Herbert L. Kessler Books
Picturing The Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
By Jeffrey Spier, Herbert L. Kessler, With Contributions By Mary Charles-Murray
Picturing the Bible explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become...
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The Poetry and Paintings of the First Bible of Charles the Bald (Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts)
By Paul Edward Dutton, Herbert L. Kessler
The sumptuously decorated First Bible of Charles the Bald may well be the most famous of all medieval manuscripts. The national library of France catalogs it as Number 1 among its thousands of Lati...
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Spiritual seeing
"In Spiritual Seeing, Kessler explores ways in which the medieval debate about the functions and limits of images influenced the production of sacred art. Offering a new interpretation of Christian...
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