Picturing The Apocalypse: Book Of Revelation In Arts Over Two Millennia Anthony O&Apos Hear Oxford University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Art General

The Book Of Revelation Has Been A Source Continual Fascination For Nearly Two Thousand Years Concepts Such As Lamb God Four Horsemen Seventh Seal Beasts And Antichrist Whore Babylon Armageddon Millennium Last Judgement New Jerusalem Ubiquitous Angel Apocalypse Have Captured Popular Imagination One Can Hardly Open Newspaper Or Click On News Web Site Without Reading About Impending Financial Climate Change While Concept Pervades Music Gaming Satire Yet Few People Know Much Either Basic Meaning Original Context These Multiplicity Different Ways In Which They Interpreted By Visual Artists Particular History This Most Widely Illustrated All Biblical Books Deserves Greater Attention Fills Gaps Striking Way Means Ten Concise Thematic Chapters Explain Origins From An Accessible Explanations Are Augmented Developed Via Carefully Selected Sample Treated Through Centuries 120 Examples Drawn Wide Range Time Periods Media Including Ninth-Century Trier Thirteenth-Century Anglo-Norman Manuscripts Lambeth Trinity Apocalypses Fourteenth-Century Angers Tapestry Fifteenth-Century Altarpieces Van Eyck Memling Dürer Cranach\ S Sixteenth-Century Woodcuts More Recently Works William Blake J M W Turner Max Beckmann Well Film Posters Stills Cartoons Children\ Illustrations Final Chapter Demonstrates Continuing Resonance Themes Contemporary Religious Political Thinking Throughout Contrast Will Be Between Those Readers Who Seen It Terms Earthly Revolutions Here Now Adopted Spiritual Otherworldly Approach Σελίδες: 368 Διαστάσεις: 16 4X16 4Cm