Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia
Using a 50,000 image archive as a foundation, a team of scholars from a variety of institutions and with specialties in medieval studies, architectural and social history, Christian iconography, decorative and liturgical arts, the craft, creative reuse, and historic preservation of stained glass was assembled to study the windows of the more than 400 churches, chapels, and institutions in the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
The Jesuits and the Arts 1540-1773
The Jesuits and the Arts, 1540–1773 is the first survey ever published of the Jesuits’ global artistic enterprise in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, from the foundation of the Society of Jesus in 1540 to its suppression in 1773. Here the Jesuits’ extraordinary commitment to the arts—the subject of a groundswell of recent scholarly work—comes spectacularly alive, with 476 full color, high resolution images of Jesuit buildings, paintings, sculpture, theatrical sets, and music from around the globe, many of them published here for the first time.
Adrien Gambart’s Emblem Book (1664)
The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols
This volume includes the late Elisabeth Stopp’s previously unpublished study of the emblem book of Adrien Gambart (1660-68), an introductory essay by Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslè that updates and supplements Stopp’s work, and a facsimile of Gambart’s emblem book. This remarkable book was inspired by the life and writings of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Philadelphia: A New Urban Direction, 2nd Edition
Office of the City Controller, City of Philadelphia
Jonathan Saidel
Foreword by Edward G. Rendell
Philadelphia: A New Urban Direction poses the question: What must city government do to make the City of Philadelphia a preferred place to live, work, and play into the next century? Philadelphia: A New Urban Direction, Second Edition builds upon the impressive work of the initial publication and presents an update of Philadelphia’s economic, budgetary, and social condition.
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels
Volume I: The Infancy Narratives (2003)
Volume II: The Passion Narratives (2008)
Volume III: The Infancy Narratives (2005)
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, composed by Jerome Nadal (1507-80), St. Ignatius Loyola’s closest collaborator in the early days of the Society of Jesus, was first published in Antwerp in 1595 (a second edition followed the same year, and a third edition in 1607).