Blessed and Beautiful (Mint First Edition)

Robert Kiely

ISBN 10: 0300162774 / ISBN 13: 9780300162776

Published by Yale University Press, 2010

About this Item

New Haven: Yale (2010). First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box. Purchased new and never opened. ART. You cannot find a better copy. 344 pages, with general index, list of works of art reproduced (arranged by saint). The discussion by Harvard Professor Emeritus of English Kiely of the depiction of saints in Italian Renaissance art is illustrated throughout with color photographs of the art.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blessed and Beautiful (Mint First Edition)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300162774
• ISBN 13: 9780300162776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

A profound, witty, and informative account of the lives of the saints depicted in the devotional art of the Renaissance

This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the lives of the saints and the images of them painted by Renaissance artists in Italy. Robert Kiely, a distinguished scholar of modernist literature and a historian and critic of exceptional sensibility, has a keen eye and uncanny ability to capture details of significance and to prompt the reader to look again and to see with fresh eyes that the lives of saints and the Renaissance depictions of them are anything but dull, uniform, or narrowly orthodox. His beautifully written and thoughtful book treats saints seriously as human religious figures (not icons of perfection), brought to life by great Italian paintings in dialogue with scripture, legend, and poetry.

Wise, learned, and readable, and offering a rare combination of insight into religion, literature, and art, this ravishingly illustrated and vividly written volume should be by your side whenever you pick up a classic text, look at a Renaissance painting, or spend a few moments in private meditation or prayer.

About the Author

Robert Kiely is professor emeritus of English, Harvard University. His books include The Romantic Novel in England; Beyond Egotism: The Fiction of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence; and Reverse Tradition, Postmodern Fiction and the Nineteenth-Century Novel.