Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based. Combined here in a single volume are religious, classical, and historical themes, figures of moral allegory, and characters from romantic poetry that appeared throughout paintings and sculpture in Western art before and after the Renaissance.

Author: James Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/13/2019
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780367097059

About the Author
James Hall passed away in August 2007. A noted scholar and historian of art, he was the author of several works, including "The Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art" (Westview Press, 1996).