Search Results: CHURCH ART from Chilton Books

London: SPCK, nd (c.1874).. Ex libris. " This volume contains some notes of the traditionary subjects of Early Christian art as far as the first Italian Renaissance." Pp.12/382/2(ads), 13 black & white illustrations including frontispiece, library stamp(Blue Coat School, Chester) to title. Blue cloth, gilt title and motif to front, gilt title to spine. G+.

London: Octopus Books, 1972.. 1st English ed. Survey of Christian art. Pp. 158, 95 colour illustrations. Cream cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w has slight creasing to spine. VG/G+.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.. 1st ed. A Nadfas Guide. Covers brasses,memorials, wall paintings, textiles, stone, metal & woodwork and some architectural terms necessary for their description. Pp. 9/246, b/w line drawings throughout. Pbk, some creaes to front cover. G+.

London: A.R.Mowbray & Co.,1912.. 1st imp. The Arts of the Church series. 15.5cms x 11cms. Pp.16/198, 46 b/w plates including 2 drawings by the author. Red cloth, gilt decorated title to front, gilt title to spine, spine a little dulled with wear to top and tail. G+.

New York: George Braziller, 1970. 0807605786. 1st edition. "The manuscript from which a selection of pages is here reproduced, is outstanding among the many fine books illuminated in the Netherlands in the late fifteenth century. The technical accomplishment of the artist, who is known as the "Master of Mary of Burgundy," has already made him one of the best known and most admired of medieval illuminators." 14cms x 10cms x 2cms. Unpaginated. Many beautifully illustrated plates and pages of manuscript. Owner's name to front free endpaper. Blue reproduction leather with gilt decoration and title to spine. With slipcase which is slightly rubbed. VG/VG. .

London: Scala Books, 1992.. 1st ed. "This book on the newly born Jesus in art quotes the biblical texts and explains the religious symbolism associated with the subject in Renaissance and Baroque painting." 23cms. x 17.5cms. Pp. 64, colour frontispiece + further colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Illustrated laminated boards. VG.

Windsor: Luff & Sons, Printers, 1959.. Written by the Vicar of St.Mark's, Regent Park; Rural Dean of St.Pancras. "This monograph attempts to give the chief historical facts in the lives of those commemorated in the Reredos of St.Mark's, Regent Park." Pp.31. Stiff grey card cover. VG.

Vatican, 1931.. Vatican Edition. Includes: Library; Borgia Apartments; Tapestries and Geographical Maps; Stanze and Loggie of Raphael; Chapel of Fra Angelico; Sistine Chapel. Pp.viii/126, 22 plans and maps, owner's details to title page and opposite endpaper. Red cloth, gilt title to front. G+.

London: The Association in the United Kingdom of the Order of St Michael of the Wing, 2001.. A study of the panels painted by the Portuguese artist Nuno Goncalves, thought to depict a ceremony honouring the King's brother, the Infante Dom Fernando, Duke of Beja, with the office of High Constable of Portugal in 1466. The corresponding juxtaposition of Royal fathers and their sons oare of considerable relevance to the story which the Panels tell. Pp.60, first half is in English and Portuguese text to final half, 2 pages of black & white illustrations to centre, colour illustrations to inside covers. Paperback. VG.

London: SCM, 1957.. First English edition. "At the beginning of his career Rembrandt was influenced by the theatrical art of the Coutner-Reformation and used the Bible merely as a storehouse of subjects to paint. Gradually, in the tragedies of his own life, Rembrandt developed a style which in its quality makes him unique as an interpreter of the Bible as a whole." Pp.193, 32 b/w plates, gift message to fep. Grey cloth, d/w slightly rubbed with small edge tears. G+/G+.

National Organization of Hellenic Handicrafts, 1972.. Two of the great craftsmen in the art of silvering - Athanasios Tzemoures and George Diamantis Bafas. "The ecclesiastical art of silvering is still an unknown chapter in our folklore art....The artistic flourishing evidenced in Greece during the 18th century caused a rapid growth in the art of silvering." 28cms x 23cms. Pp.63, 43 colour and black & white plates. Paperback. VG.