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Dictionary of Christian art

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This dictionary is intended to give the reader access to the pictorial tradition that was once the common visual vocabulary of Christians. According to the author, an editor of several books on art and religion, laypersons of the medieval and Renaissance periods understood the symbolic significance of objects or saints' attributes depicted in artwork. This dictionary is a fascinating guide to these symbols for contemporary readers. In her introduction, the author describes how the reader might use the dictionary to decipher the meaning of symbolic elements in a painting of the baptism of Christ by the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece.

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R 246.03 APO d

Z. HANDIMAN

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R 246.03 APO d

Publisher

New York : ., 1998

Collation

376p.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8264-1065-0

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R 246.03

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Subject(s)

CHRISTIAN ART- DICTIONARIES

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