SE ADUCE NUMAI LA COMANDA.
In this gorgeously illustrated volume, Sed-Rajna and her team of historians, archaeologists, and art and architecture experts guide readers through nearly 4,000 years of Jewish culture and art, reaping the harvest of recent archaeological finds and new, insightful scholarship. Perpetually persecuted and on the move, Jews built synagogues wherever they settled, incorporating the aesthetics of Hellenistic and oriental culture into their wood and stone carvings, mosaics, and frescoes. Prohibited from practicing many crafts, including gold-and silversmithing, in medieval Europe, Jewish artists channeled their creative and spiritual energies into portable treasures, particularly handwritten and illustrated books; but when European Jewish communities were stable, Jewish artists and artisans created glorious ceremonial objects, paintings, and sculpture, and, naturally, built magnificent synagogues. As Sed-Rajna and company proceed through the centuries, moving from the astonishingly fresh paintings of the Dura-Europos synagogue, built on the bank of the Euphrates in the third century, to modern and contemporary artists, the vitality and resiliency of the Jewish tradition flowers beneath our rapt gaze.
Format:
640 p., hardback
Anul apariţiei:
2002
fond special / librărie / colecţie particulară / anticariat /
