Author: Michelle P. Brown
Hardcover: 448 pages
Company: Lion UK (2008-11-01)
ISBN: 0745951775
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In the 320's AD the Emperor Constantine moved the capital of his Empire from Rome to Byzantium, which was renamed Constantinople, and until its fall in 1453 remained a major artistic centre. Under successive emperors and empresses for more than a thousand years, artists, archtects and craftsmen produced superb and intriguing works ranging fom the grandest public buildings to the smallest and most personal items. Today this art is generally termed early Christian and Byzantine. Working from the surviving material this work explains how and why early Christian and Byzantine art was made and used. The reader is taken on a journey of discovery as the ideas this art sought to express are considered.

Author: John Lowden
Paperback: 448 pages
Company: Phaidon Press (1997-04-24)
ISBN: 0714831689
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Author: Christian Art Gifts
Imitation Leather: 400 pages
Company: Christian Art Gifts Inc (2008-07)
ISBN: 1770360115
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It is not too often one can read or listen to a 2600 year-old book and know that it still has relevance and importance today. The Art of War has long been considered not only a military classic, but a classic book in general. Sun Tzus treatise on various aspects and components of wartime strategy is highly recommended for insight into the Eastern mindset and military planning. It also can apply to business, legal and educational situations as well.

Author: Sun Tzu
Audio CD: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
Company: Mission Audio (2010-10-01) (2010-10-01)
ISBN: 1610450639
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Superbly researched texts take the reader on a tour through the epochs and highlight the specific changes in sacral art, architecture and culture. The viewer seems close enough to touch the objects, and magnified images delight even in the finest details.

Author: Prof. Dr. Rainer Warland, Prof. Dr. Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck, Dr. Uwe Geese, Prof. Dr. Bruno Klein, Dr. Barbara Borngässer, Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, Dr. Maria-Christina Boerner, Prof. Dr. Bruno Boerner, Achim Bednorz
Hardcover: 800 pages
Company: hf ULLMANN (2010-11-01) (2010-11-01)
ISBN: 3833151404
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This guide to Christian architecture gives you an overview of the history of Christian religious architecture and serves as a reference guide for identifying defining architectural styles and how each style transformed over time.

In this Approach Guide, we explore the historical evolution of Christian religious architecture, with a particular focus on its Italian manifestations. We first examine the earliest forms of pre-Christian Greek and Roman “pagan” architecture, and its influences (the Egyptian and Mycenaen civilizations). We then take a deeper look at the Christian architectural tradition and provide detailed profiles of Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque church styles. For each style, we explore how it evolved over time, its influences, its characteristic design and structural elements, and quintessential examples.

This Approach Guide will be useful when visiting any Christian religious building, however, here are the most quintessential examples of Christian religious architecture.

- Greek architecture. Athens, Turkey (Ephesus and Didyma), Sicily (Agrigento and Selinunte), Paestum (Italy)
- Roman architecture. The best examples are found in Rome.
- Early Christian architecture. Rome, Milan, Jerusalem
- Byzantine architecture. Istanbul, Venice, Ravenna (Italy)
- Carolingian architecture. Corvey (Germany)
- Romanesque architecture. Conques (France), Milan, Pisa (Italy)
- Gothic architecture. Paris, Milan
- Renaissance architecture. Florence, Mantua (Mantova) (Italy)
- Baroque architecture. The best examples are found in Rome.

We hope you enjoy what we believe is a totally unique cultural guide to Christian architecture in Europe.

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Kindle Edition: 32 pages Kindle eBook
Company: Approach Guides (2011-03-02) (2011-03-02)
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A book grounded in the Bible, contemporary spiritual theology and the insights of modern psychology, written as a guide for anyone who is required to assist others in human growth.

Author: Thomas N. Hart
Paperback: 128 pages
Company: Paulist Press (1980-01-01)
ISBN: 0809123452
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First published in 1954 and having gone through several editions, this comprehensive book remains the authoritative source in the study of symbols in Christian art. This paperback edition includes all of the three hundred fifty illustrations from the original edition, as well as the complete and unabridged text, revealing . the symbolism inherent in representations of religious personages, the Earth and Sky, animals, birds, insects, and flowers. In addition to a discussion of objects treated symbolically in Christian art, George Ferguson explores Old Testament characters and events and their symbolic representation in art. In addition to a discussion of objects treated symbolically in Christian art, George Ferguson explores Old Testament characters and events and their symbolic representation in art.

Author: George Ferguson
Paperback: 192 pages
Company: Oxford University Press, USA (1966-12-31)
ISBN: 0195014324
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This massive ebook would be quite unwieldy in print form, as is contains between twenty and forty works (depending on your counting skills) written for any possible occasion. Included are relatively copyright free dinner theaters to spice up your boring spaghetti dinner fundraisers, skits for Fine Arts Festivals and other competitions, monologues to improve your acting abilities, and several bushels of ideas on how to best edit and warp my precious creations for your own nefarious purposes.

Author: Nick Angelis
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Company: GG Press (2012-02-02) (2012-02-02)
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Imagine art that is risky, complex and subtle! Imagine music, movies, books and paintings of the highest quality! Imagine art that permeates society, challenging conventional thinking and standard morals to their core! Imagine that it is all created by Christians! This is the bold vision of Steve Turner, someone who has worked among artists--many Christian and many not--for three decades. He believes Christians should confront society and the church with the powerful impact art can convey. He believes art can faithfully chronicle the lives of ordinary people and equally express the transcendence of God. He believes that Christians should be involved in every level of the art world and in every media. Yet art and artists have not always been held in high esteem by conservative Christians. Art rarely seems to communicate clear propositional truth, rarely deals with certainties and absolutes. And the lifestyles of artists too frequently seem at odds with the gospel. So the arts have often been discouraged among Christians. Throughout this stimulating book, however, Turner builds a compelling case against such a perspective. He shows that if Jesus is Lord of all of life and creation, then art is not out of bounds for Christians. Rather it can and should be a way of expressing faith in creatively, beautifully, truthfully arranged words, sounds and sights. This stirring call is must reading for every Christian who has been drawn to the arts or been influenced by them.

Author: Steve Turner
Paperback: 131 pages
Company: IVP Books (2001-04-18)
ISBN: 0830822917
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