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Title: Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meanings by John Drury ISBN: 0-300-07777-7 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: sharing an artists vision
Comment: John Drury is an art historian who uses his vocation as a priest to explain the subtlety of meaning that lies hidden in the symbolism of religious paintings in London's National Gallery.
Anyone how has looked at such a painting but not "seen" it, would do well to read this wonderful book and share the insights that the author offers. Paintings that I would have passed by with scarcely a second glance, are revealed within a context of their time, with reference to their history, the world view of the artist, the common and uncommon symbolism employed and much else besides.
It gives the possibility of sharing a visual language that we have lost and enables us to understand what it is about a picture that we sense is great, without comprehending why that might be.
It is hard to think that anyone who has ever visited an art gallery could not profit from reading this book and has certainly given me the enthusiasm to go and look at the pictures for myself.
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly outstanding guide to Christian paintings
Comment: Painting The Word is a truly outstanding guide to Christian paintings and their meanings brings art and spirituality together in an inspiring coverage. More than a history of painting, this discusses how Christian images reflected and influenced Christian civilization as a whole, with a universal quality delivering balanced messages. Color reproductions of significant Christian works appear throughout.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful Book to Ponder Painters View of Scripture
Comment: This is an absolutely exquisite book, with highgloss paper and wonderful color reproductions of marvelous paintings.
To this, Drury offers his expert commentary on how one might look at these paintings to see the painter's perspective on the Christian faith.
One will learn much about looking at paintings, and will never casually observe a painting again. I especially have grown fond of two paintings that this marvelous book acquainted me with, Titian's "Vendramin Family" and Lippi's "The Annunciation." Drury's comments here are very useful.
I would like to give this five stars, but withheld this because of my disagreement theologically with Drury. His theology is far too liberal for me, and I'm afraid that he will sway many who will trust his opinion of Divine Scripture as "the gospel truth, or historical critical truth."
A book to consider to turn to to aid one in viewing Christian painting.
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Title: A Journey into Christian Art by Helen De Borchgrave, Helen De Borchgrave ISBN: 0800632400 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Signs & Symbols in Christian Art by George Wells Ferguson ISBN: 0195014324 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Seeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art by Neil MacGregor, Erika Langmuir ISBN: 0300084781 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Image of Christ by Gabriele Finaldi, Neil Macgregor, Susanna Avery-Quash, Xavier Bray, Erika Langmuir, Alexander Sturgis, Susan Avery-Quash ISBN: 0300083653 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Theology and the Arts: Encountering God Through Music, Art, and Rhetoric by Richard Viladesau ISBN: 0809139278 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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