Eric Gill was perhaps the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving.A wonderfully detailed account of his personality - so vivid; you feel you know just what it would have been like to visit him at one of his patriarchal communes . . . A Dominican; dining with the Gills; once thought he saw a nimbus shining around Erics head. Despite the sexual improprieties it unearths; MacCarthys authoritative biography allows you to understand how someone might have thought that. John Carey; Sunday Times
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A highly readable scholarly work on the theology behind renaissance depictions of the crucifixionBy John B ChambersI recommend this book for readers interested either in theology or in renaissance art. Professor Viladesau gives art historians detailed explanations of the theology that informed renaissance artists when they depicted Christs passion. His citations of the original works are a handy reference. For theologians. he has a discerning eye of the art itself.To keep costs down. the reproductions are in black and white. Readers will find themselves consulting suggested web sites to see the art enlarged and in color.J. Chambers
