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Angels and Demons in Art
Rosa Giorgi
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Description for Angels and Demons in Art
Paperback. Analyzing artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition, this volume describes how they evolved over time. Divided into chapters, it looks at these images, and how they came to be portrayed with the physical attributes - wings, halos, horns, and cloven hooves. Num Pages: 384 pages, 400 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 712.
This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the "Guide to Imagery" series, the goal of this volume is to help contemporary art enthusiasts decode the symbolic meanings in the great masterworks of Western Art. The first chapter traces the development of images of the Creation and the After world from descriptions of them in the Scriptures through their evolution in later literary and philosophical works. The following two chapters examine artists' depictions of the ... Read more
This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the "Guide to Imagery" series, the goal of this volume is to help contemporary art enthusiasts decode the symbolic meanings in the great masterworks of Western Art. The first chapter traces the development of images of the Creation and the After world from descriptions of them in the Scriptures through their evolution in later literary and philosophical works. The following two chapters examine artists' depictions of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Santa Monica CA, United States
ISBN
9780892368303
SKU
V9780892368303
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About Rosa Giorgi
ROSA GIORGI is an art historian specializing in iconography. She is the author of Saints in Art, also in the Guide to Imagery series.
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