No comments about Buddha.

1 comments about The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms.

1. Last few decades of Sikhism has seen fairly negative image from both the political and media world. Here is a book with a refreshing change. It brings out something more positive from Sikh World, and portrays the Arts during Sikh Kingdom.

   This book presents a dazzling array of objects ranging from paintings and textiles to ceramic tiles, metalwork, books, decorative arts and photography, which all attest to the flourishing of the traditional arts during Sikh rule and thereafter.

   This book complements the exhibition "The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms". The author is also curator of this exhibition from Victoria & Albert Museum.

   (this exhibition is being held at ROM, Toronto, Canada from May 27 to Aug 20, 2000)

1 comments about Female Crucifix, The: Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages.

1. this book explains the relevance of the little-known, now un-sainted Saint Wilgefortis. The author carefully examines the history of this saint, analyzes current discussion of her, and provides an interesting feminist analysis on the veneration of Wilgefortis.
   It is a valuable contribution to the subject of women in Christianity.

No comments about Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni (Visual Culture in Early Modernity).

No comments about Raise the Banners High! Making and Using Processional Banners.

1 comments about Glory of Creation (Thomas Kinkade's Lighted Path Collection).

1. Thomas Kinkade is the name of a painter, and now an industry, that produces highly colorful, saccharin kitsch that is found decorating all sorts of objects. I first encountered Kinkade's work as elaborately framed "paintings" displayed in a gallery at the front of a local furniture emporium. I was shocked to see four-figure prices attached to pieces that were obviously some sort of reproduction. These prices led me to suspect a scam was under way, especially when I noticed blobs of white pigment standing in bas relief from the surface, obvously meant to give the illusion of a hand-painted work. When I asked a hovering saleslady whether she was aware the pieces were reproductions, she readily admitted they were. And recently, an ad in the local paper invited all and sundry to come watch an expert from the Kinkade factory apply these white "highlights" to the lithographs, which are apparently shipped without them. I would suggest that the lithos be sold with a tube of paint so the buyer can apply his own "highlights" and thus create a real original. For the prices asked, you should get at least enough paint to do your living room, too.

No comments about Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas.

No comments about Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573) (S U N Y Series in Buddhist Studies).

No comments about Luca Signorelli: The San Brizio Chapel, Orvieto (Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance).

No comments about The Hours of Henry VIII: A Renaissance Masterpiece by Jean Poyet.