The Foundations of Christian Art: IllustratedWorld Wisdom, Inc, 2006 - 114 páginas Titus Burckhardt was a renowned expert on the art of traditional worlds. This book takes the reader through the history of Christian art, focusing especially upon architecture, iconography, and illumination. |
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... cultural anthropologist , was one of the twentieth century's greatest experts on the sacred forms of the traditional ... culture is a social and artistic ex- pression of its underlying religion . To illustrate this connection ...
... cultural anthropologist , was one of the twentieth century's greatest experts on the sacred forms of the traditional ... culture is a social and artistic ex- pression of its underlying religion . To illustrate this connection ...
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... culture with the intrusion of later increasingly secular and humanistic values . Burckhardt's master work on ... cultural , and philosophical aspects of the Christian , Islamic , Buddhist , Hindu , and Far Eastern traditions . As William ...
... culture with the intrusion of later increasingly secular and humanistic values . Burckhardt's master work on ... cultural , and philosophical aspects of the Christian , Islamic , Buddhist , Hindu , and Far Eastern traditions . As William ...
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... culture and human society . Art , for Burckhardt , is at its best in revealing permanent truths ; at its worst it is ... cultural specificity , and spiritual meaning , is the great achievement of this gi- ant of the twentieth century ...
... culture and human society . Art , for Burckhardt , is at its best in revealing permanent truths ; at its worst it is ... cultural specificity , and spiritual meaning , is the great achievement of this gi- ant of the twentieth century ...
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... cultural regions from which other work has hardly been passed down to us at all , in an unchanged form . Most of the buildings of the early Middle Ages were either destroyed or altered in later times ; wall - paintings have ...
... cultural regions from which other work has hardly been passed down to us at all , in an unchanged form . Most of the buildings of the early Middle Ages were either destroyed or altered in later times ; wall - paintings have ...
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... Culture in Ireland The spiritual individuality of the Irish monks may be explained by the fact that Christianity in Ireland did not expand , as it did in nearly all other countries , on a basis of Roman colonization . The Romans had ...
... Culture in Ireland The spiritual individuality of the Irish monks may be explained by the fact that Christianity in Ireland did not expand , as it did in nearly all other countries , on a basis of Roman colonization . The Romans had ...
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The Foundations of Christian Art | 37 |
The Decadence and the Renewal of Christian Art | 91 |
List of Illustrations | 111 |
Términos y frases comunes
12th century according to St altar Ambrosian Iliad ancient angels Apocalypse archetype architecture Aristotle artistic aspect Baroque art Beatus of 975 Beatus of Liébana beauty Boethius book illumination Book of Durrow Book of Kells Byzantine celestial Chartres Cathedral Christ Christian art Church circle Codex color corresponds cosmic cosmos cross culture decorated Divine doctrine essence essentially eternal expression folio forma Frithjof Schuon Gall genius geometrical Gerona Gospel book Gothic art hand Heaven Heavenly Jerusalem Hindu Holy human icon illuminated manuscripts Incarnation Islamic Library light Lindisfarne Gospels liturgy manifested material means medieval Michael Oren Middle Ages miniature models modern monastery monogram nature ornament painting perspective portal prototype psychic religious Renaissance represents revealed Romanesque Rome Royal Door sacred art sacred image sculpture sense solar soul Spain spiritual stone style symbolism temple timeless tion Titus Burckhardt traditional art transcendent truth tympanum unity Virgin and Child Word World Wisdom