The Word made Visible in the Painted Image - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Word made Visible in the Painted Image write by Stephen Miller. This book was released on 2015-11-25. The Word made Visible in the Painted Image available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ. While the Incarnation, in a very real way, legitimised the idea of the portrayal of God in human form (as Jesus Christ), problems remained as to how this might be achieved and whether it should be restricted to the second person of the Holy Trinity. This book looks at the creation of pictorial space and the presentation of the image – paying special attention to schemes of perspective, as a way to better describe reality, as well as to considerations of proportion through such geometric methodology as the Golden Section and dynamic root-rectangles (based on certain ‘perfect’ or divine ratios) to balance and harmonise form. The Word Made Visible in the Painted Image also explores the theological theme of threshold and liminal space, describes how themes such as the Incarnation and Revelation were represented, and looks at the symbolism employed in so doing. It shows how such themes were captured, set in space and communicated in the painted image. This study is necessarily interdisciplinary, combining the subject areas of art history and theory, theology, biblical study, philosophy, aesthetics, physics, metaphysics, mathematics, geometry, optics, physiology, psychology, and sociology, in greater and lesser degrees. Few books take such an interdisciplinary stance on art, theology, science and related disciplines to this extent.
Letter to Artists
Letter to Artists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letter to Artists write by John Paul II. This book was released on 1999. Letter to Artists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meeting House Essays in a series of papers reflecting on the mystery, beauty and practicalities of the place of worship. This popular series was begun in 1991, and each resource focuses on a particular aspect of space, design or materials and how they relate to the liturgy.
The Book of Angels
The Book of Angels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Angels write by Stephen Miller. This book was released on 2019-06-04. The Book of Angels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Both collectively and individually we have a deep and abiding fascination with angels. This book explores depictions of angels in the visual arts and in scripture and associated apocryphal and mystical writings, specifically in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and Islamic, Zoroastrian and other ancient and latter-day accounts. It examines the visual clues, artistic conventions and attributes that have been set down to help us to recognise angels in their particular roles and functions. Certain writings have had a particularly influential bearing on our understanding of angels. This text focuses on the hierarchies and orders proposed by the likes of Pseudo-Dionysius, St. Thomas Aquinas and others. In a new age of fascination with the metaphysical and supernatural (in film, television, popular mythology and literature), are we cementing or losing our connection with the authentic meaning and purpose that such vibrant and energised beings bring to our table? This book contains more than 30 illustrations in a central colour plates section. It also includes a useful glossary of terms and will prove a rich and enduring reference resource for libraries, as well as a stimulating go-to source for those interested in the world of angels and how human sensibilities and imaginative reasoning have enriched the subject, as a starting point for interreligious dialogue.
The Painting of Stephen Cook
The Painting of Stephen Cook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Painting of Stephen Cook write by Stephen Miller. This book was released on 2023-07-11. The Painting of Stephen Cook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This beautifully illustrated monograph, including more than 50 colour plates of the artist’s work—most of which appear here for the first time—is the first critical study of the work of the artist Stephen Cook (born 1952), and will serve as both an introduction to, and analysis of, his output in the context of a tradition of figurative art in post-war Britain. The scrutiny of the subjects of these paintings point to a representation of a reality outside of the flux of things and of our everyday experience, albeit one that is derived from the immediately recognisable natural world. This is achieved not only through a method of close observation, but through the rigour of the application of that observation.
Forbidden Oracles?
Forbidden Oracles? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forbidden Oracles? write by AnneMarie Luijendijk. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Forbidden Oracles? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book centers on The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, a previously unknown text preserved in a fifth- or sixth-century Coptic miniature codex. It presents the first critical edition and translation of this new text. My book is also a project about religious praxis and authority, as I situate the manuscript within the context of practices of and debates around divination in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Preface, p. [vii].
