Fair Jesus : the Gospels According To Italian Painters 1300-1650 by Robert Kiely

Robert Kiely walks through important scenes of the Gospels, pausing with great painters to consider Jesus, how he looks, how he stands or sits, how he interacts with other figures and the viewer, how his actions and teachings are interpreted and translated by artists more concerned with design than analysis, more in forms than words. Painters and their paintings are the guides—beguiling, challenging, consoling, instructive—displaying colors, skill, and perspective while beckoning the viewer back to scripture and to the Jesus “who accepted to be seen.”

“Kiely's beautifully written and illustrated book is an extended meditation, a visio divina focused upon classic Italian paintings and their scriptural sources. It's a book born of love—of the art and its Gospel context—but, above all, of the person who illuminates every page.” —Paul J. Contino, Pepperdine University  

  6.4 in x 9.3 in   Hardcover 288 pp