Field Guide to the Saints - Softcover

Kate Rushford Murray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979898706 ISBN 13: 9780979898709

Publisher: KRM Guides, 2007

Synopsis

A Field Guide to the Saints: The Traveller's Illustrated Handbook To Church Art provides a fun and easy way to identify the saints found in churches and museums, and to learn their stories. Especially designed for travellers visiting southern Europe (but relevant anywhere that saints are found), this book allows you to solve the mystery of "Who is that saint?". It's a thrill to decode these images using the easy-to-read identification "clue list," and doing so can make visits to churches and museums a truly fun experience, a game anyone can play. If you are headed to Europe, bring this delightful, authoritative, and practical book along! You'll love reading the stories of the saints. The material is engaging and slightly irreverent, but always informative. "Absolutely Delightful in it's whimsical and informative details on the Lives of the Saints!" - Helen H. Bayly, Florence Convocation on Art and Clutural Initiatives, Firenze, Italia.

About this title

About the Author

Kate Rushford Murray grew up in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and attended Sacred Heart High School in Newport, VT. Her college career took her from the University of North Carolina to graduate schools at the University of Connecticut and the University of Illinois, where she earned a doctoral degree in Music Education, and then to Santa Clara University and the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned a second doctoral degree, in Religious Studies. She was an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California at Los Angeles ( 78 83), a software trainer for Frame Technology, and an independent consultant in Gilroy, CA, while raising the two Murray children, Hannah and Paul. She has written numerous articles and led frequent discussions in the fields of both music and religious art, and serves on a number of boards, including the Women s Fund of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (Piscataqua Region), The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH, and the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH. With the children now grown, Kate lives on the Seacoast of New Hampshire with her husband David, a cat named Gypsy, Joe the Sheltie and her Lusitano mare, Petala, which means little flower and not kneecap.

Review

I was delighted to find the book easy to understand and a fun read. I was always intimidated by my lack of knowlege about the paintings I would see in museums and churches on my travels, but my first visit to a rather famous church - armed with the book - provided much entertainment for the group I was with as we started to see the attributes in the paintings then finding them in the "Object Clue List" (a very clever key to identifying the saints) After that it was easy to find and read all about the saints and compare the attributes in the beautiful pictures. The book was the hit of the afternoon and everyone agreed they had never spent such an intimate and enjoyable time on a church tour before. --Barbara Morris

What a gem of a book! If you've ever stood in front of a painting, puzzling over the depiction of a mysterious individual with a halo, this book is for you. You'll learn how to discern a saint's identity from various objects that are typically pictured with each saint. After reading this book, I pulled out my coffee table art books, searching for saints to identify. The index in this book makes it easy--absorbing and educational for adults, and a fun way to help children understand art. Along with the original artwork accompanying each saint's description, it would have been great to include an historical painting to illustrate the use of saintly objects throughout history. Highly recommended. --Julie Oliver

What a gem of a book! If you've ever stood in front of a painting, puzzling over the depiction of a mysterious individual with a halo, this book is for you. You'll learn how to discern a saint's identity from various objects that are typically pictured with each saint. After reading this book, I pulled out my coffee table art books, searching for saints to identify. The index in this book makes it easy--absorbing and educational for adults, and a fun way to help children understand art. Along with the original artwork accompanying each saint's description, it would have been great to include an historical painting to illustrate the use of saintly objects throughout history. Highly recommended. --Julie Oliver

About this edition

• Publisher: KRM Guides
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0979898706
• ISBN 13: 9780979898709
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 122
• Illustrator: Krystyna Robbins