Includes many of the best-loved New Testament parables, richly illustrated with devotional images from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and nineteenth-century artists. Provides fresh insight into the many ways in which Christ used everyday people and events to convey sprirtual principles with new power.
A pictorial history of American domestic architecture that covers English Colonial styles; European influences; frontier and folk housing; mansions, estates, and plantations; vernacular styles; the Victorian Era; and early Modernism, with historical overviews for each period.