Medieval

Professor Sauerlander is the leading authority on Gothic sculpture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The papers collected here have been published over the last 35 years. They represent important contributions to the subject - two are published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899828258Author Neil StratfordFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Pindar PressPublisher Pindar Press

The author is Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a noted authority on Italian medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination. His numerous publications include Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, and he...

The central theme of the articles reproduced in these two volumes is the role of the visual arts and architecture in the cultural interaction between medieval societies, Christian and Muslim, in the eastern Mediterranean. Visual forms of production and...

This selection of articles by Walter Cahn, the Carnegie Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, embraces work by the author that spans a period of some thirty years. Professor Cahn's interests here represented range from the illustration of...

This is the first of two volumes that contains all of Professor Kitzinger's major essays on the art of Late Antiquity, accompanied by a new preface and a comprehensive index. The volume is divided into two sections; the first on Late Antique art...

Professor Otto Demus's work on Byzantine art represents one of the great original contributions to the subject made in this century. His early studies in the 1930s on the "mosaics of Greece were followed by his fundamental work on the mosaics of Norman...

The central theme of the articles reproduced in these two volumes is the role of the visual arts and architecture in the cultural interaction between medieval societies, Christian and Muslim, in the eastern Mediterranean. Visual forms of production and...

This is a systematic publication of the approximately 20 Byzantine churches with wall-paintings which have survived destruction in the province of Rethymnon, Crete. They date from ca. 1000 A.D. to the fifteenth century. Most were decorated during the...

This volume contains papers written in the years following 1986 which discuss both specific examples of sculpture, such as Donatello's Madonna, or broader surveys of a particular sculptor or style. Both stone and bronze sculptures are studied, including...

Since turning to the field of Jewish art over twenty years ago, Vivian Mann has concentrated on investigating Jewish ceremonial art within the dual contexts of Jewish law, and the history of decorative arts in general, including the ceremonial art made...

Beyond Words accompanies a collaborative exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503516806Author Judith OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1665gDimensions(mm) 282mm * 220mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503515106Author Klara H BroekhuijsenFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1588gDimensions(mm) 257mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503577159Author Johan OostermanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 939g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905375370Author Ann NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 267mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782960076929Author C WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 8210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783799512534Author Laurent HablotFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Jan Thorbecke VerlagPublisher Jan Thorbecke VerlagWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503509587Author C. IshikawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503505015Author STROOImprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1579g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503547527Author Kathleen E KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has a world-famous collection of oriental manuscripts assembled by the late Sir Alfred Chester Beatty during the last century. A catalogue of the Armenian manuscripts was prepared by the eminent historian of Armenian...

Blood serves an excellent indicator of a nexus of late medieval and early modern Cultural Change, in which matter and meaning seems to have segregated progressively. As the harmony of body and spirit succumbed under the strain of competing world views,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827167Author Alessia BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788021083226Author I FolettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 794g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867284993Author Serena RomanoFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259367Author Victoria CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951375Author Valentin GroebnerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith's life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Organizing her book chronologically by Judith's...

Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants invoked saints, and why. Despite medieval and modern stereotypes of merchants as godless and avaricious, medieval traders...

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these...

One of the finest works from the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination, the Getty's copy of the Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies tells of the adventures of a medieval nobleman. Part travelogue, part romance, and part epic, the text traces the...

"Perspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking" examines medieval culture from a number of different viewpoints to reveal how the art of the Middle Ages can provide a unique insight into the wider issues of medieval politics and culture. The...

On the cusp of becoming a teenager, Charlie Gargiulo lived through the planned destruction of the Little Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Mass., in the 1960s. This is his story. He went on to become a legendary community organizer who led efforts to ensure...

In 1799, one of the most important hoards of gold from the European early Middle Ages was discovered near the village of Nagyszentmiklos (then in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Sannicolau Mare, Romania). It consists of 23 gold vessels with a total weight of...

Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians - including Male, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and...

The four volumes of Edward Garrison's Studies, published between 1953 and 1962, represented a landmark in the study of medieval Italian painting. They made available for the first time photographs of all miniatures of the region and period concerned -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023494Author Annemarie Weyl CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

The eleven studies reprinted here were published by Professor Kauffmann over a period of twenty years, and reflect his interest in Romanesque and Gothic art in England and Europe. They include a number of studies on panel paintings, and a highly...