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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The early stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral, circa 1175-1220	Caviness, Madeline Harrison	xix, 190 pages, 52 unnumbered leaves of plates : 29 cm	OL13377424W
Emil Nolde	Manfred Reuther,Emil Nolde,Jolanthe Nolde,Barnett Newman	The book, its title a reference to a characterization that his artist friend Paul Klee bestowed on Nolde, is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Emil Nolde' at Zentrum Paul Klee and includes…	OL1392435W
The life of Jesus in masterpieces of art	Mary Pope Osborne	Events of the life of Jesus retold from the Gospels of the New Testament-- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Sources used were the Holy Bible in the King James version and the Revised Standard version.	OL15131177W
The Green Man	Richard Hayman	Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Inspired by the illustrations in book margins where heads were used to …	OL15886041W
A treasury of Anglican art	James Beasley Simpson	"The first comprehensive book on the art and architecture of the Anglican (Episcopal) Church, will serve to many as an eye-opener that will dazzle and excite the senses and the mind. The Anglican Chu…	OL17860621W
Images of the natives in the art of New Spain	Elisa Vargas Lugo de Bosch	This splendid publication is the result of a 5 year research project initiated by Dr. Elisa Vargaslugo, who along with a group of prestigious art historians gathered a collection of graphic testimoni…	OL18741006W
Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies	David Nirenberg	From Amazon: Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Jud…	OL19267128W
The World's Oldest Church	Michael Peppard	Michael Peppard provides a historical and theological reassessment of the oldest Christian building ever discovered, the third-century house-church at Dura-Europos. Contrary to commonly held assumpti…	OL20930380W
Redeemed at countless cost	Stewart A. Dippel	This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an ic…	OL20975327W
Word and image	William J. Diebold	An introductory account and interpretation of early medieval art combining art, history, and ideas from 600 to 1050.	OL221410W
Kreuzgänge mittelalterlicher Frauenklöster	Olaf Siart	Im Mittelpunkt des Buches stehen Kreuzgänge deutscher Frauenklöster und ihre künstlerische Ausstattung. Die Bildprogramme, die den inneren Bereich der Klöster schmückten, werden auf ihre ikonografisc…	OL33100810W
Episodi e personaggi del Vangelo	Stefano Zuffi	384 p. : 20 cm	OL3694189W
The Reformation and the visual arts	Sergiusz Michalski	Covering a vast geographical and chronological span, and bringing new and exciting material to light, The Reformation and the Visual Arts provides a unique overvie of religious images and iconoclasm,…	OL4045081W
Theaters of Conversion	Samuel Y. Edgerton	"The author brings a wealth of knowledge of medieval and Renaissance European history, philosophy, theology, art, and architecture to bear on colonial Mexico at the same time as he focuses on indigen…	OL4083124W
The Uta Codex	Adam S. Cohen	276 p. : 29 cm	OL475743W
The Jívaro	Michael J. Harner	Spanish : 3a ed	OL4804364W
O tempo e a pedra	Paula Andréa Caluff Rodrigues	In 1850 was opened in Belem of Para the “Cemiterio Nossa Senhora da Soledade”, beginning the systematic burial outside the churches, being deactivated with just 30 years of use. For its cultural valu…	OL5866565W
Monsters and grotesques in medieval manuscripts	Alixe Bovey	"The monstrous creatures that embellish the pages of medieval manuscripts have a long pedigree. From their origins in classical antiquity, the Bible, scientific writing and folklore they travelled th…	OL6070129W
The beginnings of Christian art	David Talbot Rice	Here in brief compass is a survey of early Christian and early Medieval art as a whole with illustrations.	OL6714793W
Le Message des Constructeurs de Cathédrales	Christian Jacq	Jacq retoma el tema del mensaje contenido en las representaciones que adornan estas construcciones. Ambos libros perseveran en la teoría planteada por primera vez por Fulcanelli en su libro El mister…	OL695631W