Author

Publication

2020 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

24,000 words, Guess

Page Count

96 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781857096651
  • ISBN-101857096657
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019953614
  • OCLC Control Number1121602501
  • Better World Books9781857096651
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Classifications

  • LCCN8243.S52
  • LCCN8243.S52 J68 2020

Description

The depiction of sin has been fundamental to European visual culture for hundreds of years, especially-but not only-in Christian art. Addressing the mutable and often ambiguous representation of sin, this book highlights its theological underpinnings, cultural afterlife, and contradictory and controversial aspects from the 15th to the 21st century. Drawing on paintings from the National Gallery and elsewhere, including pictures by Cranach, Gossaert, and Velazquez, as well as contemporary art and sculpture, the author explores complex theological ideas-Original Sin, the Immaculate Conception, and confession, for example-that show familiar human behavior through moralizing or seductive images; in the process, Sin shows how art can blur the boundaries between our modern categories, religious and secular.00Exhibition: National Gallery, London, UK (15.04.-15.07.2020).

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