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  • Virgin of Guadalupe, The

    by John Annerino ...
    The Virgin of Guadalupe is a brilliant art book that celebrates a popular cultural icon, a venerable symbol of compassion, hope, and humility—and one of the most popular pieces of ancient art ever created. Featuring color photographs, bilingual English and Spanish captions, and an evocative essay, the book includes lyrical quotes from Aztec legends, miraculous apparitions, storied histories, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Geometry of Love

    Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church

    A “delightful” tour of Rome’s St. Agnes Outside the Walls, examining the stories, rituals, and architecture of this seventeen-hundred-year-old building (The Christian Science Monitor).In The Geometry of Love, acclaimed author Margaret Visser, the preeminent “anthropologist of everyday life,” takes on the living history of the ancient church of St. Agnes. Examining every facet of the building, from ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leonardo and the Last Supper

    by Ross King ...
    Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Convicting the Innocent

    Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

    This probing analysis of three of Giotto’s major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Gathering the Indigo Maidens

    Modern day human traffickers and art thieves extort a wealthy Laguna Beach, California art collector, Paloma Zubiondo, by offering to release a young Ecuadorian sex-slave in exchange for one of Paloma's treasured 17th century Spanish Colonial paintings, purportedly a stolen painting of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. An epic tale of interwoven narratives that connects art theft and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Kells

    *BARGAIN FULL EDITION

    The Book of Kells is Ireland's greatest national treasure. This late eighth century illuminated manuscript of the four Gospels is named after the monastery at Kells where it resided for most of the Middle Ages. It is currently housed in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, where it has been for the last 350 years. The manuscript comes out the Irish monastic tradition, which was responsible for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art of the Devil

    by Arturo Graf, ...
    “The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration, depending on the society, representations of the underworld served to instruct believers and lead them ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Bosco y obras de arte

    Nacido a mediados del siglo, experimentó en toda su fuerza el drama del Renacimiento y de su guerra con la religión. Las tradiciones y valores medievales se estaban desintegrando para dar lugar al ingreso de la humanidad en un nuevo universo donde la fe pierde parte de su poder y mucho de su magia. Sus alegorías favoritas fueron el cielo, el infierno y la lujuria. El Bosco creía que cada quien ... Read more

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  • Baroque Art

    The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark ... Read more

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  • Christians and Images: Early Christian Attitudes toward Images

    by Steven Bigham ...
    This book aims at combating the Hostility Theory which claims that the Christians in the pagan Roman Empire had no images and rejected them as idolatrous. Did the early Christians, during the first three centuries, 33–313, have images in their churches or places of worship and homes? If they did not, was that because they thought that all images were idols or close to being idols? Did they think ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Oriental Art & Symbolism

    This fascinating edited collection of art historian Titus Burckhardt’s most important writings on Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist art is lavishly illustrated with 140 superb examples of Oriental art, architecture, statuary, and painting. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • From Idols to Icons

    The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity

    Series Book 12 - Christianity in Late Antiquity
    Even the briefest glance at an art museum’s holdings or an introductory history textbook demonstrates the profound influence of Christian images and art. From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes toward sacred images from the third through the early seventh century. From attacks on the cult images of polytheism to the emergence of Christian ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Dancing Warrior Bride!

    Releasing a Generation of Prophetic Worship Warriors of All Ages Through the Arts!

    The Dancing Warrior Bride! is a book on spiritual alignment for those who desire to minister in the arts. It is not for the faint or weakhearted, but for those who dare to be sharpened and challenged by the Word of God so one can operate in a spirit of excellence that takes you beyond the dance.Special training emphasis on how to minister in the anointing by applying spiritual disciplines, walking ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Sistine Secrets

    Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

    A New York Times bestseller, The Sistine Secrets exposes the shocking revelations found in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel artwork.The cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes removed layer after layer of centuries of accumulated tarnish and darkness. Rabbi Benjamin Blech and scholar Roy Doliner’s The Sistine Secrets endeavors to remove the centuries of prejudice, censorship, and ignorance that blind ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 30 Millennia of Erotic Art

    From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility, to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in societies, whatever their morals or cultural references. This work assembles one thousand images of erotic art, from all times and all continents, to illustrate how the representation of these pleasures of the flesh testifies to the evolution of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encountering God Through Dance: The Dancing Bride

    by Saara Taina ...
    Release the Kingdom through Dance!You can experience God’s presence and healing power through dance.Encountering God Through Dance equips believers to worship Jesus in wholehearted devotion—to express love without fear or shame.What people are saying:Encountering God Through Dance is the wonderful journey of a radical lover of God…and a manual for instruction and inspiration. —Bill Johnson, Senior ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Doré's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost"

    by Gustave Doré ...
    Series series Dover Fine Art, History of Art
    Gustave Doré's Romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Milton's monumental epic poem Paradise Lost, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan, were among his finest and most dramatic works. This volume presents superb reproductions of all 50 plates ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caravaggio

    After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592. There he started to paint with both realism and psychological analysis of the sitters. Caravaggio was as temperamental in his painting as in his wild life. As he also responded to prestigious Church commissions, his dramatic style and his realism were seen as unacceptable. Chiaroscuro had existed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rembrandt's Religious Prints

    A stunning catalogue of the seventy religious prints from the 2017 exhibition, featuring detailed background information on each piece.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 ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Occult

    A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic

    by S. Elizabeth ...
    Series series Art in the Margins
    A visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology and otherworldly experiences.Mystical beliefs and practices have existed for millennia, but why do we still chase the esoteric? From the beginning of human creativity itself, image-makers have been drawn to these unknown spheres and have created curious artworks that transcend time and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Salvation of the True Rock: The Sufi Poetry of Najat Ozkaya

    by John R. Mabry ...
    Najat Ozkaya was born in Konya, Turkey, in the 14th century CE. His father was a Sufi teacher, and Najat assumed his mantle upon his death. Najat's poetry is similar to the Sufi poetry of Rumi or Hafiz, centered on the relationship of the soul with its Beloved, Allah. Najat's writings were thought to be lost to the world, until religion scholar John Mabry discovered a hand-copied manuscript in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Doré Bible Illustrations

    by Gustave Doré ...
    Series series Dover Fine Art, History of Art
    Nowhere but in the Bible were dramatic textual material and the artistry of Gustave Doré more perfectly matched. The Book of Books seemed to unleash a new power of creation in Doré not apparent in his previous work. In the Creation scenes, the horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, the plates depicting the life of Jesus — many of which have now become ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visions of Mary

    Art, Devotion, and Beauty at Chartres Cathedral

    Through image and word, the story of Mary at Chartres unfolds on the pages of this book. Author and photographer Jill Geoffrion has unusual access to Chartres Cathedral and offers a unique visual and meditative journey in this newest addition to the Mount Tabor Books series. Readers will discover an architectural marvel, a stunning showcase for the most complete twelfth and thirteenth century ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • All Things Move

    Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

    A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo’s frescoes—and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age.What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context—but in the process, she also found what she didn’t know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD