Death and resurrection in art / Enrico De Pascale ; translated by Anthony Shugaar.

  • De Pascale, Enrico.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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About this work

Also known as

Morte e resurrezione. English

Description

"This book will examine the iconography of death as well as that of its symbolic opposite - resurrection and rebirth."-Introduction.

Publication/Creation

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

384 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 20 cm.

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Contributors

Contents

The blood and the arrow -- Vanitas vanitatum -- Eros and Thanatos -- Between heaven and earth -- Mistress of the world -- Cult of the dead -- Afterworld -- Rebirth.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-384) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JIB.AL
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ISBN

  • 9780892369478
  • 0892369477