Painting the text : the artist as biblical interpreter / Martin O'Kane

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Bible in the modern world ; 8 | Bible in the modern worldPublication details: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, c2007Description: xiv, 234 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781905048366
  • 190504836X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 246 Ok1p
Contents:
ch. 1. The Bible and the visual imagination -- ch. 2. The artist as reader of the Bible : visual exegesis and The adoration of the magi -- ch. 3. The flight into Egypt : icon of refuge for the h(a)unted -- ch. 4. The deception of Isaac (Genesis 27) : Matthias Stom's 'Isaac blessing Jacob' -- ch. 5. Imaging 'The man of sorrows' : Isaiah 53 and its visual afterlives -- ch. 6. Biblical landscapes in the Israel Museum -- ch. 7. The four seasons : Nicolas Poussin's biblical landscapes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-224) and indexes

ch. 1. The Bible and the visual imagination -- ch. 2. The artist as reader of the Bible : visual exegesis and The adoration of the magi -- ch. 3. The flight into Egypt : icon of refuge for the h(a)unted -- ch. 4. The deception of Isaac (Genesis 27) : Matthias Stom's 'Isaac blessing Jacob' -- ch. 5. Imaging 'The man of sorrows' : Isaiah 53 and its visual afterlives -- ch. 6. Biblical landscapes in the Israel Museum -- ch. 7. The four seasons : Nicolas Poussin's biblical landscapes

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