How To Read Bible Stories and Myths in Art

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In this highly visual volume, Patrick De Rynck presents readers with the history of Western civilisation, using masterpieces to illustrate how great painters depicted some of the best-known stories from the Bible and ancient mythology.

Presenting a cross-section of work, De Rynck examines how artists like Rubens, Rembrandt, and Titian re-rendered these scenes using their own experiences, ideas, and inspirations. How to Read Bible Stories and Myths in Art takes an all-encompassing look at a niche body of work and highlights how artists have managed to tap into our collective imagination with their representations.

Publisher Ludion

Number of pages 360

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Some book reviews
Amazon customer James Tabor
“That Rynck includes both Bible stories as well as figures from ‘mythology’, mostly Greek, makes it all the more fascinating as a comparative endeavor. I also like Rynck’s method. He focuses on a single painter/painting and then breaks it down into its components, trying to get at the innovations, intents, presuppositions, and interpretations of the artist, placing each in a wider art-history context. This is the kind of book one can ‘dip into’.”