{"product_id":"sin-9781857096651","title":"Sin","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joost Joustra\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: National Gallery London\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: National Gallery London\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engaging and accessible account of how sin has been depicted in European art for centuries\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The depiction of sin has been fundamental to European visual culture for hundreds of years, especially--but not only--in Christian art. Addressing the mutable and often ambiguous representation of sin, this book highlights its theological underpinnings, cultural afterlife, and contradictory and controversial aspects from the 15th to the 21st century. Drawing on paintings from the National Gallery and elsewhere, including pictures by Cranach, Gossaert, and Velázquez, as well as contemporary art and sculpture, the author explores complex theological ideas--Original Sin, the Immaculate Conception, and confession, for example--that show familiar human behavior through moralizing or seductive images; in the process, \u003ci\u003eSin\u003c\/i\u003e shows how art can blur the boundaries between our modern categories, religious and secular. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished by National Gallery Company\/Distributed by Yale University Press \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition Schedule: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Gallery, London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (April 15-July 5, 2020)","brand":"National Gallery London","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47573365129367,"sku":"9781857096651","price":1776.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781857096651.webp?v=1774892657","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sin-9781857096651","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}