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Author : Caecilia Davis-Weyer (red.),Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0802066283
Originally published by Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Author : Cäcilia Davis-Weyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:888813176
Author : Caecilia Davis-Weyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art, Mediaeval
ISBN : OCLC:79428912
Author : Lawrence Nees
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842439
Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.
Author : Hans Holländer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015809802
Author : Benjamin Anderson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300219166
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states--the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to show how cosmological motifs informed relationships between individuals, especially the ruling elite, and communities, demonstrating how domestic and global politics informed the production and reception of these depictions. The first book to consider such imagery across the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of art history.
Author : Ernst Kitzinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : UCSC:32106001406914
Author : James Robinson,Silke Ackermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082768493
The British Museum has one of the world's finest collections of antiquities from medieval Europe. This magnificent book investigat es 150 of the most important works of art, including the most famous such as the Lewis chessmen, the Borradaile triptych, the St Eustace head reliquary, the Royal Gold Cup, the Royal Gittern and medieval court art from the palaces of Westminster and Clarendon. This book puts these remarkable treasures into a historical context by exploring themes including dynastic art (royal and aristocratic patronage), sacred art (devotion, venerati on and pilgrimage) and the art of pleasure (love, leisure and feasting). The range and scope of the British Museum's marvellous collections combined with the British Library's manuscripts provides a stunning overview of the artistic production of this critical period in Western history.
Author : Toby Huitson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842176658
Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes have long been shrouded in mystery and speculation. From libraries to lights, clocks to dovecotes, from secret games of skittles played over the vaults to the daring exploits of the twelfth-century Flying Monk, Toby Huitson explores the lofty spaces, nooks and crannies of medieval upper spaces though the interrogation of a wide range of documentary, visual and archaeological materials. Evidence is revealed for over 30 different functions during the period from around AD 1000 to 1550. Generously illustrated and fully-referenced, the text is accompanied by a set of special features and a quick-reference section, making it indispensable to all those interested in medieval history and architecture. Dr Toby Huitson teaches at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Author : John Beckwith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Art, Carolingian
ISBN : UOM:39015020388958
Beginning with the coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor of the West in A.D. 800, John Beckwith guides us through the architecture, painting, sculpture, illuminations and ivories of the three great periods of early medieval art. The Ottonian period, perhaps best known for the great center of art and craftsmanship attached to the court, presented an artistic style which had developed from early Christian and Carolingian sources--a style which was the gateway to the great artistic revival in the eleventh and twelfth centuries--the Romanesque period.
Author : Veronica Sekules
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842412
This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the heroism and justice of war, and the dominant view of Christianity. Taking its starting point from issues of contemporary relevance, such as the environment, the identity of the artist, and the position of women, the book also highlights the attitudes and events specific to the sophisticated visual culture of the Middle Ages, and goes on to link this period to the Renaissance. The fascinating question of whether commercial and social activities between countries encouraged similar artistic taste and patronage, or contributed to the defining of cultural difference in Europe, is fully explored.
Author : Philip Walker Jacobs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004397521
In this ground-breaking examination of responses to Joseph the Carpenter, Dr. Jacobs offers fresh insight into the historic understanding and perception of this often forgotten figure. Challenging assumptions about the ways Joseph was understood and perceived in the first several centuries of Christianity, Jacobs begins his study with a thorough review of the earliest narrative portrayals of Joseph in the New Testament. Subsequently, he carefully traces the diverse responses to Joseph through the analysis of numerous works of art and narratives. In the process, he documents the presence of two trajectories: one, the most dominant, which affirms the roles of Joseph presented in the nativity accounts and highlights his significance and, another, which diminishes these roles and, consequently, Joseph's significance. While Jacobs's study documents the presence of tensions with respect to understanding and perception of Joseph within this period of Christianity, it also reveals that Joseph had much more importance than has previously been acknowledged.
Author : R. A. Stalley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0192842234
Drawing on new work published over the past twenty years, the author offers a history of building in Western Europe from 300 to 1200. Medieval castles, church spires, and monastic cloisters are just some of the areas covered.
Author : Michael Frassetto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216076803
This book examines a pivotal period in ancient human history: the fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of a new European civilization in the early Middle Ages. The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne addresses the social and material culture of this critical period in the evolution of Western society, covering the social, political, cultural, and religious history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe. The two-volume set explains how invading and migrating barbarian tribes—spurred by raiding Huns from the steppes of Central Asia—contributed to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and documents how the blending of Greco-Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures birthed a new civilization in Western Europe, creating the Christian Church and the modern nation-state. A-Z entries discuss political transformation, changing religious practices in daily life, sculpture and the arts, material culture, and social structure, and provide biographies of important men and women in the transitional period of late antiquity. The work will be extremely helpful to students learning about the factors that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire—an important and common topic in world history curricula.
Author : Heidi C. Gearhart
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271079837
In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works. Written in northern Germany by a monk known only by the pseudonym Theophilus, On Diverse Arts is the only known complete tract on art to survive from the period. It contains three books, each with a richly religious prologue, describing the arts of painting, glass, and metalwork. Gearhart places this one-of-a-kind treatise in context alongside works by other monastic and literary thinkers of the time and presents a new reading of the text itself. Examining the earliest manuscripts, she reveals a carefully ordered, sophisticated work that aligns the making of art with the virtues of a spiritual life. On Diverse Arts, Gearhart shows, articulated a distinctly medieval theory of art that accounted for the entire process of production—from thought and preparation to the acquisition of material, the execution of work, the creation of form, and the practice of seeing. An important new perspective on one of the most significant texts in art history and the first study of its kind available in English, Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art provides fresh insight into the principles and values of medieval art making. Scholars of art history, medieval studies, and Christianity will find Gearhart’s book especially edifying and valuable.