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It is easy to admire the beauty of great works of art, but more difficult to understand the precise significance, which is disguised in symbols. "The Secret Language of Art" provides the key. It is divided by theme into five chapters, including: Classic Myth and Legend; The Bible and the Life of Christ; Saints and their Miracles; History; and, Literature and the Arts. Each chapter opens with a collection on some of the most famous paintings, each accompanied by an illuminating commentary and an analysis of its most significant figures and symbols. The second part of each chapter comprises of a thematic directory to figures and symbols and interspersed with illustrated feature panels - it is the ideal companion for all art lovers, gallery goers and students of art history.
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Sarah Carr-Gomm studied History of Art at the University of East Anglia and took an MA in the Renaissanceat Birbeck College, University of London. She was head of Art History at Mander Portman Woodward college, one of London's leading tutorial colleges, from 1976 until 1988. In 1983 she founded Art History Abroad, a company which organises educational courses in Europe. Jennifer Speake, M.Phil. (Oxon), author of the commentaries in chapters two and three, is a writer, editor and lexicographer. Her publications include The Dent Dictionary of Symbols in Christian Art and The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (with Thomas G. Bergin).
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- PublisherDuncan Baird Publishers
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1844838595
- ISBN 13 9781844838592
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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