In the name of the son : the life of Jesus in art, from the nativity to the passion / Vittorio Sgarbi ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

From the late medieval period through the Renaissance and the Baroque era, the task of conferring an image onto Christ--whose physical aspect was never described in Scripture--fell to artists, who depicted him at every stage of life and in a multitude of roles. In the 350 images in this lavishly ill...

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