The Liturgy of Love: Images from the Song of Songs in the Art of Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt

by Irving Lavin and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

Three essays explore three great masterworks of European art that visualize the relationship between spiritual and physical love expressed passionately and graphically in the biblical Song of Songs. Marilyn Aronberg Lavin writes on Cimabue's vast fresco cycle of the Virgin in the apse of San Francesco in Assisi, at the threshold of the Renaissance, where the Franciscan belief in the bodily Assumption is couched in terms of the Old Testament love...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091368936X
• ISBN13: 9780913689363
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 10.5"