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Painting the Word Christian Pictures and Their Meanings

By John Drury

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press National Gallery
Year
1999
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33268775 bytes)
Pages
\228
Time added
2016-10-12 11:10:34

Description

Christianity is another country, says John Drury, and we need to familiarize ourselves with it in order to understand the universal meaning of its art. In this beautifully written book, Drury, an Anglican priest and theologian, looks at religious paintings through the ages and presents them to us in a fresh way-as works filled with passion, stones and meaning. They become the poetry of such eternal human concerns as birth, death, sacrifice, love and moral goodness and failure.

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