{"product_id":"christian-art-rowena-loverance-9780674024793","title":"Christian Art","description":"\u003cp\u003ePalm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier-mache figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such, distinguishes them from other works? These are the questions at the center of this book, which is at once a sumptuously illustrated survey of Christian art over time and across the globe and a probing study of what \"Christian art\" really means, how it functions, where it arises, and whom it serves. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Rowena Loverance draws extensively on the vast international collections of the British Museum, with its remarkable examples of Christian art in the fourth-century Roman empire, the meeting of Eastern and Western art during the Crusades, Christian missionary art and its reception in sixteenth-century Africa, India, and Japan, and twentieth-century Christian popular art from Latin America and Oceania. The Museum's collections of decorative arts yield original and lesser-known Christian iconography, allowing the author to show how Christian and other artists have responded to a variety of visual traditions. Within the European convention, the book considers the assaults of post-Renaissance scientific and philosophical discoveries and concludes with an assessment of the current state of Christian art at the beginning of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowena Loverance","offers":[{"title":"As New","offer_id":46144183861491,"sku":"7770002729560","price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/christian-art-rowena-loverance-9780674024793","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}