Routledge Research in Art and Religion
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art and Religion is a new series focusing on religion and spirituality as examined by scholars working in the fields of art history and visual studies. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
The Dissemination of Saint George in Early Modern Art
1st Edition
By Alison C. Barker
February 10, 2025
Focusing on England, the German-speaking territories and the Italian peninsula, this book examines how Saint George’s image crossed boundaries and was disseminated. Alison Barker attempts to "dissolve" the boundary of the Alps through examination of images of Saint George, the "travelling" saint. ...
The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art
1st Edition
By Katherine T. Brown
October 14, 2024
In The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art, Katherine T. Brown explores the lore of the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the “true image” relic as factors in the Franciscans’ placement of her character into the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) as the Sixth Station, in both ...
Mormon Visual Culture and the American West
1st Edition
By Nathan Rees
October 07, 2024
This book explores the place of art in Latter-day Saint society during the first 50 years of the Utah settlement, beginning in 1847. Nathan Rees uncovers the critical role that images played in nineteenth-century Mormon religion, politics, and social practice. These artists not only ...
Sculpted Thresholds and the Liturgy of Transformation in Medieval Lombardy
1st Edition
By Gillian B. Elliott
October 07, 2024
This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted “gateways” of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy. Gillian B. Elliott examines the liturgical connection between the ciborium over the altar (the most sacred threshold ...
Iconotropy and Cult Images from the Ancient to Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Jorge Tomás García, Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez
October 04, 2024
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which the form and meaning of images are modified and adapted for a new context is defined by a large number of spiritual, religious, artistic, ...
The Orthodox Icon and Postmodern Art: Critical Reflections on the Christian Image and its Theology
1st Edition
By C.A. Tsakiridou
August 29, 2024
This study examines the theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography. C.A. Tsakiridou frees the Orthodox icon from iconological precepts that limit its aesthetic and expressive range. The book’s key argument is that...
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800
1st Edition
By Katherine T. Brown
July 30, 2024
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art. Based in the disciplines of art history, botany, and theology, this study focuses on selected works of art in which tree forms embody and reflect Christian themes. Through this ...
Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons: The Power of the Painted Gaze
1st Edition
By Andrew Paterson
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of ‘sacred portrait’ also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Graeco-Egyptian funerary ...
The Cults of Sainte Foy and the Cultural Work of Saints
1st Edition
By Kathleen Ashley
October 09, 2023
Bringing together artifacts, texts, and practices within an interpretive framework that stresses the cultural work performed by saints, Kathleen Ashley presents a comparative study of the cults of the medieval Sainte Foy at a number of the sites where she was especially venerated. This book ...
Aesthetic Theology in the Franciscan Tradition: The Senses and the Experience of God in Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Xavier Seubert, Oleg Bychkov
September 30, 2021
The book investigates the aesthetic theology embedded in the Franciscan artistic tradition. The novelty of the approach is in applying concepts gleaned from Franciscan textual sources to create a deeper understanding of how art in all its sensual forms was foundational to the Franciscan milieu. ...
Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art: The Transcultural Icon
1st Edition
By C.A. Tsakiridou
September 30, 2021
Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, ...
Tree of Jesse Iconography in Northern Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Susan L. Green
September 30, 2020
This book is the first detailed investigation to focus on the late medieval use of Tree of Jesse imagery, traditionally a representation of the genealogical tree of Christ. In northern Europe, from the mid-fifteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, it could be found across a wide range of media. ...