The Philosophical Meaning of Great Works of Art: Medieval to Modern

Have you ever wondered what Leonardo da Vinci meant to tell us in the Mona Lisa, or in his enigmatic self-portrait? Why Picasso painted so that a woman and a chair could hardly be told apart, and why modern art in general grew so strange? Why Baroque painting is so charged with emotion, why Rembrandt renders a face as if it were a photograph, what lies behind Renoir's impressionism, and why Van Gogh's canvases can feel so vacant and artificial? Why does the Madonna dominate the early second millennium and nearly vanish from the later part of it? And is there a philosophical key a Christian can use to read these works?

In this book Robert Sungenis leads a tour through the history of art from the medievals to the moderns, showing what each was trying to say. It is illustrated throughout in full color.