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"The birth of Qur'anic calligraphy was a major event in the early history of Islam. In a few decades, it raised the Arabs and their language from the remote fringes of the civilised world to its very heart. Alain George brings together manuscript,…

Surreal paintings combine the detail of anatomical illustrations with the spiritual images of Buddhism.

Few artistic terms have had such a confused history as the word "Gothic." Andrew Martindale approaches this complex period by first setting up terms with which to deal with it. He considers Gothic art basically as the style that developed in the…

During excavation work in 1955, a unique discovery of early Christian art was made in Rome. Below the city was a catacomb system containing a unique and previously unknown collection of paintings and decoration. This book tells of the discovery and…

"Focusing on how spiritual initiation takes place in Western esoteric religious, literary, and artistic traditions from antiquity to the present, Restoring Paradise provides an introduction to Western esotericism, including early modern esoteric…