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A Handbook of Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints As Illustrated in Art by: Clara Erskine Clement, Editor: Katherine Eleanor Conway

A Handbook of Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints As Illustrated in Art
by: Clara Erskine Clement, Editor: Katherine Eleanor Conway

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd Ed., 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather over marbled boards, ribbed spine with gilt lettering. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Marbled endpapers with gilt pattern. Black and white plates and illustrations. 349 pages. Front cover starting to split from spine but still holding. Mild edgewear to covers, bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean copy.

Record # 378885

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Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguisticby: Croce, Benedetto, Douglas Ainslie (Translation)

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
by: Croce, Benedetto, Douglas Ainslie (Translation)

Hardcover. London, England, Macmillan and Co. , 2nd Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some chipping to edges of boards. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Spine straight. Benedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controversial, but enduring.

Record # 99158

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Angleterre Romane 1by: Musset, Lucien

Angleterre Romane 1
by: Musset, Lucien

Hardcover. Paris, Zodiaque, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages plus index. Color, b&w gravure photographs, plans of churches, cathedrals, abbeys and monasteries in England. Text in French. Ribbon marker.

Record # 403693

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Art esoterique de L'Himalaya - Catalogue de la donation Lionel Fournierby: Beguin, Gilles

Art esoterique de L'Himalaya - Catalogue de la donation Lionel Fournier
by: Beguin, Gilles

Softcover. Paris, Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. French text only. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with beautiful full color and black & white examples of religious art and artifacts of Tibet and Nepal. Slight toning to page edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612731

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Blasphemy: Art That Offendsby: Plate, S. Brent

Blasphemy: Art That Offends
by: Plate, S. Brent

Hardcover. Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 189 pages. Blasphemy: Art that Offends is a prescient examination of the perpetually troubled, often explosive relationship between religion, politics and art. This book draws on a rich wealth of visual material, tracing both the history of blasphemy as a concept and re-positioning the term in the twenty-first century. Questions of censorship and freedom of expression are today extremely volatile, a fact evinced by the recent international backlash against the Danish newspaper Islamic caricatures and the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh following the release of his notorious Submission. Blasphemy: Art that Offends provides a vital vantage point from which to view the complicated, compelling interrelations between religion, politics and the visual arts.

Record # 351456

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Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumbby: Crumb, R.

Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
by: Crumb, R.

Hardcover. New York , W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w art throughout by Crumb. Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that we would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible's language, "a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions," that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible. As Crumb writes in his introduction, "the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself." Crumb's Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses.

Record # 362149

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Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumbby: Crumb, R.

Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
by: Crumb, R.

Hardcover. New York , W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w art throughout by Crumb. Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that we would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible's language, "a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions," that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible. As Crumb writes in his introduction, "the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself." Crumb's Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses.

Record # 351290

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Brother Sabastian At Largeby: Day, Chon

Brother Sabastian At Large
by: Day, Chon

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages, b&w cartoons by Chon Day. The third collection of Brother Sebastian cartoons which ran in Look Magazine. Dust jacket with light edge wear, price clipped. Clean copy.

Record # 415477

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Brother Sabastian Carries Onby: Day, Chon

Brother Sabastian Carries On
by: Day, Chon

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages, b&w cartoons by Chon Day. The second collection of Brother Sebastian cartoons which ran in Look Magazine. Dust jacket with light edge wear, price clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 415476

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Brother Sabastianby: Day, Chon

Brother Sabastian
by: Day, Chon

Hardcover. New York, Hanover House, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, b&w cartoons by Chon Day. The first collection of Brother Sebastian cartoons which ran in Look Magazine. Dust jacket with light edge wear, price clipped. Clean.

Record # 415475

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Celtic Illuminative Art: In the Gospel Books of Durrow Lindisfarne and Kellsby: Robinson, Stanford F.H.

Celtic Illuminative Art: In the Gospel Books of Durrow Lindisfarne and Kells
by: Robinson, Stanford F.H.

Hardcover. Dublin, Hodges Figgis & Co., 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 106 pages, 51 plates, 6 in color. Large format, bound in green cloth covers with gilt lettering. Ex-library with usual stamping and residue to end papers, sticker to bottom of spine. Covers show corner wear, top of spine frayed with a one inch tear to cloth at top. Interior of book is clean and tight. Green of cloth spine faded.

Record # 405451

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Chagall in Jerusalemby: Amiel, Leon

Chagall in Jerusalem
by: Amiel, Leon

Hardcover. Israel/New York, Steimatzky/LeonAmiel, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, 50 color and 40 b&w plates. Includes color lithograph at front of book. Blue cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine, bright dust jacket.

Record # 405311

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Crafting Devotions: Tradition in Contemporary New Mexico Santosby: Kalb, Laurie Beth

Crafting Devotions: Tradition in Contemporary New Mexico Santos
by: Kalb, Laurie Beth

Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 2230207

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Devi: The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Artby: Dehejia, Vidya (Editor)

Devi: The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art
by: Dehejia, Vidya (Editor)

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Prestel, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Large oversized book. Devi, the Great Goddess of India is beautiful, beneficent, terrifying, all-powerful, and glorious. Ubiquitous in India's social and spiritual fabric, she has, over the millennia, been painted, sculpted, carved, and wrought from silver and bronze in a myriad of shapes and forms. Devi: The Great Goddess brings together one hundred and twenty of these diverse examples of Devi and a group of distinguished essayists who explore facets of Devi worship and tradition, including ritual, architecture, literature, history and contemporary issues such as feminism and gender politics. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 460375

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Early Christian & Byzantine Architectureby: Krautheimer, Richard

Early Christian & Byzantine Architecture
by: Krautheimer, Richard

Hardcover. London, Penguin Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 390 pages, 192 bw plates at rear plus line diagrams and maps. No slipcase.

Record # 374076

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English Churchyard Memorialsby: Burgess, Frederick

English Churchyard Memorials
by: Burgess, Frederick

Hardcover. London, Lutterworth Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages. Many b&w plates of sepulchral monuments across England. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 387266

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Eric Gill: Workmanby: Attwater, Donald

Eric Gill: Workman
by: Attwater, Donald

Hardcover. London, James Clarke & Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages, beige cloth covers. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine twisted slightly. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511961

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Facade of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard - It's Influence on French Sculpture, Theby: Stoddard, Whitney S.

Facade of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard - It's Influence on French Sculpture, The
by: Stoddard, Whitney S.

Hardcover. Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 340 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs, 2 fold-outs in rear. Dust jacket spine faded, light wear to corners, edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611834

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Face of Forgiveness, The: Salvation and Redemptionby: Coleman, A.D. (Foreword)

Face of Forgiveness, The: Salvation and Redemption
by: Coleman, A.D. (Foreword)

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. With sumptuous black-and-white photographs that recall the religious fervor of El Greco and the anguish of Francis Bacon, The Face of Forgiveness: Salvation and Redemption takes us inside evangelical meetings across the world and bears witness to the driving emotional faith of Christian revival, where emotion and love pours from the eyes and mouths of the faithful, praying and thanking the Lord.

Record # 353139

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Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium by: Safran, Linda (Editor)

Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
by: Safran, Linda (Editor)

Softcover. Universtity Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 280 pages. This easily accessible volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide a coherent introduction to Byzantine culture with a focus on the interconnected realms of art and religion. The eight participants have revised their lectures into chapters on Byzantine history, theology, icons and icon theory, church architecture, monumental painting, silver church furnishings, illustrated liturgical books, and pilgrimage. In addition to presenting current research on this range of topics, the chapters each contribute original scholarship from authors who are recognized experts in their respective fields. The Introduction, by Linda Safran, deals with views and definitions of Byzantium over the course of its long history and considers why that civilization deserves our attention today. Illustrated in b&w and color.

Record # 384493

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Hegel's Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art - Volume IIby: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Author), T. M. Knox (Translator)

Hegel's Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art - Volume II
by: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Author), T. M. Knox (Translator)

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Pages 613-1289. Volume 2 ONLY. The only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual experience, distinguishes the beauty of art and the beauty of nature, and examines artistic genius and originality. Part II surveys the history of art from the ancient world through to the end of the eighteenth century, probing the meaning and significance of major works. Part III (in the second volume) deals individually with architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature; a rich array of examples makes vivid his exposition of his theory. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386452

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How to teach your children about God: Without actually scaring them out of their witsby: Berenstain, Stan and Jan

How to teach your children about God: Without actually scaring them out of their wits
by: Berenstain, Stan and Jan

Hardcover. New York, McCall Publishing, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards illustrated in color. Unpaginated, b&w cartoon illustrations by the Berenstains. Clean copy.

Record # 415474

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Illustrations of the Book of Job, Invented & Engraved by William Blake/The Doctrine of Job, by S. Foster Damonby: Damon, S. Foster/ Blake, William

Illustrations of the Book of Job, Invented & Engraved by William Blake/The Doctrine of Job, by S. Foster Damon
by: Damon, S. Foster/ Blake, William

Hardcover. NY, United Book Guild, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pasted-on illustrated title. A handsome volume of 21 full-page black and white plates of Blake's illustrations, accompanied by 'The Doctrine of Job' by S. Foster Damon on facing pages. Mild musty smell. Name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 385668

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In a New Light: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert"by: Rutherglen, Susannah

In a New Light: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert"
by: Rutherglen, Susannah

Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrinkwrap. Over 140 color illustrations. Provides analysis of this single panel painting of St. Francis, rendered by Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini

Record # 353154

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In His Image: 60 Biblical paintings by James H. Daugherty (1887-1974)by: Daugherty, James H. (Artist), Robert R. McGruther (Forword), Henry M. Reed (A Reminiscence),

In His Image: 60 Biblical paintings by James H. Daugherty (1887-1974)
by: Daugherty, James H. (Artist), Robert R. McGruther (Forword), Henry M. Reed (A Reminiscence),

Softcover. Caldwell, NJ, Heritage Committee of The First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Soft cover. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Wrapper in beautiful condition. pages have just a touch of tanning around edges, otherwise clean and bright. Binding tight. In excellent shape. "Part of Daugherty's legacy to us is the sixty works in this book entitled 'In His Image'. These paintings were done in the period 1940 to 1960. They are executed in a powerful, emotional mood."

Record # 369349

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Japanese Temples: Sculpture, Paintings, Gardens, and Architectureby: Kidder, Jr., J. Edward

Japanese Temples: Sculpture, Paintings, Gardens, and Architecture
by: Kidder, Jr., J. Edward

Hardcover. Tokyo/Amsterdam, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha/Abrams, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 554 pages, illustrated with hundreds of color and b&w plates of Japanese temples from the year 552. Photographs by Tatsuzo Sato, Shihachi Fujimoto, Yoshio Watanabe, Ken Domon, Yasukichi Irie, Yukio Futagawa. Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha. Bibliography. Large folio, brown silk cloth with gilt lettering. In a edgeworn green slipcase. Heavy volume, extra charges for priority shipping.

Record # 401490

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Karmapa The Sacred Prophecy. Foreword by his holiness the Dalai Lamaby: Kagyu Thubten Choling

Karmapa The Sacred Prophecy. Foreword by his holiness the Dalai Lama
by: Kagyu Thubten Choling

Hardcover. Wappingers Falls NY, Kagyu Thubten Choling Publications Committee, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 120 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

Record # 379409

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Leonardo: The Last Supperby: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Leonardo: The Last Supper
by: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. Full color and black & white illustrations. Beautiful copy with light sunning to dust jacket spine, Clean, tight copy. The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers and Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a complete restoration. Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was chosen to head this twenty-year project, and Leonardo, The Last Supper is the official record of her remarkable effort. It first documents the cleaning and removal of the overpainting performed in the other attempts at restoration and then turns to Barcilon's meticulous additions in watercolor, which were based on Leonardo's preparatory drawings, early copies of the painting, and contemporary textual descriptions. This book presents full-scale reproductions of details from the fresco that clearly display and distinguish Leonardo's hand from that of the restorer. With nearly 400 sumptuous color reproductions, the most comprehensive technical documentation of the project by Barcilon, and an introductory essay by art historian and project codirector Pietro C. Marani that focuses on the history of the fresco,

Record # 458394

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Mother Teresa: A Life of Dedicationby: Rai, Raghu

Mother Teresa: A Life of Dedication
by: Rai, Raghu

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. A photographic tribute to the beatified founder of the Mission of Charity visually documents her work in the impoverished streets of Calcutta, offering numerous images of her daily spiritual commitment to fighting poverty, in a volume complemented by the author's remembrances of their nearly thirty-year relationship.

Record # 353108

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Mythic Image, Theby: Campbell, Joseph

Mythic Image, The
by: Campbell, Joseph

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 552 pages. Hardcover. Bollingen Series C. Dust jacket with light wear, tears to edges, price clipped. Full color and black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750015

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Peoples of Ireland, The - From Prehistory to Modern Timesby: de Paor, Liam

Peoples of Ireland, The - From Prehistory to Modern Times
by: de Paor, Liam

Softcover. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, First Thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout including maps, photographs. Bright front cover, sunfade to rear cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750501

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Pillars of the Almighty: Photographs by F-stop Fitzgerald, A Celebration of Cathedralsby: Follet, Ken, F-Stop Fitzgerald (Photography)

Pillars of the Almighty: Photographs by F-stop Fitzgerald, A Celebration of Cathedrals
by: Follet, Ken, F-Stop Fitzgerald (Photography)

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has a little bit of chipping at top of spine, patched with tape. Otherwise great. Clean and unmarked inside. Gilt endpapers.

Record # 5560074

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Pioneer Churchesby: Kalman, John De Visser (photographe), Harold

Pioneer Churches
by: Kalman, John De Visser (photographe), Harold

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a very good plus dust jacket. 192 pages. Color frontispiece, color photographs, illustrations, diagrams, bibliography, index. The dust jacket has very minor edgewear. A photographic look at some of the earlier churches built in North America.

Record # 804825

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Religious Art in France - The Twelfth Century - A Study of the Origins of Medieval Iconography - Bollingen Series XC-1by: Male, Emile

Religious Art in France - The Twelfth Century - A Study of the Origins of Medieval Iconography - Bollingen Series XC-1
by: Male, Emile

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 575 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Fading to dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611831

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Rembrandt's Religious Prints: The Feddersen Collection at the Snite Museum of Art by: Rosenberg, Charles M.

Rembrandt's Religious Prints: The Feddersen Collection at the Snite Museum of Art
by: Rosenberg, Charles M.

Hardcover. Indiana University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 475 pages. Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now preserved for the ages at the University of Notre Dame, are made widely available in a lavishly illustrated volume. Building on the contributions of earlier Rembrandt scholars, noted art historian Charles M. Rosenberg illuminates each of the 70 religious prints through detailed background information on the artist's career as well as the historical, religious, and artistic impulses informing their creation. Readers will enjoy an impression of the earliest work, The Circumcision (1625-26); the famous Hundred Guilder Print; the enigmatic eighth state of Christ Presented to the People; one of a handful of examples of the very rare final posthumous state of The Three Crosses; and an impression and counterproof of The Triumph of Mordecai. From the joyous epiphany of the coming of the Messiah to the anguish of the betrayal of a father (Jacob) by his children, from choirs of angels waiting to receive the Virgin into heaven to the dog who defecates in the road by an ancient inn (The Good Samaritan), Rembrandt's etchings offer a window into the nature of faith, aspiration, and human experience, ranging from the ecstatically divine to the worldly and mundane. Ultimately, these prints? modest, intimate, fragile objects?are great works of art which, like all masterpieces, reward us with fresh insights and discoveries at each new encounter. Clean copy.

Record # 387416

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Routes Romanes - 2: La Route aux Solitudesby: Oursel, Raymond

Routes Romanes - 2: La Route aux Solitudes
by: Oursel, Raymond

Hardcover. Paris, Zodiaque, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages plus index. Color, b&w gravure photographs, plans of churches, cathedrals, abbeys and monasteries in France. Text in French. Ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 403695

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Routes Romanes: 1- La Route aux Saintsby: Oursel, Raymond

Routes Romanes: 1- La Route aux Saints
by: Oursel, Raymond

Hardcover. Paris, Zodiaque, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 407 pages plus index. Color and b&w gravure plates, plans of medieval churches of France. French text. A clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 403692

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Saint Thomas Aquinas: Selections from his Works Made by George N. Shusterby: Aquinas, Saint Thomas

Saint Thomas Aquinas: Selections from his Works Made by George N. Shuster
by: Aquinas, Saint Thomas

Hardcover. Chatham UK, The Limited Editions Club, Ltd Ed, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed gray cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, slipcased. Illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No. 38 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Designed by Will Carter and printed by W & J Mackay & Company. Bright, clean copy with minor wear to slip case.

Record # 383390

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Thanka Painting of the Tsang-Pa Tradition of Tibetby: Sangpo, Phuntsok

Thanka Painting of the Tsang-Pa Tradition of Tibet
by: Sangpo, Phuntsok

Hardcover. New Delhi, privately printed/Pasang Wangdu, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages., profusely illustrated throughout in color and black and white painting schematics. Parallel text in English and Tibetan. Private printing. Ribbon marker, clean copy. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 382964

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The Big I Amby: Steadman, Ralph

The Big I Am
by: Steadman, Ralph

Hardcover. NY, Summit Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations through by Steadman. His take on the creation of the universe, man:- and, what we have done to the earth!

Record # 373502

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The Jerusalem Bibleby: Jones, Alexander (General Editor) Salvador Dali (Illust.)

The Jerusalem Bible
by: Jones, Alexander (General Editor) Salvador Dali (Illust.)

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1715 pages. Hardcover. color illustrations throughout, illustrated by Salvador Dali. Pages unmarked (including back pages intedend for recording of family information). 2 red ribbon book marks attached at spine. No slipcase. Marbled decorated endpapers. leather cover boards, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Gilt edges (slightly faded). Binding beautiful. Spine straight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99224

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The Rohan Master:A Book of Hoursby: Marcel Thomas [Editor]; Millard Meiss [Introduction];

The Rohan Master:A Book of Hours
by: Marcel Thomas [Editor]; Millard Meiss [Introduction];

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in gilt, in a black cardboard slipcase. Color illustrations throughout. This powerful and breathtakingly beautiful Book of Hours was designed in the fifteenth century by one of the greatest masters of expressionism in France at the time, and executed by him (together with members of his workshop) for a royal patron. A relatively unknown masterpiece, it emerged from artistic obscurity in 1904 to widespread acclaim and critical appreciation. As Millard Meiss points out in his Introduction: "The Rohan Master cared less about what people do than what they feel. . . .Whereas his great predecessors, the Boucicaut Master and the Limbourgs, excelled in the description of novel aspects of the natural world, he explored the realm of human feeling." Clean copy.

Record # 382074

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The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations by: Goldberg, Jonathan

The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations
by: Goldberg, Jonathan

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 267 pages. The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in this study, matter is always in motion, always differing from itself and yet always also made of the same stuff. From the pious Lucy Hutchinson's all but complete translation of the Roman epic poem to Margaret Cavendish's repudiation of atomism (but not of its fundamental problematic of sameness and difference), a central concern of this book is how a thoroughgoing materialism can be read alongside other strains in the thought of the early modern period, particularly Christianity. Although English literature is the book's main concern, it first contemplates relations between Lucretian matter and Pauline flesh by way of Tintoretto's painting The Conversion of St. Paul. Theoretical issues raised in the work of Agamben and Badiou, among others, lead to a chapter that takes up the role that Lucretius has played in theory, from Bergson and Marx to Foucault and Deleuze. Name on front fly leaf along with pencil notations.

Record # 386271

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Throne of Wisdom - Wood Sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France, Theby: Forsyth, Ilene H.

Throne of Wisdom - Wood Sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France, The
by: Forsyth, Ilene H.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 226 pages of text followed by section of corresponding black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 611842

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Ultimate Todai-ji - Incomparable Masterworks from Nara's Great Eastern Temple - Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan - April 20-July 7, 2002by: Nara National Museum

Ultimate Todai-ji - Incomparable Masterworks from Nara's Great Eastern Temple - Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan - April 20-July 7, 2002
by: Nara National Museum

Softcover. Nara, Nara National Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Full color photographs. Primary language of catalog is Japanese - Foreword and Exhibition Checklist in English. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613715

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Valley of the Craftsmen: A Pictorial History: Scottish Rite Freemasonry in America's Southern Jurisdiction, 1801-2001by: William L. Fox (Editor)

Valley of the Craftsmen: A Pictorial History: Scottish Rite Freemasonry in America's Southern Jurisdiction, 1801-2001
by: William L. Fox (Editor)

Hardcover. University of South Carolina Press, Supreme Council, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. " ...a fascinating journey through the history of Scottish Rite in America. This comprehensive pictorial history provides valuable insights into the critical role masons have played throughout our nation's history." b/w, sepia, & color plates throughout. In Valley of the Craftsmen, the story of "higher degree" Freemasonry is depicted through portraits, official papers, material objects, photographs, buildings, and stagecraft. Featuring many previously unpublished images, Valley of the Craftsmen begins with rare illustrations of the English and French philosophical sources that were projected upon an American landscape vitalized and transformed by the concept of fraternity. The story is framed by American popular culture and the serious private effort of individual men in small towns and expansive cities who were intent on developing a moral life in service to their communities. Clean copy.

Record # 371651

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Venus in Sackcloth: The Magdelen's Origins and Metamorphosesby: Malvern, Marjorie M.

Venus in Sackcloth: The Magdelen's Origins and Metamorphoses
by: Malvern, Marjorie M.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 219 pages, b&w illustrations.Prostitute, saint, penitent, woman taken in adultery, the Magdalen--a Venus in sackcloth----has evolved through two thou-sand years of iconography and literature little understood, this original and pro-vocative study shows. The complex intermingling of the Mag-dalen myth in religion and culture pro-vides a fascinating chapter in the history of ideas. This important new book there-fore not only fills a gap in religious and humanistic studies but also deepens our understanding of how the ideas implanted in the Magdalen figure were sustained over the years--from her origins in Scrip-ture and Apocrypha to rock opera in our time.

Record # 396761

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Wat Khongkharam: Mural Paintings of Thailand Seriesby: n/a

Wat Khongkharam: Mural Paintings of Thailand Series
by: n/a

Hardcover. Bangkok, Muang Boran Publishing House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Navy blue cover boards (excellent), gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked, clean. Dust jacket unclipped, has some slight shelfwear. In very good, colorful condition. Text in Thai and English. 94 pages of color photographs and 7 pages of b/w photographs of 14th-18th century mural paintings at this revered site.

Record # 99012

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Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Lawby: Thompson, E. P.

Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
by: Thompson, E. P.

Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 234 pages, b&w plates. Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the ?Antichrist "embodied by contemporary society?to ?witness against the beast." Clean copy.

Record # 386829

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Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and is Icons by: Robin Cormack

Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and is Icons
by: Robin Cormack

Hardcover. London, George Philip, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 270 pages, illustrated in b&w. Writing in Gold is a bold and challenging statement about the importance of the visual arts in a largely illiterate society. Exploring the height of Byzantine society from the 6th to the 12th centuries through a survey of the period's surviving paintings, mosaics, and metalware, the book shows how these art objects molded attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. The examples chosen cover the full range of Byzantine society from the sophisticated urban environment of Constantinople, where emperors used art to maintain loyalty and support for the system, to the life of a small community on Cyprus, where a recluse used art to glorify himself to his disciples. Written in a lively style, and drawing on new and original material throughout, Writing in Gold illuminates an intriguing period in art history. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384486

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