Medieval

This second volume focuses on major works of art produced in Siena, Florence or Padua or executed by artists associated with the three cities. The case studies include discussions of the evolution of two important building types (town halls and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983753735Author Colum HourihaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityPublisher...

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted "gateways" of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy. Gillian B. Elliott examines the liturgical connection between the ciborium...

Creation imagery in manuscripts made in the Middle Ages became a locus for visual experimentation as well as the expression of ideas about creativity. By examining representations of divine creation and illustrations of the creation stories in Genesis,...

Buildings and their surrounding spaces influence the collective identity of an urban population. In turn, images of buildings in paintings and other artwork can reveal much about the character of a city. This richly illustrated text focuses...

Christian-Islamic encounters through religious arts, architecture, and material culture in the medieval eraThe coexistence of Christianity and Islam in the medieval Mediterranean led to an interchange of knowledge in architecture and material culture ...

Secrecy has played a role throughout human history and continues to capture the popular imagination. Some of the most seductive aspects of the Byzantine Empire-such as the relics of the imperial palace and the military uses of Greek fire-have been...

As evidenced by the famed Book of Kells and monumental high crosses, Scotland and Ireland have long shared a distinctive artistic tradition. The story of how this tradition developed and flourished for another millennium through survival, adaptation and...

From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the "Holy Land," from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian...

This volume addresses a vital point of intersection between images in the Middle Ages and those in the modern world: the potential of medieval works of art to convey messages of power and resistance. Provoked by the misuse of medieval imagery in modern...

This monograph provides the first substantial analysis of the visual arts commissioned by Scots in France prior to Mary Queen of Scots. It examines how Scottish identity was represented and promoted through patronage of the visual arts. Tying together...

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The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the women's art movement. Conceived as a nonhierarchical, secular commemoration of female role models, The Sister Chapel consisted of an...

This volume examines Saint George's intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and Islamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503529776Author Margaret GoehringFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1247gDimensions(mm) 287mm * 226mm *...

Written over the course of a quarter century, the nineteen essays reprinted in this volume reflect a continuing belief in the seriousness and complexity of the relationship between pictures and texts in medieval art. Professor Kessler has grouped his...

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Regime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential,...

This volume assesses how current approaches to iconology and iconography break new ground in understanding the signification and reception of medieval images, both in their own time and in the modern world. Framed by critical essays that apply...

Between 1170 and 1190 in Alsace, Abbess Herrad compiled for her canonesses an elaborate manuscript, the Hortus deliciarum, which combined resplendent images with quotations from more than fifty texts to portray a history of the Christian church across...

Dynamic Splendor introduces a cycle of sixth-century mosaics little known to scholars, though they are comparable in quality and interest to famed mosaics in Italy and elsewhere. Ann Terry and Henry Maguire provide the first comprehensive account of the...

These two volumes brings together Professor Sauerlander's papers on Romanesque art, and complement his two previously published volumes in this series on Gothic art. The studies are again grouped around a number of common themes: structures, problems of...

In her study of the relationship between art and its theological, liturgical and literary background in Byzantium, Dr. Gavrilovic has devoted a great deal of attention to the medieval state of Serbia, where, in the process of a strong cultural influence,...

No story is more central to Western culture than the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, and none better demonstrates the power of representation in shaping religious faith and practice. The incidence of Passion imagery in diverse media is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905375639Author Ann NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1406gDimensions(mm) 269mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501543Author Otto PachtFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1338gDimensions(mm) 290mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503544045Author Katherine MarsengillFormat PaperbackPage Count 463Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895009631Author Julia GonnellaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig Reichert

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Begun in 1951 by monks at the abbey of La Pierre-qui-Vire in Burgundy, the Zodiaque publications consisted of a triennial journal and multiple series of books, including the most famous: La Nuit des temps. The editors' goal was to renew sacred art for...

In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings created a cultural network that spanned four continents: from the Caspian Sea to the North Atlantic and from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. The Viking Age was a period of major change as a result of...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401735Author Glenn PeersFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891455Author Jitske JasperseFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474450386Author Chad KiaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Analyzing the ways in which ideas of heroic discourse and the socio-religious and political needs of the period moulded iconography, this book explores the evolution of the iconography of the early mediaeval Hindu temples of the Indian peninsula, over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976820246Author Colum HourihaneFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityPublisher...

This volume contains thirteen papers from a conference held in the Roemisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz in 2015. The contributions primarily deal with the material culture of goldsmiths' works, such as crosses, reliquary caskets, jewellery,...

The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex...

Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early modern studies.Divided into five parts, the book examines how people, medieval and modern, engage with medieval media and...

Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound...