Marina Warner begins with the gospels, noting the slight allusions to Mary, and the curious confusions between the two women of that name. ...
Continue Reading →According to the original design, this book was to serve as a commentary on the pictorial representations of religious subjects. It seemed to ...
Continue Reading →Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result ...
Continue Reading →Federico Borromeo, Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan (1564–1631), is well known as a leading Catholic reformer and as the founder of the Ambrosiana library, art ...
Continue Reading →Identifies and sketches the history of baroque-style churches, palaces, villas, and fountains in Rome and includes a brief look at the Vatican and ...
Continue Reading →Issued in conjunction with a 2016 exhibition of this sculptor rendered by Italian Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and his father, Pietro ...
Continue Reading →In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the “propagandistic” art and architecture of the Jesuit ...
Continue Reading →After 1500, as Catholic Europe fragmented into warring sects, evidence of a pagan past came newly into view, and travelers to distant places ...
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