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Painting Salvation: A fresh look at twelve classical paintings

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  • Publisher: Arouca Press
  • 20.4 x 25.4 x 2 cm

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Like sails, paintings consist of canvas stretched across perpendicular frames to reach some destination yet unseen. This book is like a sailing boat, then. Each of the twelve paintings commented upon could be seen as one of its sails. They display before our minds some limited aspect of God's revelation: his Incarnation, his childhood, the calling of his apostles, his sacrifice, his Resurrection, and the witness of his saints. Our commentaries offer a time of contemplation, an aesthetic emotion. They seek to reveal the beating heart of famous images. If any artist is expected to help us decipher the world, even more should the Christian artist describe faithfully the Design revealed to men by God. A feast for the mind even of the unbeliever, our approach will set in motion these ingenious paintings as powerful systems of signification. These pictures move
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Near Missed Masses: Ten Short Stories Based on Actual EventsPainting Salvation: A fresh look at twelve classical paintings

  • Title

    Painting Salvation: A fresh look at twelve classical paintings

  • Author

    Armand de Malleray

  • Publisher

    Arouca Press

  • Published

    February 2026

  • Weight

    836g

  • Dimensions

    20.4 x 25.4 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781998492558

  • ISBN-10

    1998492559

  • Eden Code

    7422132

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