DANIEL MITSUI ~ ESSAYS and INFORMATION

DANIEL MITSUI ~ ESSAYS and INFORMATION

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This website, currently under construction, will eventually gather together my original essays as well as other resources, especially transcribed passages from out-of-print or hard-to-find books, concerning Catholic art and religion. I hope eventually to develop it into a comprehensive tutorial on sacred iconography in the Western tradition. This is a long-term project that has only just begun. Please visit this index frequently to see what has been added newly.

SACRED ART

Emile Mâle ~ General Characteristics of Mediæval Iconography

Emile Mâle ~ The Death of Mediæval Art

Emile Mâle ~ Ars moriendi (The Art of Dying)

Emile Mâle ~ Speculum humanæ salvationis and Biblia pauperum

William Durandus ~ The Sacred Vestments (Book III of the Rationale divinorum officiorum)

A.W.N. Pugin ~ On Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts

Denis of Fourna ~ Hermeneia (Manual for Painters)

Theophilus the Priest ~ De diversis artibus (On Divers Arts)

HISTORY

Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christians of Japan)

CURIOSITIES

Hucbald of St. Amand ~ Ecloga de calvis (In Praise of Bald Men)

Charles Waterton