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Overview"""Picturing the Bible"" explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating 'graven images'? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated book takes up such questions, revealing the story of how Christian art began through insights from recent discoveries. Leading experts explore topics ranging from Jewish art in the Greco-Roman period and the influence of Constantine, to the development of church decoration and the meaning of illustrated Bibles. Throughout we see the distinctive pictorial selection of Early Christians, who at first depicted Old Testament figures - Abraham and Isaac, Jonah, and Daniel - and did not invent new images until over a century later. The special meanings attached to old images and new ones like the fish, anchor, and Good Shepherd all come to life in these pages. The essays are complemented by extensive new archaeological research on a range of more than one hundred objects, drawn from major museums of America and Europe. Frescoes, marble sculpture and sarcophagi, silver vessels and reliquaries, carved ivories, decorated crosses, and illuminated Bibles are illustrated in new colour photographs, allowing the reader an unprecedented encounter with Early Christian art." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey Spier , Herbert L. Kessler , Steven Fine , Robin Margaret JensenPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 30.50cm Weight: 2.118kg ISBN: 9780300116830ISBN 10: 0300116837 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 13 December 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsPicturing the Bible presents a rich account of the strange transformation in the visual tradition of what have become, by now, familiar biblical stories. --Cherie Woodworth, Church History --Cherie Woodworth Church History Picturing the Bible presents a rich account of the strange transformation in the visual tradition of what have become, by now, familiar biblical stories. --;i>Church History --Cherie Woodworth Church History Author InformationJeffrey Spier is adjunct professor of classics at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Herbert L. Kessler is professor of the history of art at Johns Hopkins University. Steven Fine is Jewish Foundation Professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University. Robin M. Jensen is Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History of Christian Worship and Art at Vanderbilt University. Johannes G. Deckers is professor at the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich. Mary Charles-Murray is professor of theology at the University of Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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