Seven-sacrament art -- the representation of all seven sacraments --first appeared in Europe as an occasional subject in the 14th century, but by the middle of the 15th it had become widely popular. In this interdisciplinary study, Ann Eljenholm Nichols provides an analysis of the iconography of the sacraments. The book begins with a comprehensive survey of all known continental work, some of it never before published, but it focuses on English work. Nichols argues that before 1450 there existed an international iconography of the sacraments, but that thereafter English work diverges so...
Seven-sacrament art -- the representation of all seven sacraments --first appeared in Europe as an occasional subject in the 14th century, but by the ...
