Art of the Cross

Art of the Cross
Author: Mary Emmerling
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781423613398

Art of the Cross celebrates one of the world's most recognized ancient symbols-the cross. This iconic symbol predates Christianity in cultures around the world, and has been used as a religious symbol and as an ornament from the dawn of civilization. Crosses have been found in almost every part of the old world, from Scandinavia where the Tau cross symbolized the hammer of the God Thor, to India, where the vertical shaft represents the higher, celestial states of being and the horizontal bar represents the lower, earthly states.

The Cross

The Cross
Author: Robin M. Jensen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0674088808

The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies—along with the forms of devotion—this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus’s death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ’s sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol’s transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix—the cross with the figure of Christ—and whether it should emphasize Jesus’s suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus’s body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen’s wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.

The Cross of Cong

The Cross of Cong
Author: Griffin Murray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780716532743

"This is the first detailed study of the Cross of Cong, one of Ireland's foremost national treasures, and a major piece of medieval metalwork."--Provided by publisher

The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age

The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age
Author: Beatrice E. Kitzinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108577016

In this book, Beatrice E. Kitzinger explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, demonstrating how images were used to assert the value and efficacy of art works. She focuses on the cross, Christianity's central sign, which simultaneously commemorates sacred history, functions in the present, and prepares for the end of time. It is well recognized that the visual attributes of the cross were designed to communicate its theology relative to history and eschatology; Kitzinger argues that early medieval artists also developed a formal language to articulate its efficacious powers in the present day. Defined through form and text as the sign of the present, the image of the cross articulated the instrumentality of religious objects and built spaces. Whereas medieval and modern scholars have pondered the theological problems posed by representation, Kitzinger here proposes a visual argument that affirms the self-reflexive value of art works in the early medieval West. Introducing little-known sources, she re-evaluates both the image of the cross and the project of book-making in an expanded field of Carolingian painting.

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art
Author: Steven Leuthold
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 113685455X

This book provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples.

Carrying the Cross and Following Jesus

Carrying the Cross and Following Jesus
Author: Paul Chungath
Publisher: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788184656640

I found the whole booklet so rich, spiritual and scriptural and appropriately backend by saints, that there was nothing in the book that could be side tracked. Going through the book I felt that the book was the creation of a person who has himself carried the cross, put into practice whatever advice he has given. To make the prick less painful whatever advice he has given. To make the prick less painful Fr. Paul suggests a few methods under the title " The Art of Bearing the Cross". This book, in short, explains to us what the cross it, its meaning, its inevitability, necessity, and its importance in spiritual life.

The Art of Roy Cross

The Art of Roy Cross
Author: Roy Cross
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1785006428

Roy Cross RSMA GAvA began work as an illustrator in Fairey Aviation during World War II. Over the next thirty years, he progressed from line illustration, via colour artwork, to top-class advertising art for the aircraft industry and other companies, including Airfix, for whom he produced many hundreds of artworks to adorn model kit boxes over a ten-year period. His illustrations for Airfix included superb depictions of aircraft, cars, ships, spacecraft, armoured vehicles and dioramas. Though Roy is perhaps most famous for his Airfix box art, his work has encompassed book and magazine illustrations, including highly detailed cutaways and other technical drawings. In more recent years, Roy has concentrated on the production of his magnificent maritime paintings.

Art as Theology

Art as Theology
Author: Andreas Andreapoulos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134936621

Religion and spirituality are key aspects of the contemporary art scene. Following Ronald Barthes' 'death of the author' - which argued for the dissociation of work from creator - works of art have withdrawn as independent objects, giving way to a growing religious awareness or practice. 'Art and Theology' examines the connection between art and religion in ancient Jewish drama, Greek tragedy, the Renaissance, the Byzantine icon and the medieval cathedral. The book explores how art lost its sacred character in the late Middle Ages and how the current withdrawal or 'death' of art and the fusion of the limits of art and life are consistent with the medieval view of the religious icon.