The Bible and Its Painters"This volume offers an entirely fresh look at the enormous richness and variety of illustrations of the Old and New Testaments made by painters--of both pictures and frescos. The period covered ranges from the time when artists first became capable of fluent narrative illustration as we understand it today until the beginning of the twentieth century, when artists moved away from narrative painting."--Book jacket. |
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