Christian Art

by Michelle P. Brown

Explore the rich history and influence of Christian art from Antiquity to the present day.
Michelle Brown traces the rich history of Christian art, crossing boundaries to explore how art has reflected and stimulated a response to the teachings of Christ, and to Christian thought and experience across the ages.
Embracing much of the history of art in the West and parts of the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australasia, Michelle considers art of the earliest Christians to the modern day. Featuring articles by invited contributors on subjects including Icons; Renaissance Florence; Rubens and the Counter-Reformation; Religious Folk Art; Jewish Artists; Christian Themes; Making the St John’s Bible, and Christianity and Contemporary Art in North America, Christian Art is an ideal survey of the subject for all those interested in the world’s artistic heritage. 

•? Comprehensive and authoritative text from the Early Christian period to the modern day
•? Wide international coverage
•? Feature articles on special subjects by a team of experts from around the world

Genres: Art History

414 pages, Paperback

Published January 22, 2021

About the author

Michelle P. Brown is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She was previously (1986–2004) Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. She has been a historical consultant and on-screen expert on several radio and television programmes. She has published books on the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Luttrell Psalter and the Holkham Bible.

Reviews

[Tahlia Fernandez]

The only reason I have this book marked as “not finished” is that I have switched over to the author’s book “The Lion Companion to Christian Art”, which contains the same text, but with pictures. The lack of picture is my biggest issue with this edition, so while I will continue to follow along with this edition and highlight and write notes in it, I am mostly reading from my clean copy of “The Lion Companion to Christian Art”. It baffles me why the publisher would choose to release the text without the art.

So I still love and am interacting with the text; this is just now my mark-up edition, since it is my plain picture-less one. A happy accident of not realizing that the text was the same between the two books when I picked them both up a year or so ago.

[Michael F. Hayes · Rating 1 out of 5]

A book about art without a single illustration

save your money - not even a link to the art works being described is included. This was very disappointing.

[Mark]

Do note there are no photos or illustrations in this book.