Bible, art, gallery
By: edited by Martin O'Kane
Series: Bible in the Modern World -- 21; Bible in the modern world -- 21.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781906055639
Subjects: Barber Institute of Fine Arts; Manchester City Art Gallery; Exhibitions; Hermeneutics; Christian art and symbolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Hermeneutics, aesthetic experience, and religious understanding / Nicholas Davey; title: Framing the word: commentary, context, and composition / John Harvey; title: The desert in biblical art: William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat, in the Manchester Art Gallery / David Jasper; title: Notorious biblical women in Manchester: Spencer Stanhope's Eve and Frederick Pickersgill's Delilah / J. Cheryl Exum; title: Musical instruments in biblical art: Evaristo Baschenis's Still Life with Musical Instruments (1660) / Siobhán Dowling Long; title: 'Behold the man!' (John 19.5); title: Pilate's words in art and literature: Van Dyck's Ecce Homo, in the Barber Institute of Fine Art / John F.A. Sawyer; title: Poussin, a poem and a sacred story: Nicholas Poussin's Tancred and Erminia, in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts / Keith Tester; title: Who is Esau (Genesis 27.32)? Matthias Stom's Isaac Blessing Jacob, in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts / Martin O'Kane.