The Lion companion to Christian art / [edited by] Michelle P. Brown.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Lion, 2008.Description: 448 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780745951775 (hbk.)
  • 0745951775 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Companion to Christian art
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • REF N 7830 .L49 2008
Contents:
Introduction. What is Christian art? -- 1. The art of the earliest Christians : Judaic and Greco-Roman roots -- 2. In the sign of the cross : Constantine and the entry of Christianity into the social mainstream -- 3. Martyrs and mosaics : the early churches of Italy -- 4. The Christian Orient : the Christian art of Palestine, Armenia, Georgia and Syria -- 5. Out of Africa : the art of the churches of Coptic Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia -- 6. The new Rome : Emperor Justinian and early Byzantine art -- 7. The art of Orthodoxy : Byzantium and the iconic tradition -- 8. The rise of Islam : Islam and Christian art -- 9. Barbarians! : art and the re-conversion of the West -- 10. The art of imperialism : art in the Carolingian and Ottonian empires -- 11. Roods, rituals and Christian rule : later Anglo-Saxon art and the Benedictine reform -- 12. Romanesque : pilgrims, crusaders and European style -- 13. Gothic : cathedrals, universities and urbanization -- 14. Italian Gothic : art and the seeds of rebirth -- 15. The cultural life of the Italian city-states : humanists, artists and the rise of the Renaissance -- 16. The Italian high Renaissance : Madonnas, popes and princes -- 17. The northern Renaissance : merchants and mysteries -- 18. Keeping your head in times of change : reformation, resistance and the rise of Protestantism -- 19. Venice the serene : mercantile meditation and the cost of sublime art -- 20. Protestantism and the Catholic counter-reformation -- 21. The age of enlightenment : rationalism, neo-classicism and the new imperialism -- 22. Mysticism and romanticism reborn : Blake, the ancients and the art of nonconformity -- 23. Faith and the origins of North American art : a new Eden -- 24. Industrial innovation, aesthetic nostalgia : romanticism, pre-Raphaelitism and the rediscovery of medievalism -- 25. Art for a new age : the realists, impressionists and symbolists -- 26. The shock of the new : mechanization, expressionism, spiritual realism and the origins of abstraction -- 27. The impact of modernity : destruction, creation, abstraction -- 28. The impact of the Second World War : surrealism, symbolism and the resurgence of figural art -- 29. The journey continues : Earth art : landscape, art and eco-theology -- 30. Innovation and tradition : searching for the spiritual in contemporary art -- 31. Quo vadis? : where do we go from here? -- 32. Some concluding thoughts.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. What is Christian art? -- 1. The art of the earliest Christians : Judaic and Greco-Roman roots -- 2. In the sign of the cross : Constantine and the entry of Christianity into the social mainstream -- 3. Martyrs and mosaics : the early churches of Italy -- 4. The Christian Orient : the Christian art of Palestine, Armenia, Georgia and Syria -- 5. Out of Africa : the art of the churches of Coptic Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia -- 6. The new Rome : Emperor Justinian and early Byzantine art -- 7. The art of Orthodoxy : Byzantium and the iconic tradition -- 8. The rise of Islam : Islam and Christian art -- 9. Barbarians! : art and the re-conversion of the West -- 10. The art of imperialism : art in the Carolingian and Ottonian empires -- 11. Roods, rituals and Christian rule : later Anglo-Saxon art and the Benedictine reform -- 12. Romanesque : pilgrims, crusaders and European style -- 13. Gothic : cathedrals, universities and urbanization -- 14. Italian Gothic : art and the seeds of rebirth -- 15. The cultural life of the Italian city-states : humanists, artists and the rise of the Renaissance -- 16. The Italian high Renaissance : Madonnas, popes and princes -- 17. The northern Renaissance : merchants and mysteries -- 18. Keeping your head in times of change : reformation, resistance and the rise of Protestantism -- 19. Venice the serene : mercantile meditation and the cost of sublime art -- 20. Protestantism and the Catholic counter-reformation -- 21. The age of enlightenment : rationalism, neo-classicism and the new imperialism -- 22. Mysticism and romanticism reborn : Blake, the ancients and the art of nonconformity -- 23. Faith and the origins of North American art : a new Eden -- 24. Industrial innovation, aesthetic nostalgia : romanticism, pre-Raphaelitism and the rediscovery of medievalism -- 25. Art for a new age : the realists, impressionists and symbolists -- 26. The shock of the new : mechanization, expressionism, spiritual realism and the origins of abstraction -- 27. The impact of modernity : destruction, creation, abstraction -- 28. The impact of the Second World War : surrealism, symbolism and the resurgence of figural art -- 29. The journey continues : Earth art : landscape, art and eco-theology -- 30. Innovation and tradition : searching for the spiritual in contemporary art -- 31. Quo vadis? : where do we go from here? -- 32. Some concluding thoughts.

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