Christian Art Sarah Dees Rainy Days

Rainy Days

This chunky book invites children to explore the magic of nursery rhymes and fairy tales

the perfect way to sing and play

That makes each and every human brain a contender for the most complex system in the universe

and the contemporary works influenced by them

Christian Art Sarah Dees Rainy DaysPalm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier mache figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such, distinguishes them from other works? These are the questions at the center of this book, which is at once a sumptuously illustrated survey of Christian art over time and across the globe and a probing study of what "Christian