Search Results: Genre & Subject / Religious / Christian from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning to wraps. Clip-Art book unused & intact. Verified upon shipping. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Add nostalgic appeal to ads, flyers, posters, newsletters, menus almost any graphic project--with these charming copyright-free images, reproduced from rare turn-of-the-century publications. Included are hearts, flowers, cherubs, Santas, shamrocks, pumpkins, turkeys, flags, bunnies and many other traditional holiday symbols ready for immediate use by graphic artists, decoupeurs and other craftspeople." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. Cloth, 212 pages, illustrations (part colour), maps; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket, with a corner crease/front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Electa/Rizzoli, 1985. 367 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held February to April, 1985 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and May to June, 1985 at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Introductory essays. The Roman World of Caravaggio: His Admirers and Patrons, by Luigi Salerno; The Critical Fortune of a Realist Painter, by Richard E. Spear; Caravaggio Today, by Mina Gregori; Caravaggio's Precursors in North Italy; Caravaggio's Contemporaries in Rome and Naples; Caravaggio: Paintings by, after, or attributed to Caravaggio.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Electa/Rizzoli, 1985. 367 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held February to April, 1985 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and May to June, 1985 at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples. Tight, clean text. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Introductory essays. The Roman World of Caravaggio: His Admirers and Patrons, by Luigi Salerno; The Critical Fortune of a Realist Painter, by Richard E. Spear; Caravaggio Today, by Mina Gregori; Caravaggio's Precursors in North Italy; Caravaggio's Contemporaries in Rome and Naples; Caravaggio: Paintings by, after, or attributed to Caravaggio.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Electa/Rizzoli, 1985. 367 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held February to April, 1985 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and May to June, 1985 at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples. Tight, clean copy. Sunned spine, age toning. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Introductory essays. The Roman World of Caravaggio: His Admirers and Patrons, by Luigi Salerno; The Critical Fortune of a Realist Painter, by Richard E. Spear; Caravaggio Today, by Mina Gregori; Caravaggio's Precursors in North Italy; Caravaggio's Contemporaries in Rome and Naples; Caravaggio: Paintings by, after, or attributed to Caravaggio.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Kunzelsau: Museum Wurth, 2002. 1 volume, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Austrian artist. Alfred Hrdlicka: Das Wort, Das Fleisch Wird = Alfred Hrdlicka: The Word That Becomes Flesh.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1962. 81 pages, illustrations, 180 plates (some colour); 19 cm. First published under title: Tutta la pittura di Piero della Francesca. Translated from the Italian. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2004. 237 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm .Photography by Radek Kurzaj. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First printing. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "A photographic tour of some of rural America's most visually impressive country churches features 250 images of more than forty structures, providing accompanying text that places each church within a historical context and short essays that discuss regional, architectural, and congregational significances." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. 344 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This overview of the 'sister arts' of the nineteenth century by younger scholars in art history, literature, and American studies presents a startling array of perspectives on the fundamental role played by images in culture and society. Drawing on the latest thinking about vision and visuality as well as on recent developments in literary theory and cultural studies, the contributors situate paintings, sculpture, monument art, and literary images within a variety of cultural contexts. The volume offers fresh and sometimes extended discussions of single works as well as reevaluations of artistic and literary conventions and analyses of the economic, social, and technological forces that gave them shape and were influenced by them in turn. A wide range of figures are significantly reassessed, including the painters Charles Willson Peale, Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bingham,… Read More

Florence: Scala Books; Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981. 79 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Munich and New York: Prestel, 1995. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Translated from the German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Examines 100 of the most famous and popular depictions of angels in the history of art. All are illustrated in colour, together with details of each artist and the background of the work in which they appear. The book demonstrates the different ways in which angels have been portrayed in art." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. Cloth, xiv, 185 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing.. 1st.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1973. Cloth, x, 111 pages, 243 pages of illustrations, 8 colour plates; 39 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. No DJ Issued. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio.

London and New York: Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd in association with Stair Sainty Matthiesen, 1985. 119 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light foxing/endpapers. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Italian and Flemish paintings. Extensive catalogue entries.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

San Diego, CA: Timken Museum of Art, 1997. 79 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Timken Museum of Art, December 12, 1997 to April 12, 1998. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986. x, 131 pages; 22 cm. First published, 1959, under title: Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale, a single chapter of a four volume handbook on the history of aesthetics, written by various authors. Translated from the Italian. Tight, clean copy. An excellent, erudite book. "In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture. / Umberto Eco is the author of many books, including The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Experiences in Translation, and The Island of the Day Before." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The medieval aesthetic sensibility; Transcendental beauty; The aesthetics of proportion; The aesthetics of light; Symbol and allegory; Aesthetic perception;… Read More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. xxii, 148 pages, [36] leaves of plates, illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "In this interdisciplinary study, Henry Maguire examines the influence of several literary genres and rhetorical techniques on the art of narration in Byzantium. He reveals the important and wide-reaching influence of literature on the visual arts. In particular, he shows that the literary embellishments of the sermons and hymns of the church nourished the imaginations of artists, and fundamentally affected the iconography, style, and arrangement of their work. Using provocative material previously unfamiliar to art historians, he concentrates on religious art from A.D. 843 to 1453. Professor Maguire first considers the Byzantine view of the link between oratory and painting, and then the nature of rhetoric and its relationship to Christian literature. He demonstrates how four rhetorical genres and devices-description,… Read More

Detroit: Detroit Institute of Art, 1965. Cloth, 196 pages, illustrations (part colour), map; 24 cm. Issued to accompany an exhibition held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, April 6 to May 9, 1965. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by one of the contributors Alfred Moir, with a personalized inscription. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2002. Cloth, 512 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Unlike other books on the subject, Art in Renaissance Italy, Second Edition, covers not only Florence and Rome. Here too are Venice and the Veneto, Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia, Genoa, Padua, Mantua, Verona, Ferrara, Urbino, and Naples - each one distinctively governed, each with unique political and social structures that inevitably affected artistic styles. Spanning more than three centuries, the narrative brings to life the rich tapestry of Italian Renaissance society from the mid-13th century to 1600. Special features evoke and document the people and places of this dynamic age. 'Contemporary Scene' boxes provide fascinating glimpses of daily life: the food that people ate, how they entertained themselves,… Read More

Fort Worth and Dallas: InterCultura; Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University: Distributed by University of Texas Press, 1991. 126 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Lenders to the exhibition; Foreword; Introduction; Preface and acknowledgments; Curator's preface and acknowledgments; Color plates; The art of private devotion: retablo painting of Mexico; The impact of European prints on the devotional tin paintings of Mexico; An introduction: The context of the Mexian Retablo; Catalogue of the exhibition.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.