The Lion Companion To Christian Art

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Christianity has been a central force in the shaping of western culture. It is not surprising, therefore, that the greatest artists down the centuries have sought to paint its story. This book tells the history of Christian art, exploring the purpose behind the masterpieces and looking at the context in which they were created. The modern secular reader who feels detached from the meaning of the paintings will be helped to understand their emotional as well as their asethetic power. And the Christian reader will be encouraged to explore further the wonder and beauty of the Christian cultural legacy. The book includes a final chapter on the way modern artists are continuing and changing the legacy.


Introduction
What is Christian Art?

1 The Art of the Earliest Christians
Judaic and Graeco-Roman Roots

2 In the Sign of the Cross
Constantine and the Entry of Christianity into the Social Mainstream

3 Martyrs and Mainstream
The Early Churches of Italy

4 The Christian Orient
The Christian Art of Palestine, Armenia, Georgia and Syria

5 Out of Africa
The Art of Churches of Coptic Europe, Ethiopia and Nubia

6 The New Rome
Emperor Justinian and Early Byzantium Art

7 The Art of Orthodoxy
Byzantium and the Iconic Tradition
Icons: An Icon Writer’s Perspective (Revd Regan O’Callaghan)

8 The Rise of Islam
Islam and Christian Art
Christian Art in Muslim Contexts (Professor Sheila S Blair, Professor Jonathan M Bloom)

9 Barbarians!
Art and the Re-conversion of the West

10 The Art of Imperialism
Art in the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires
‘Words Passed Down’: Carolingian Pictures of Translation and Transmission (Professor Herbert L Kessler)

11 Rood, Rituals and Christian Rule
Later Anglo-Saxon Art and the Benedictine Reform

12 Romanesque
Pilgrims, Crusaders and European Style
Monastic Aesthetics and the Rise of Gothic Art (Professor Conrad Rudolph)

13 Gothic
Cathedrals, Universities and Urbanisation
Medieval Stained Glass: Patron and Purpose (Professor Virginia Ragunin)

14 Italian Gothic
Art and the Seeds of Rebirth
Christian Art and the Italian City-State (Dr Griffith Mann)

15 The Cultural Life of the Italian-City States
Humanists, Artists and the Rise of the Renaissance
Manuscripts, Humanism and Patronage in Renaissance Florence (Dr Mark Evans)

16 The Italian High Renaissance
Madonnas, Popes and Princes
Brazen Images and Sounding Brass: The Significance and Use of Bronze in Christian Contexts (Victoria Avery)

17 The Northern Renaissance
Merchants and Mysteries

18 Keeping Your Head in Times of Change
Reformation, Resistance and the Rise of Protestantism
The Dispute on Images During the Reformation and Counter-Reformation (Professor Iole Carlettini)

19 Venice the Serene
Mercantile Meditation and the Cost of Sublime Art
From Counter-Reformation to Baroque Aspects of the Arts in Rome (Professor Daniela Gallavotti Cavallero)

20 Protestantism and the Catholic Counter-Reformation
Domestic Piety, Mannerism and the Theatricality of the Baroque
Rubens and the Theatre of the counter-Reformation: Biblical Imagery Made Flesh (Professor Michelle Brown)

21 The Age of Enlightenment
Rationalism, Neo-Classicism and the New Imperialism
The Rise of the Study of the History of Christian Art (Professor Nancy Netzer)

22 Mysticism and Romanticism Reborn
Blake, the Ancients and the Art of Nonconformity
Permission, Prohibition, Patronage and Methodism: A Denomination Engages with Art (Dr Peter Forsaith)

23 Faith and the Origins of North American Art
A New Eden
Religious Folk Art (Professor Virginia Ragunin)

24 Industrial Innovation, Aesthetic Nostalgia
Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Rediscovery of Medievalism

25 Art for a New Age
The Realists, Impressionists and Symbolists

26 The Shock of the New
Mechanisation, Expressionism, Spiritual Realism and the Origins of Abstraction
Jewish Artists, Christian Themes (Emily D Bilski)

27 The Impact of Modernity
Destruction, Creation, Abstraction

28 The Impact of the Second World War
Surrealism, Symbolism and the Resurgence of Figural Art
The Millennium and Beyond: Exhibiting Contemporary Christian Art in Britain (Meryl Donney)

29 The Journey Continues
Earth Art: Landscape, Art and Eco-Theology

30 Innovation and Tradition
Searching for the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
The Scribe Speaks: Making the St John’s Bible (Donald Jackson)

31 Quo Vadis?
Where do we go from here?
Christianity and Contemporary Art in North America: The CIVA Case Study (Dr James Romaine)

32 Some Concluding Thoughts

References

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Picture Acknowledgements

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