TY - BOOK AU - Toman,Rolf AU - Warland,Rainer AU - Bednorz,Achim TI - Ars sacra: Christian art and architecture of the Western world from the very beginning up until today SN - 9783833151408 (hbk.) AV - N7830 .A7713 2010 U1 - 704.9482 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Köln, Basingstoke PB - h.f. ullmann, GeoCenter [distributor] KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - History KW - Church architecture KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Pictorial works N1 - Late antiquity, Byzantium / Rainer Warland -- Early Middle Ages / Harald Wolter-van dem Knesebeck -- Romanesque / Uwe Geese -- Gothic / Bruno Klein -- Renaissance, Mannerism / Barbara Borngässer -- Baroque, Rococo / Barbara Borngässer, Pablo de la Riestra -- Neoclassicism, Romanticicism, Historicism / Maria-Christina Boerner -- Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Modern Age / Bruno Boerner N2 - Ars Sacra is an unique tribute to 2000 years of Christian art, architecture and spirituality. This glorious tome takes the reader on a tour through seventeen centuries of sacral art, architecture, and culture, from the late antiquity to the middle ages, renaissance, baroque, art nouveau to works by contemporary artists such as Marc Chagall and Gerhard Richter ER -