Western Art and the Meanderings of a Culture, PB (vol 4) AUTH-10487001 ISBN13: 9781777331702

ISBN13: 9781777331702

including The Blue Plague series

which are thought by Kabbalists to have magical powers

For a trio of colleagues

with the answers to the questions I always had

Western Art and the Meanderings of a Culture, PB (vol 4) AUTH-10487001 ISBN13: 9781777331702Western art from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century; Art Needs No Justification; Miscellaneous articles and reviews. Was Pieter Bruegel the Elder a gnostic? Is that why Jesus is often reduced to an insignificant detail in his paintings? Why do we call seventeenth century Dutch art the 'golden age' of Christian art? These and similar questions about Western art are addressed in this volume, in which we come to know Rookmaaker not primarily