Religion in Art, Religion

New York: Self Published, 1965 St. Thomas Church, Fifth Ave. and 53rd St., New York City. 63 pages; orange cloth backing with tan paper-covered boards; black title and orange escutcheon on the front board. Many b&w photos with text describing the history and the architectural and ornamental elements of the church: "A Key to the Figures on the Reredos of Saint Thomas" loosely laid in.. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Very Good. Slim 8vo. more information

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Washington: Smithsonian and Vatican Museums, 1977 301 pages. Text in English and Italian. Papers by art historians, museum curators, and artists addressed the impact of religion on American art from the 18th to the 20th century.. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 8vo. Symposium Proceedings. more information

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Tokyo: St. Ignatius Church, 2000 96 pages; numerous color photographs. A picture book commemorating the construction of the new St. Ignatius Church in Kojimachi, Tokyo. Includes statements from the Provincial of the Society of Jesus, parish priest, architect, designer, chairman of the building committee. Statements in Japanese and English; all other text is Japanese.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good/Good. 4to. more information

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London: John Murray, 1951 328 pages; b&w illustrations, including photographs.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1969 122 pages. Photogfraphs: "12 pages of full color and 106 pages of monochrome gravure".. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to. more information

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New York: Dorset Press, 1966 220 pages; b&w illustrations. By the author of The Crusades. Suleiman's rise to power and his threat to and wars with Europe: Islam's counter-crusade against western Christendom. A good read.. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. more information

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Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2001 104 pages. 5 opening essays, including The Origins and Iconography of the Cross; Italian Metalwork Crosses from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century. 16 catalogued crosses each with more than one illustration and essays that usually run a few pages. Bibliography. Clean. . Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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n p: The South Solon Historical Society, 1959 54 pages plus a section of black and white photographs. Clean and tight; small chip to the front cover; spine top chipped; quarter-inch of the back cover corner is gone. Historical tracing of the community from 1798. Includes a guide to the frescoes in the meeting house.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. Illus. by Drawings by Philip Bornarth. 8vo. more information

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London: Blandford, 1999 128 pages. Art and calligraphy by Davis. Text includes Thomas Kinsella's translation of St. Patrick's Beastplate and Ludwig Bieler's translation of The Confession of St. Patrick. Elaine Gill offers several commentaries on St. Patrick and Cletic spirituality. Contents are clean, tight and bright; head of boards bumped, not affecting contents; small defect, a scrape, to front of jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to. more information

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Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1972 192 pages; 123 works are discussed, more than half are illustrated. An exhibition that reveals religion is a theme that runs strongly through the work of American artists, including the most famous.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Square 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1984 225 pages; 120 b/w plates, full-page. Number 5 of Scholars Press' Studies in the Humanities series. Previous institutional owner's rubber stamp on inside of wrappers and on free endpapers. Otherwise, clean and tight.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. more information

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London: National Gallery Company, 2000 224 pages; 79 works illustrated in color with full descriptive entries; additional illustrations throughout; Provenance; Bibliography. The catalogue of the exhibition Seeing Salvation, which aim it was to help the modern secular audience understand the artwork by focusing attention on the purpose for which they were made, and exploring what they might have meant to their original viewers. Clean and tight throughout.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Square 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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London: Sam Fogg - Rare Books, 1989 112 pages; 30 items illustrated in color and fully described as to appearance, construction, text, illumination and provenance. Fine except for some soiling and rubbing of wrappers.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Large 4to. Gallery catalogue. more information

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Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1989 278 pages; numerous b/w and 16 color illustrations. Interestingly organized and complete in its treatment. It includes such as Billy Sunday, Carry Nation and Father Coughlin among the religious and Grant Wood, Ben Shahn, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton and Philip Reisman among the artists along with many others.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to. more information

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New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1944 The sixteen illustrations in b&w with text. The back panel of the wrapper is chipped; top corner of the front panel is repaired.. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Slim 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 2004 39 pages; color and b&w illustrations, including a color fold-out full view of the painting at the end of the book. Bibliography.. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Fine. Small 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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Académie des Beaux-Arts, 1924 73 full-page plates follow 24 pages of descriptive text. Five stained-glass window plates are in color; the sculpture and cathedral details are in b&w. The detail in the photographs is remarkable; the production of the book is unlike - better - than most modern guide books.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. more information

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Paris: Libraire Hachette, 1956 1 signature missing (10 pages). French text. 60 full page b/w; 8 color plates. A photographic documentation of historical sites and landscape that figured in Christ's life. Map labeled with districts, cities and villages named as they were 2000 years ago and with modern names. Interesting views of Palestine and Israel of the 1950s. The dustjacket's plastic covering is delaminating (not shown in image).. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Good./Poor. Illus. by Photographs by Frederique Duran. 4to. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, 1972 414 pages; 190 illustrations; appendices; bibliography; index. "Emile Mâle's great book is basic for the understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It is an indispensable guide for the student of Western culture."- Jacques Maritain.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. more information

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Venezia: Edizioni d'Arte, 1980 62 pages; 41 mosaics reproduced in color, many full-page, four 2-page foldouts; floor plan of the basilica. Italian, German, English, French text. Clean throughout; tight binding.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Folio. more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 unpaginated; 50 full-page black and white photographs of people at prayer. Clean and tight; small nick on front cover panel.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. Square 4to. more information

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Valparaiso, Indiana: Brauer Museum of Art / Valparaiso University, 2000 130 pages; 48 illutrative plates; historical essay; exhibition overview; bibliography. Images representative of many forms of American religious faith. Clean and tight; one corner of cover is bent.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, 1982 270 pages; b/w text illustrations; 23 color plates. The author considers the emergence of cave art 30,000 years ago and suggests hypotheses for its emergence. Substantial loss to the bottom third of the dustjacket's front panel.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fair. 8vo. more information

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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980 95 pages. 23 etchings by Moskowitz. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov was born in Poland in 1700 and is revered as the leader of chasidim. Singer's stories are a collection of his impressions of the Baal Shem Tov's spirit.. 2nd printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Ira Moskowitz. Large 8vo. more information

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Valencia: Dirrecion General de Cultura, 1986 100 pages; numerous reproductions, all but a few in color. The catalogue celebrates " Mon i Misteri de la Festa D'Elx". The Festival is celebrated in mid-August at the time of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin into heaven. Spanish text.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Oblong 8vo. more information

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New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1980 45 pages with 9 color plates.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946 124 pages; dramatically illustrated throughout. Large format, good paper, good font, exciting illustrations, nice layout: readable for young eyes. Blue crayon marks on page 9 (in keeping with the illustration); edges and corners of the boards are worn.. First Printing. Decorated paper boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Feodor Rojankovsky. Folio. more information

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