English Medieval Alabasters

Author : Francis Cheetham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1843830094

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English Medieval Alabasters by Francis Cheetham Pdf

Francis Cheetham's classic survey of English medieval alabasters includes a richly illustrated catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum's unparalleled collection. English alabasters represent a unique contribution to medieval art. Less sophisticated, perhaps, than other contemporary forms of religious art, they were a neglected area of study until this volume was first published in 1984. Stories from the New Testament and The Golden Legend were the most favoured subjects, and the numerous examples that survive in churches and museums throughout Europe attest to their wide and enduring appeal. FrancisCheetham examines here all aspects of their production and demonstrates how the panels and altarpieces can aid our understanding of life and devotional practice in medieval times. At the heart of this fascinating study is arichly illustrated catalogue of the 260 examples in the collection of London's Victoria and Albert Museum: a collection "so comprehensive that it would be possible to write a survey of the subject almost without recourse to pieces elsewhere," as Sir Roy Strong notes in his Foreword. Their division into subject categories is an invaluable aid to identification and classification. The late Francis Cheetham was an acknowledged expert on medieval English alabasters, and this reissue of his classic work will be welcomed by historians, art historians, collectors and dealers alike, taking its place alongside his Alabaster Images of Medieval England which was published by the Boydell Press in 2003.

Author : Francis W. Cheetham
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 1843830280

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Alabaster Images of Medieval England by Francis W. Cheetham Pdf

The fullest catalogue available on English medieval alabasters - 2,400 entries, with historical and art historical contextual material.

Author : Zuleika Murat
Publisher : Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783274077

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English Alabaster Carvings and Their Cultural Contexts by Zuleika Murat Pdf

New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England and abroad, and as a result many survived the iconoclasm that destroyed so much else from this period. They are a unique and valuable witness to the material culture of the Middle Ages. This volume incorporates a variety of new approaches to these artefacts, employing methodologies drawn from a number of different disciplines. Its chapters explore a range of key points connected to alabasters: their origins, their general history and their social, cultural, intellectual and devotional contexts. ZULEIKA MURAT is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Medieval Art at the University of Padua. Contributors: Jennifer Alexander, Jon Bayliss, Claire Blakey, Stephanie De Roemer, Rachel King, AndrewKirkman, Aleksandra Lipinska, Zuleika Murat, Luca Palozzi, Sophie Phillips, Nigel Ramsay, Christina Welch, Philip Weller, Kim Woods, Michaela Zöschg

Author : Jessica Caroline Brantley,Elizabeth Cover Teviotdale,Stephen Perkinson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501518127

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Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England by Jessica Caroline Brantley,Elizabeth Cover Teviotdale,Stephen Perkinson Pdf

This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into dialogue with twenty-first-century scholarship on pre-modern visual culture. Devotional alabaster images, too often thought of as "folk art" and narrowly English, were avidly collected and appreciated throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages, and this collection of essays seeks to help integrate them into the current discourse on materiality, the role of seriality in the changing modes of artistic production of the late Middle Ages, and the broad debate about whether it is useful to draw distinctions between elite/high and folk/low culture.

Author : Francis Cheetham
Publisher : Gli Ori
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015047717221

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The Alabaster Men by Francis Cheetham Pdf

Author : John Blair,W. John Blair,Nigel Ramsay
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0907628877

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English Medieval Industries by John Blair,W. John Blair,Nigel Ramsay Pdf

English Medieval Industries is an authoritative modern survey of medieval crafts and their products. It is heavily illustrated by pictures of surviving objects and contemporary representations of medieval work. Each industry is approached by material (amongst others stone, tin, lead, copper, iron, brick, glass, leather, bone and wood), discussing its acquisition, working and sale as a finished product. The contributors are the leading experts in their fields. They describe the specialist work that went to make the housing, clothing, tools, vessels and ornaments of medieval people. A general bibliography provides a valuable reference tool.

Author : Paul Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Alabaster sculpture
ISBN : 0883971569

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Object of Devotion by Paul Williamson Pdf

Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla. and five other institutions between Dec. 2, 2010 and Aug. 12, 2012.

Author : Terence Hodgkinson,Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031891968

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English Medieval Alabasters by Terence Hodgkinson,Victoria and Albert Museum Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Alabaster sculpture, English
ISBN : OCLC:913458843

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Object of Devotion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kim Woods
Publisher : Distinguished Contributions to
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1909400262

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Cut in Alabaster by Kim Woods Pdf

While marble is associated with Renaissance Italy, alabaster was the material commonly used elsewhere in Europe and has its own properties, traditions and meanings. It enjoyed particular popularity as a sculptural material during the two centuries 1330-1530, when alabaster sculpture was produced both for indigenous consumption and for export. Focussing especially on England, the Burgundian Netherlands and Spain, three territories closely linked through trade routes, diplomacy and cultural exchange, this book explores and compares the material practice and visual culture of alabaster sculpture in late medieval Europe. Cut in Alabaster charts sculpture from quarry to contexts of use, exploring practitioners, markets and functions as well as issues of consumption, display and material meanings. It provides detailed examination of tombs, altarpieces and both elite and popular sculpture, ranging from high status bespoke commissions to small, low-cost carvings produced commercially for a more popular clientele.

Author : Society of Antiquaries of London,Sir William Henry St. John Hope,Edward Schröder Prior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Alabaster
ISBN : UIUC:30112109161320

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Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of English Medieval Alabaster Work by Society of Antiquaries of London,Sir William Henry St. John Hope,Edward Schröder Prior Pdf

Author : William Henry St. John Hope
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0260995479

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Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of English Medieval Alabaster Work by William Henry St. John Hope Pdf

Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of English Medieval Alabaster Work: Held in the Rooms of the Society of Antiquaries 26th May to 30th June, 1910 The main outlines of the subject having thus been laid down, it remained to deal with the question of the date of existing examples, on the grounds of treatment and style. Professor Prior's paper in the present volume deals with this question, and is followed by the catalogue of the alabaster carvings exhibited in the rooms of the Society from May 26 to June 30, 1910. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Francis W. Cheetham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Alabaster
ISBN : LCCN:77299761

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Medieval English Alabaster Carvings in the Castle Museum, Nottingham by Francis W. Cheetham Pdf

Author : John Block Friedman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815626495

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Northern English Books, Owners and Makers in the Late Middle Ages by John Block Friedman Pdf

In addition to historians and manuscript specialists, this book will have a strong appeal to antiquarians and bibliophiles of the English language.

Author : John Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780429765018

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Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games by John Marshall Pdf

Covering a period of nearly 40 years’ work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed. It explores why, where, when, and how the plays happened, who took part, and who were the audiences. The insights are informed by a combination of research and the public presentation of surviving texts. The research included in the volume unites the early English experiences of religious and secular performance. This recognition challenges the dominant critical distinction of the past between the two and the consequent privileging of biblical and moral plays over secular entertainments. What further binds, rather than separates, the two is that the destination of funds raised by the different activities maintained the civic and parochial needs of the institutions upon which the people depended. This collection redefines the inclusive nature and common interests of the purposes that lay behind generically different undertakings. They shared an extraordinary investment of human and financial resources in the anticipation of a profit that was pious and practical. (CS1081).