Product Description: Saints are often depicted with particular objects that played a dramatic role in their lives, and these objects or characteristics have become symbolic of the saints and can be used to identify them in art. For instance, Saint Catherine of Alexandria is usually shown with a wheel, the object on which she was tortured as a result of her faith, while Saint Peter the Apostle often appears with the keys to heaven given to him by Jesus...read more

Product Description: Includes bonus advent calendar!Returning for its fourth successful year, this calendar offers blessings throughout the year. Inspired by Abrams' bestselling book Saints: A Year in Faith and Art, the calendar highlights more than 40 saints and paintings by old masters, including Peter Paul Rubens, el Greco, Anthony van Dyck, and Fra Angelico...read more

Product Description: This exquisite 16-month calendar highlights over 60 of the world's most beloved saints. From angels and abbots to mystics and martyrs, from priests and prophets to virgins and visionaries, their images and stories will inspire readers throughout 2010...read more

Product Description: This exquisite calendar highlights over sixty of the world's most beloved saints. From angels and abbots to mystics and martyrs, from priests and prophets to virgins and visionaries, their images and stories will inspire readers throughout 2010. Includes a bonus advent calendar!

Product Description: In this richly illustrated volume Rosa Giorgi argues that because much of Western art depicts key events, leaders, and practices in the history of the Christian Church, knowledge of that history is critical to an appreciation of many of our great masterpieces...read more

Product Description: This volume presents the most noteworthy concepts, artists, and cultural centers of the seventeenth century through a close examination of many of its greatest paintings, sculptures, and buildings. The Baroque, rooted in classicism but with a new emphasis on emotionalism and naturalism, was the leading style of the seventeenth century...read more

Portrays more than 375 Catholic saints, arranged by the days of the year on which each is honored. The images range from world-famous works of art by such masters as Caravaggio, Rubens, Velazquez, and El Greco to more modern and lesser-known depictions. Author Giorgi has chosen up to three saints for each day of the year and has composed a brief accompanying description of each, including etymology of names, historical background, and patronage. Encompassing angels and abbots, mystics and martyrs, priests and prophets, virgins and visionaries, the portraits in these pages will inspire Catholics and fascinate scholars and art historians.--From publisher description.Provides an illustrated entry for all the saints of the liturgical calendar and popular tradition, including the etymology of the saint's name, traditional iconography, and a list of the countries, cities, and occupations under the saint's patrongage.

With profound texts, through an agile presentation and complemented by more than four hundred full-color illustrations, Rosa Giorgi shows us paintings, frescoes, sculptures, engraved codices, and engravings populated by the most amazing heavenly and demonic figures, ranging from seraphs and cherubs, to the riders of the Apocalypse, demonic possessions and exorcisms, purgatory and paradise.

Product Description: From Agatha to Zeno, Francis of Assisi to Mary Magdalene, Saints in Arti presents the characteristic features of more than one hundred saints often encountered in sacred Western art. Each saint is introduced by a practical list of his or her unique attributes...read more

Traces the life of the Italian artist, analyzes his works, and explains the historical and social context of his painting