| Jesus the Christ, Collector's Edition
| A Study of the Messiah and His Mission according to Holy Scriptures both Ancient and ModernbyJames E. TalmageOne of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints1922
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| The Brick Bible: A New Spin on the Old Testament
| "The Good Book" meets "The Brick"Brendan Powell Smith has spent the last decade creating nearly 5,000 scenes from the bible--with Legos. His wonderfully original sets are featured on his website thebricktestament.com, but for the first time 1,400 photographs of these creative designs--depicting the Old Testament from Earth's creation to the Books of Kings--are brought together in book format. The Holy Bible is complex; sometimes dark, and other times joyous, and Smith's masterful work is ...More
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| Thomas Kinkade Disney Collection: 2012 Wall Calendar
| American Dream Wall Calendar
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| Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God (Active Prayer Series)
| Need help communicating with God? Maybe you hunger to know God better. Maybe you love color. Maybe you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, a distractable or impatient soul, or a word-weary pray-er. Perhaps you struggle with a short attention span, a restless body, or a tendency to live in your head. This new prayer form can take as little or as much time as you have or want to commit, from 15 minutes to a weekend retreat."A new prayer form gives God an invitation and a new door to penetr...More
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| Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light: 2012 Wall Calendar
| Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light Wall Calendar: Thomas Kinkade the Painter of Light, creates glorious paintings that celebrate family, tradition, community, and the beauty of the natural world. His remarkable body of work is collected and cherished throughout the world. Thomas Kinkade acknowledges life's simple pleasures and special moments through his paintings. Each full-color monthly spread in the Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light 2012 Wall Calendar features a life-affirming painting, including ...More
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| Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
| In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the massive project. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling recounts the four extraordinary years Michelangelo spent laboring over the vast ceiling while the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Ro...More
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| The Illuminated Rumi 2011 Wall Calendar
| Based on One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi, this calendar is an interweaving of poetry and art: a magnificent meeting of ancient tradition and modern interpretation that uniquely captures the spiritual wealth of Rumi's teachings. Michael Green's magical art, along with his sensitive renderings of Rumi's poetry, makes this work a classic guide to the life of the soul for a whole new generation of seekers. Rumi is still this country's most-read poet, and a major spokesman for open, boundary...More
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| The Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey
| Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) is a timeless guide to the art of living. Its central figure, the Master, lives in harmony with the Tao, the irreducible essence of the universe. Surrendering to it as the Master teaches, we feel whole. Emptying ourselves of judgment and desire, we discover the universal truths within: Without wanting, we find peace; if we let go of what we love, our love becomes present.Stephen Mitchell's acclaimed translation of this age-old text has sold mor...More
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| Concerning the Spiritual in Art
| Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of Modernist art theory. A brilliant philosophical treatise and an emphatic avant-garde tract, it provides the theoretical underpinnings for Kandinsky's own work and that of his associates in the Blaue Reiter movement. While Michael Sadler...More
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| The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
| From bone fetishism in the ancient world to painted skulls in Austria and Bavaria: an unusual and compelling work of cultural history.It is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces of art created from human bone. These unique structures have been pushed into the footnotes of history; they were part of a dialogue with death that is no...More
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| Art and the Bible: Two Essays
| Many Christians, wary of creating graven images, have steered clear of artistic creativity. But the Bible offers a robust affirmation of the arts. The human impulse to create reflects our being created in the image of a creator God.Art and the Bible has been a foundational work for generations of Christians in the arts. In this book's classic essays, Francis Schaeffer first examines the scriptural record of the use of various art forms, and then establishes a Christian perspective on art. With c...More
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| Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light with Scripture: 2012 Wall Calendar
| Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light with Scripture Wall Calendar: Thomas Kinkade the Painter of Light, creates glorious paintings that celebrate family, tradition, community, and the beauty of the natural world. His remarkable body of work is collected and cherished throughout the world. Thomas Kinkade believes his mission as an artist is to create glimpses of a world that is tranquil, peaceful, and full of the beauty of God's creation. The Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light with Scripture 2012 Wall Ca...More
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| Thich Nhat Hanh 2011 Wall Calendar
| Taoist symbols, ancient imagery and the gentle reflection of nature meet and merge in Nicholas Kirsten-Honshin's artwork. The Thich Nhat Hanh 2011 Wall Calendar combines Honshin's graceful paintings with the words of renowned Zen master, peace activist and author of over 60 books, Thich Nhat Hanh. Nicholas Kirsten-Honshin is influenced by the sacred meditational space of the transcendental archetypal symbols of Christianity, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism as well as the shamanistic practices of...More
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| The Big Poster Book of Hindu Deities: 12 Removable Prints
| Following the success of his Little Book of Hindu Deities and Ramayana: Divine Loophole, illustrator Sanjay Patel selected twelve popular Hindu deities to feature in this gorgeous print portfolio. Each full-color poster shows off Patel s cute-meets-modern graphic style, bringing Ganesha, Kali, Shiva, and nine other gods and goddesses into a 21st century Technicolor world. Colorful, playful, and iconic, the posters will be equally at home on a dorm room wall, office cubicle, or framed in a living...More
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| Paintings of Leonardo da Vinci formatted for Kindle
| This is a collection of twenty two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci formatted for the Kindle, with descriptions and dates.Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters...More
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| The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
| An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by pe...More
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| Saints 2012 Wall Calendar: A Year in Faith and Art
| Includes bonus advent calendar!Returning for its fourth successful year, this calendar offers blessings throughout the year. Inspired by Abrams' bestselling book Saints: A Year in Faith and Art, the calendar highlights more than 40 saints and paintings by old masters, including Peter Paul Rubens, el Greco, Anthony van Dyck, and Fra Angelico.
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| Hebrew Illuminations 2011 Wall Calendar
| The ancient and enduring spirit of Jewish tradition comes alive in the Hebrew Illuminations 2010-2011 Wall Calendar. Jewish artist Adam Rhine has created ornate, highly detailed Judaic paintings in watercolor, colored pencil and acrylic. Each work is crafted to glorify the infinite nobility of the Lord and to visually bring forth His energy within different combinations and intricate patterns. The sheer elegance of their construction conveys wisdom and ideas. This unique calendar features...More
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| Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church (A Guide to Imagery)
| An icon (from the Greek word "eikon," "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic, rather than literal and narrative. Indeed, every attitude, pose, and color depicted in an icon has a preci...More
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| Tibetan Calligraphy: How to Write the Alphabet and More
| In Tibetan Calligraphy , Sanje Elliott shows us how to capture the elegance and grace of Tibetan calligraphy without prior knowledge of either Tibetan language or calligraphy. This beautiful book includes many prayers, mantras, and seed syllables to copy and study. Perfect for practitioners, artists, and anyone interested in the Tibetan language.
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