To: SatinDoll
exactly! It is a fascinating history that I have just begun to explore. I am very interested in any links or books you can recommend or come across in the future. I have also purchased many books on this topic over the last three years (right now in boxes as I just moved) and am always looking for more.
21 posted on
06/30/2008 11:12:41 PM PDT by
GOP Poet
To: GOP Poet
"I am very interested in any links or books you can recommend or come across in the future. I have also purchased many books on this topic over the last three years (right now in boxes as I just moved) and am always looking for more." Although my career has little if anything to do with it, one of my BA's is in Art History, and my primary hobby is calligraphy/manuscript illumination. An essential element to virtually all Christian art, especially in the Byzantine and Roman traditions, is the symbology or iconography and what was basically a visual vocabulary for the generally illiterate masses. A good introduction to the overwhelmingly obvious, as well as some of the more esoteric imagery used is George Ferguson's Signs and Symbols of Christian Art.
35 posted on
07/01/2008 6:36:59 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
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