1 comments about Allegory and the Migration of Symbols (Collected Essays of Rudolf Wittkower).

1. This book has a taxonomy of sets of similar symbols with which the history of their locations, uses, and meanings can be put together to see the whole. Well researched and written/translated. Not a dictionary of symbols with definitions, or even an encyclopedia - more like a collection of specific histories.

1 comments about Bernini and the Idealization of Death: The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni and the Altieri Chapel.

1. As the only monograph-length study of Bernini's statue of Beata Ludovica Albertoni, this book fills an important gap in Bernini art historiography. It has for this reason also attracted a certain amount of critical attention. While valuable in all kinds of ways (it reproduces sections of several primary sources dealing with the Beata, her life and the attempt to have her canonised), this is a deeply flawed book that suffers because of its reluctance from a unified vision of the statue's symbolism; Perlove reads Bernini's conception as multivalent in a way that most commentators on the 'bel composto' generally do not, and the result is an unsynthesised mish-mash of different points of view. Readers wanting something more coherent is terms of a reading are better off with Careri's 'Bernini: flights of love, the art of devotion'. The photography in this book is of a shocking quality. Most tourists to this sculpture take better pictures of this sculpture than are in this book.

No comments about Culture in Christian Perspective: A Door to Understanding and Enjoying the Arts (Critical Concern Book).

No comments about The Word Made Image: Religion, Art, and Architecture in Spain and Spanish America, 1500-1600 (Fenway Court).

No comments about Sacred And Profane: Voice And Vision in Southern Self-taught Art.

No comments about The Origin of the Buddha Image & Elements of Buddhist Iconography.

1 comments about Historic Gravestone Art of Charleston, South Carolina, 1695-1802.

1. Every visit to Charleston for me includes a walk through the historic graveyards all over the city. This book makes me want to go back and re-visit all the sites. It has so much information about the church, the gravestones (symbols, history), the people in the graves, and the carvers. I never knew to look for the carver until this book. It really is a great book for anyone who likes grave stone art/history, even if you never make it to Charleston. I checked the book out from the library and liked it so much, I had to have my own copy. Excellent!

No comments about The Crucifixion in American Art.

No comments about The Passion of Christ. (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part 6).

No comments about The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy, and Luxury in Paris, England, and the Gaelic West (The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture).