Method, Meaning, Mystery
Timothy Verdon
- Pages: approx. 312 p.
- Size:220 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:8 b/w, 281 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2025
- € 150,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-62166-1
- Hardback
- Forthcoming (Dec/25)
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The present volume is the first of eight that read Christian art and architecture in relation to Scripture and exegesis, to theology, to liturgy, and to devotional piety.
Director of the Museo dell’Opera dell Duomo, Florence, Monsignor Timothy Verdon, a Canon of the city’s cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, is also Director of the Office of Sacred Art of the Florentine Archdiocese and former Consultor of the Vatican Commission of Church Heritage. Author of numerous books and articles on Christian art, Verdon, who has a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and has been a Fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti (Florence), is Robert and Katherine Burke Instructor in Art History at Stanford University’s Bing Center in Florence, Italy. Verdon, who has organized major exhibitions at Turin, Washington, D. C., Seoul and New York City, furnished the installation project of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, enlarged and entirely renovated in 2012–2015.
The present volume is the first of eight that read Christian art and architecture in relation to Scripture and exegesis, to theology, to liturgy, and to devotional piety. Entitled Method and Meaning, it focusses on constants in the two millennia since artists began to interpret what Christians believe and experience. Its goal is to suggest an interdisciplinary approach suited to the variety of works produced in that temporal span.
Author’s Foreword
I The Visible Word
II Images of Ideas
III Images and Spaces for the Liturgy
IV Art and Devotion
V The Influence of Non-Ecclesial Culture
VI Tradition
VII ‘Sacred’, ‘Religious’, ‘Moralising’
VIII The Mother of God
IX The Last Things
X Seeing, Believing, Understanding
Bibliographic Note
Name Index