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Laddar... A Journey into Christian Artav Helen De Borchgrave
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A Journey into Christian Art is a tour of Christian art through two millennia. We visit churches and museums and see how the fusion of Christianity and art has produced sublime paintings and sculptures in a rich variety of styles. We glimpse, through the work of artists of faith, reflections of the spiritual and cultural climate of their day. Some, such as Michelangelo, are among the greatest geniuses the world has ever seen; others are virually unknown. Yet whether experience persecution or spiritual revival, war or peace, political repression or freedom, they have all been inspired by the person and message of Christ and his church to make visible the invisible in mosaic, paint and stone; to enrich the mind, touch the heart, and feed the soul. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Judging from what I've read so far (about half way through the second chapter), she's going to stick to the West European tradition, Catholic and then also Protestant. Haven't other Christian traditions produced any art?
I can't comment on her knowledge of art history but her knowledge of general history seems a bit shaky. Unless it's because of very careless phrasing, she seems to be saying that Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries came before Luther's reformation. There were some other things she said earlier in the book which struck me as odd, but I can't remember what they were now.
Another problem that is becoming apparent is the lack of any real definition of what the author means by 'Christian' art? Is it any art painted by Christians, or is art on biblical or other specifically Christian themes? For example, she takes as one of her examples from the work of Peter Breugel the Elder his "Haymaking". It's a nice picture, but what's particularly Christian about it? ( )