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by: John Drury
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Christianity is another country, says John Drury, and we need to familiarize ourselves with it in order to understand the universal meaning of its art. In this beautifully written book, Drury, an Anglican priest and theologian, looks at religious paintings through the ages and presents them to us in a fresh way?as works filled with passion, stories, and meaning. They become the poetry of such eternal human concerns as birth, death, sacrifice, love, and moral goodness and failure. Drury points out the religious meanings in paintings that range from works by Piero della Francesca to those by Velazquez. In each case he views the whole picture?its composition, color, drawing, figures, and even architecture?and shows how it creates a religious image that addresses the spectator as a spiritual human being. Drury also provides a historical context for the works, comparing our perception with the perceptions of, for example, the medieval monarch or the Renaissance merchant who first .
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Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their
Meanings
Author : John Drury Pages : 220 pages Publisher : Yale University
Press Language : ISBN-10 : 0300092946 ISBN-13 : 9780300092943
Christianity is another country, says John Drury, and we need to
familiarize ourselves with it in order to understand the universal
meaning of its art. In this beautifully written book, Drury, an Anglican
priest and theologian, looks at religious paintings through the ages and
presents them to us in a fresh way?as works filled with passion, stories,
and meaning. They become the poetry of such eternal human concerns
as birth, death, sacrifice, love, and moral goodness and failure. Drury
points out the religious meanings in paintings that range from works by
Piero della Francesca to those by Velazquez. In each case he views
the whole picture?its composition, color, drawing, figures, and even
architecture?and shows how it creates a religious image that addresses
the spectator as a spiritual human being. Drury also provides a
historical context for the works, comparing our perception with the
perceptions of, for example, the medieval monarch or the Renaissance
merchant who first
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