Environmental values in Christian art
By: Susan Power Bratton.
Series: SUNY series on religion and the environment
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791472651
Subjects: Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Nature in art; Christian art and symbolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Environmental values in Christian art; title: The good shepherd and his dog : nature in the earliest Christian art; title: Cosmos without a crucifix : Basilicas in Rome and Ravenna; title: Irish creation from high crosses to the Book of Kells; title: Urbanization and the end of animal sacrifice; title: Medieval transitions : a dying creator and the hybridization of hell; title: The transcendent gothic : glorious light, green cross; title: Gothic perspectives on feudalism, urbanization, peasants and poverty; title: Gothic naturalism, Christian dualism and environmental racism; title: Renaissance realism : the virgins meadow; title: The reformers : the creator in rustic landscapes; title: God's body and blood as bread and wine.