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Nature and Its Symbols (Guide to Imagery Series)
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Nature and Its Symbols (Guide to Imagery Series) Details

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 704.946
EAN: 9780892367726
ISBN: 0892367725
Label: Getty Publications
Manufacturer: Getty Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Publisher: Getty Publications
Studio: Getty Publications


Nature and Its Symbols (Guide to Imagery Series) Reviews

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Comment: I was disappointed in this book because the format is too small to do the art justice. Such a beautiful book with wonderful information should have been published in a larger format. Difficult to see the detail.

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Summary: A wonderful book on art !
Comment: In "Guide to imagery series" books I found the books on art
that give an exceptionally clear presentation of the subject.
I bought 6 books ("Nature and Its Symbols" among them)
and I really found what I was searching for. You can study Old and
New Testament as well as ancient mythology reading these books,
understand the role of different details, symbols drawn on each picture. Inside each book there is a short description of the specific topic followed by full-colour reproductions of the pictures on this topic from different museums all over the world with detailed explanations to each picture. It was amazing to find and understand the meaning of different pictures I saw in art galleries in St.Petersburg, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Venice, Naples and other places. Really a great selection of art works is presented in each of these books. I strongly recommend all these books to everybody who wants to understand the meaning of the pictures and get a nice art collection at home.


Editorial Review for Nature and Its Symbols (Guide to Imagery Series):

Nature and Its Symbols is the fifth volume in the series A Guide to Imagery, reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes chapters on plants, flowers, fruits, and animals of the earth, air, and water, as well as fantastical creatures such as centaurs, griffons, and dragons. The vivid illustrations, which include paintings and tapestries from some of the world's premier museums, are accompanied by texts that offer a careful analysis of the artists' depictions of the natural world. Each entry discusses the symbolic significance of the particular plant, fruit, or animal portrayed, its mythic or literary origins, and the episodes or individuals associated with it. These salient points are also called out in summary form within each entry, making the information easily accessible. The reader discovers, for example, that the iris can represent Jesus or the purity of the Virgin Mary as well as the kings of France or the city of Florence. The monkey, which can be symbolic of the devil, heresy, or bad temper, is also associated with the three wise men who travelled to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus.



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