The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance by Adam B. Seligman, Richard Viladesau, Michael Puett, Bennett Simon, Robert P. Weller

The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance

Adam B. Seligman, Richard Viladesau, Michael Puett, Bennett Simon, Robert P. Weller

214 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

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From the earliest period of its existence, Christianity has been recognized as the "religion of the cross." Some of the great monuments of Western art are representations of the brutal torture and execution of Christ. Despite the horror of crucifi...

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