Irene Earls
Artists of the Renaissance
Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press,
2003.
240 pp.; 15 color ills.; 26 b/w ills.
Cloth
$59.95
(0313319375)
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For some there is a paradox in the fact that Bob Jones University, a Christian-fundamentalist institution that bills itself as the bastion of “old-time religion” based on the absolute authority of the Bible, should be a repository for one of the best collections of Catholic art in the United States. In the words of Henry Hope, who first introduced the university’s museum to the public (“The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Art,” Art Journal...