epub |eng | | Author:Morgan, David

FIGURE 38 “Great-Heart with Christiana and children,” in John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress, part 2 (Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1800), 164. Photo by author. Violence serves in Pilgrim’s Progress as a necessary ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-25 | Author:Judith Couchman

STAG The stag symbolized piety and purity (Ps. 42:1). This nimble animal wandered in high mountains, so it also typified solitude. EXAMPLE: Stags and Birds, Arundel Psalter, illuminated manuscript page ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:John Annerino

One summer I set out to explore the Camino del Diablo on foot. I wanted to experience firsthand what tireless Jesuit missionaries like Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino had seen and ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Makoto Fujimura [Fujimura, Makoto]

Among the many masters of tea at that time, what stood out was Rikyu’s impeccable discernment of refined beauty, which he often found in surprising ordinary objects, or in innovative ...

epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Visser

THE COMMUNION Of SAINTS At Sant’Agnese’s, above the roundels containing portraits of popes come the galleries with their columns and the arches that carry the clerestory walls. First, there is ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:Cameron J. Anderson [Anderson, Cameron J.]

CRISIS From illuminated medieval manuscripts to the names of fallen warriors etched in the black granite of Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial (1982), typography, words and phrases make regular appearance in ...

epub |eng | 2017-08-01 | Author:Mary E DeMuth

DAY 17 How Well Do You Love Those Who Differ? My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Hahn

63 New Sacristy, 1669–72, Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal. 64 New Sacristy (vault), 1669–72, Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal. 65 New Sacristy (detail), reliquary of St Sebastian: polychrome terracotta, glass (now missing: wooden arrows?), ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:Makoto Fujimura [Fujimura, Makoto]

Among the many masters of tea at that time, what stood out was Rikyu’s impeccable discernment of refined beauty, which he often found in surprising ordinary objects, or in innovative ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Richard Hayman

David was often portrayed playing the harp in Psalters. This example from the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter also shows an ape confiding with an owl (upper left). Once it had acquired ...

epub |eng | 2017-12-06 | Author:John Dominic Crossan

Figure 8.8 Figure 8.9 Finally, there is that single image of the universal resurrection tradition on Pantokrator 83r (Fig. 8.10) illustrating the verse: “God gives the desolate a home to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert Beer

Caduceus or serpent-trident. THE SPEAR (Skt. kunta, shakti, shula; Tib. mdung) The spear or lance is a right-hand ‘method’ weapon of many wrathful deities, and essentially symbolizes the piercing or ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Sherry D. Fowler [Fowler, Sherry D.]

The number was likely adopted from traditional concepts of the Hindu or Vedic pantheon, which consists of thirty-three different gods, evenly divided into three groups of eleven. These groups preside ...

mobi |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Gustave Doré [Doré, Gustave]

epub |eng | | Author:Cassia Cogger

In one early round of class it all got to be too much. We had a ten-day stretch of illness in our house. It seemed we were smacked by one ...