Titlebook: Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Art in Western Culture; Michael Mendillo Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) an

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Responses—Theological and Astronomicaling of astronomy, art and religion. While Schiller was not the first to assert that the constellations of antiquity should be challenged as highly inappropriate pagan icons, his predecessors had limited their reforms to the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Chapters . and . did the same, and essentially f

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Pagan Constellations in Christian Arturprising. The practice both preceded and continued well beyond the Schiller enterprise. Indeed, there are just too many examples to include in this chapter. To explore some of the better-known cases, six items of religious art are selected that include astronomical constellations as key to their th

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Beyond Constellations: Astronomical Components in Religious Artce in the Universe using multiple symbolic aids. In previous chapters, the Moon and the stars that form constellations have been the exclusive celestial features discussed in linkages between astronomy and religious art. In this chapter, the theme is expanded to treat astronomical items other than s

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Constellation-Art Connections in Multimediaspheres in city parks, to images woven into tapestries. The term “constellation” is itself expanded to embrace the members of our solar system depicted in three-dimensional mechanical sculptures. The individuals encountered range from Julius Caesar to Henry VIII to Albert Einstein. In each case, the

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Constellations as Decorative Artuntry estates spanning the European continent and British Isles. As seen in the use of tapestries containing astronomical themes—and the constellations in particular—there is only a minor separation between the blatantly astrological and the purely celestial in the decorative arts.

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Astronomical Stars of Modern Artquent chapters, artists continued to depict the night sky in a myriad of styles up until the present time. For this final chapter, a few well-known names in modern and contemporary art are selected to trace the evolution of celestial imagery into the latter years of the 20th and dawn of the 21st cen

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