Product Description: This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700...read more

Product Description: No story is more central to Western culture than the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, and none better demonstrates the power of representation in shaping religious faith and practice. The incidence of Passion imagery in diverse media is fundamental to the histories of Christian piety, church politics, and art in European and American societies...read more

Product Description: One of the central and defining beliefs in late-medieval and early-modern spirituality was the notion of the formability of the religious self. Identified with the soul, the self was conceived, indeed experienced, not as an abstraction, but rather as an essential spiritual persona, as well as the intellectual and sensory center of a human being...read more

Product Description: Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, composed by Jerome Nadal (1507-80), St. Ignatius Loyola s closest collaborator in the early days of the Society of Jesus, was first published in Antwerp in 1595 (a second edition followed the same year, and a third edition in 1607)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This work contains seven essays that address ways in which the visual arts act as cultural signifiers, articulating the identity of corporate entities and mediating exchanges between communities who present themselves through art.

Product Description: A treatise on Dutch art on par with Vasari's critical historyof Italian art, Karel van Mander's Schilder-Boeck (orBook on Picturing) has long been recognized for its criticaland historical influence—and yet, until now, nocomprehensive account of the book's conception, aims, andimpact has been available...read more