Religious

Prizewinning author Harr embarks on a spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as "The Taking of Christ." The fascinating details of the artist Caravaggio's strange, turbulent career and the astonishing beauty of his work come to life in these pages.An Italian village on a hillt... More

The book takes us on a journey of the loves of Krishna, his lilas, kridas, his madhurya and above all the raas lila. But Krishna is not only for the royalty and nobility, he belongs to the people, the potter and the puppeteer, the bride and the mother, for he is celebrated at every village fair and ... More

For as long as space endures As long as suffering remains, Until then may I, too, abide To dispel the misery of the world. - Eighth-century Buddhist master Shatideva's A guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of life.... More

George Michell provides a pioneering and richly illustrated introduction to the architecture, sculpture and painting of Southern India under the Vijayanagara empire and the states that succeeded it. This period, encompassing some four hundred years, from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, was... More

People have been searching for meaning in Islamic art for centuries. This book explores the iconography of Islamic art, presenting a diverse range of approaches to the subject.Despite this variety, there is an overarching theme: the linking of the interpretation of objects to textual sources. This r... More

The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments--including Stonehenge-- were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Students of prehistory have long found the highly theoretical interpretations of the period perplexing and contradictory. Starting in the Mesoli... More

Here-in a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events-is the first extended study of the history of Florentine and Sienese painting in the later fourteenth century, in the period following the plague of the Black D... More

"The Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan plateau in peninsular India flourished from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Ruling from their fortified capitals, the sultans built sumptuous palaces, mosques and tombs and patronised artists who produced outstanding paintings, textiles and objects. Man... More

Photos Of The Gods examines the history of the printed image in India from its beginnings in the1870s to the present day. Using many intriguing and unfamiliar visuals, it showshow printed images have been pivotal to the constructions of new forms ofreligious identity and the struggle for politica... More

The rich Buddhist heritage of Tibet is a revelation of the depths of transic meditations of great Masters which have been translated into the majestic abundance of visive symbols.These symbols take the form either of images or of thanka scrolls painted on linen as wall as on silk.To afford an identi... More

Lalitavajrais manual is a fundamental contribution to the understanding of Buddhist iconography.It is one of the earliest pantheons by the famous Lcan-skya Incarnate Rol.pahi.rdo.rje or Lalitavajra who was the dominating lamaist figure at the manchu Court of K?ien-lung (1736-1795 AC).... More

The book, highlights the essential import of the innocuous-looking, yet enigmatic, diagrams called Yantras surfacing from the occult practices of the tantrics. It examines a range of tantric yantras, with their varieties, applications, modes of construction and above all their iconographic features.... More

A stunning guide to the spiritual power of Indian art, this volume features over 100 color photographs. Ajit Mookerjee, the author of numerous books on Indian art and religion, reveals the inward-seeking quality of the relationship with the divine that exemplifies Indian ritual art. 135 photos, 101 ... More

This volume shows the iconic richesse of deities,e.g.Vayu has twentytwo forms from India,Nepal,Tibet,Mongolia,China,Japan,and indonesia.Though some of them can be traced back to Classical texts,the others are derived from pantheons,paintings,sculptures and statuettes.... More