CHRISTIAN ART

This book explores the changing nature of the representation of key themes and subjects found in Christian art, covering the Euchari st, the crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Other sections deal with the changes to Christian art after the sixteenth-cent ury Reformation, and with Christian art in the modern world. Within these themes, the book explores the work of major artists such a s Memling, Holbein, El Greco and Rossetti, and well-known examples including the frescoes of St Francis at Assisi. Didactic and cons ciously ...[Read more]