180
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which the form and meaning of images are modified and adapted for a new context is defined by a large number of spiritual, religious, artistic, geographical or historical circumstances. This book provides a defined theoretical framework for these symbolic and material alterations based on the concept of iconotropy; that is, the way in which images change and/or alter their meaning. Iconotropy is a key concept in religious history, particularly for periods in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. In addition, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images. Numerous accounts from antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture and religious history.
Author : Janice Leoshko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351550307
In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance of Buddhism in India's past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling's account and those of other western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying nineteenth-century studies of Buddhist art in India. In the absence of written records, the first explorations of Buddhist sites were often guided by accounts of Chinese pilgrims. They had journeyed to India more than a thousand years earlier in search of sacred traces of the Buddha, the places where he lived, obtained enlightenment, taught and finally passed into nirvana. The British explorers, however, had other interests besides the religion itself. They were motivated by concerns tied to the growing British control of the subcontinent. Building on earlier interventions, Janice Leoshko examines this history of nineteenth-century exploration in order to illuminate how early concerns shaped the way Buddhist art has been studied in the West and presented in its museums.
Author : Jennifer Baldwin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498531245
Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion” and “body” through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript argues that all human interaction and practice, including religious praxis, engages “body” through at least one of the human senses (touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight, kinestics/proprioception). Unfortunately, body—and, more specifically and ironically, sensation—is eclipsed in contemporary academic scholarship that is inherently bent toward the realm of theory and ideas. This is unfortunate because it neglects bodies, physical or communal, as the repository and generator of culturally conditioned ideas and theory. It is ironic because all knowledge transmission minimally requires several senses including sight, touch, and hearing. Sensing Sacred is organized into two parts. The first section devotes a chapter to each human sense as an avenue of accessing religious experience; while the second section explores religious practices as they specifically focus on one or more senses. The overarching aim of the volume is to explicitly highlight each sense and utilize the theoretical lenses of practical theology to bring to vivid life the connections between essential sensation and religious thinking and practice.
