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Praying to Portraits

2023-09-14 Art
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Release : 2023-09-14
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Book Synopsis Praying to Portraits by : Adam Jasienski

Download or read book Praying to Portraits written by Adam Jasienski. This book was released on 2023-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the divine. Using Inquisition records, hagiographies, art-theoretical treatises, poems, and plays, Jasienski convincingly demonstrates that portraiture was at the very center of broader debates about the status of images in Spain and its colonies. Highly original and persuasive, Praying to Portraits profoundly revises our understanding of early modern portraiture. It will intrigue art historians across geographical boundaries, and it will also find an audience among scholars of architecture, history, and religion in the early modern Hispanic world.

People in Prayer

1978 Bible
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Release : 1978
Genre : Bible
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Book Synopsis People in Prayer by : John White

Download or read book People in Prayer written by John White. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portraits of Prayer

2016-05-24 Religion
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Release : 2016-05-24
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Portraits of Prayer by : Piqela Gabaza

Download or read book Portraits of Prayer written by Piqela Gabaza. This book was released on 2016-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portraits of Jesus Christ

2019-08-02
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Release : 2019-08-02
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Book Synopsis Portraits of Jesus Christ by : Benedict Prayer Books

Download or read book Portraits of Jesus Christ written by Benedict Prayer Books. This book was released on 2019-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains over 80 paintings of Jesus Christ for the purposes of enjoying and meditating. Painting has always been associated with the life of the Church. From the time of the Catacombs it has been used in ecclesiastical ornamentation, and for centuries after Constantine, religious art was the only form of living art in the Christian world. Its fecundity has been wonderful and even now, although much diminished, is still important. Until the Renaissance, the Church exercised a veritable monopoly over this sphere. Profane painting in Europe dates only from the last five centuries and it took the lead only in the nineteenth century. It may, therefore, be said that throughout the Christian Era the history of painting has been that of religious painting.

Portraits in Faith

2021-11
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Release : 2021-11
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Book Synopsis Portraits in Faith by : Daniel Epstein

Download or read book Portraits in Faith written by Daniel Epstein. This book was released on 2021-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 15 years, Daniel Epstein, a Marketing Director at one of the world's largest corporations, Procter & Gamble, traveled the world for business and for faith. Motivated by his own search to fill the "God-sized hole" in his life, he did not know where it would lead. He felt that if he did not develop some type of spiritual faith he would die. Born and raised a Jew, Daniel's challenges with relationships, work, and "life" forced him at age 36 to get on his knees and pray to a God he did not know, a higher power not specific to either his own Judaism or any religion, and ask for help. In order to keep his new found sense of faith alive and to gain from the experience of others, Daniel created a spiritual exercise out of interviewing people around the world about the role of faith in their lives. As a photographer, Daniel also captured a moment with each person in a black and white portrait meant to evoke their true spirit. In 2012, Daniel launched Portraits on Faith online as the largest documentary project on faith ever compiled by a single person. Over 100 of the 500 portraits shot have been published from 27 countries, which have been viewed over 300,000 times by people around the world. As a culmination of all the work that has to this moment, Daniel is publishing the first volume of Portraits in Faith, which include over 100 portraits, quotes, and reflections on faith from people spanning the world, from over 40 faith traditions and denominations.

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