Research Guides: Christianity and the Visual Arts: Other Useful Works

Other Useful Works

Art of the Christian World, A.D. 200 - 1500: A Handbook of Styles and Forms.
Rizzoli, 1982.
For print version locations, see the UofT Library Catalogue.
Chapters on Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic art, including architecture, sculpture, and painting. Highly illustrated with line drawings.
The online version is available on the Internet Archive, a trusted source, but one for which it is necessary to create a free account and login.
Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art.
By Diane Apostolos-Cappadona.
Continuum, 1996.
Myth & Religion in European Painting, 1270-1700.
By Satia and Robert Bernen.
Braziller, 1973.
The stories of 850 common painting subjects drawn from classical mythology, ancient history, the Bible, and lives of the saints. Quotations and summaries from the Bible and from ancient, medieval and Renaissance writers tell the stories as the painters themselves might have known them.
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art.
Edited by Helene E. Roberts.
Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 2 volumes.
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Instead of relating the stories of particular biblical or mythological characters, this work treats the themes of these stories (e.g. abandonment, abduction, adultery). Numerous Christian themes are included: annunciation, apocalypse, baptism, communion, damned souls, death, dreams, grieving, judgment, light, logos, martyrdom, peace, penitence, sacrifice, shepherds, temptation.