Illustrated Catalogue Of The Exhibition Of English Medieval Alabaster Work

Author : William Henry St. John Hope
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 146 pages
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Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1528479556

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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 : Society of Antiquaries of London
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341477037

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Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of English Medieval Alabaster Work by Society of Antiquaries of London Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Francis Cheetham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501514852

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Collectors, Commissioners, Curators by Elina Gertsman Pdf

This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial practices by highlighting key objects in some of the most important medieval collections in North America and Europe: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre, the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Getty, the Groeningemuseum, The Morgan Library, Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, and, of course, the CMA, offering perspectives on the histories of collecting and display, artistic identity, and patronage, with special foci on Burgundian art, acquisition histories, and objects in the CMA.

Author : Ronald W. Vince
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9798216183853

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A Companion to the Medieval Theatre by Ronald W. Vince Pdf

Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. Choice Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in performance, A Companion to the Medieval Theatre presents 250 alphabetically arranged entries offering a panoramic view of European and British theatrical productions between the years 900 and 1550. The volume features 30 essays contributed by an international group of specialists and includes many shorter entries as well as systematic cross-referencing, a chronology, a bibliography, and a full complement of indexes. Major entries focus on the theatres of the principal linguistic areas (the British Isles, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and Eastern Europe), and on dramatic forms and genres such as liturgical drama, Passion and saint plays, morality plays, folk drama, and Humanist drama. Other articles examine costume, acting, pageantry, and music, and explore the theatrical dimension of courtly entertainment, the dance, and the tournament. Short entries supply information on over one hundred playwrights, directors, actors and antiquarians whose contributions to the theatre have been documented. This informative guide brings new depth to our appreciation of the richness and color of medieval public entertainments and the symbolism and pageantry that were a part of daily life in the Middle Ages. Designed to appeal to general reader, this volume is also an attractive choice for libraries serving students and scholars of theatre history, English and European literatures, medieval history, cultural history, drama, and performance.

Author : John Block Friedman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 Blair,W. John Blair,Nigel Ramsay
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Arthur Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521166195

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English Medieval Sculpture by Arthur Gardner Pdf

First published in 1951, this volume provides a historical study of English sculpture during the medieval period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142237100X

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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 120, No. 4, 1976) by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Stevenson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230109070

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Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture by J. Stevenson Pdf

In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live religious performances, and to argue that laypeople s interactions with other devotional media - such as books and art objects - may also have functioned like performance events. By revealing the remarkable resonance between cognitive science and medieval visual theories, Stevenson demonstrates how understanding medieval culture can enrich the study of performance generally. She concludes by applying her theories of medieval performance culture to contemporary religious forms, including creationist museums, Hell Houses, and megachurches.

Author : DeLloyd J. Guth
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0521208777

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Late-medieval England, 1377-1485 by DeLloyd J. Guth Pdf

Author : Gianluca Miniaci
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259162

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Breaking Images by Gianluca Miniaci Pdf

Archaeological remains are ‘fragmented by definition’: apart from exceptional cases, the study of the human past takes into account mainly traces, ruins, discards, and debris of past civilizations. It is rare that things have been preserved as they were originally made and conceived in the past. However, not all the ancient fragmentary objects were the ‘leftovers’ from the past. A noticeable portion of them was part and parcel of the ancient materiality already in the form of a fragment or damaged item. In 2000, John Chapman, with his volume Fragmentation in Archaeology, attracted the attention of scholars on the need to reconsider broken artifacts as the result of the deliberate anthropic process of physical fragmentation. The phenomenon of fragmentation can be thus explored with more outcomes for a category of objects that played an important role inside the society: the figurines. Due to their portability and size, figurines are particularly entangled and engaged in social, spatial, temporal, and material relations, and – more than other artifacts – can easily accommodate acts of embodiment and dismemberment. The act of creation symmetrically also involves the act of destruction, which in turn is another act of creation, since from the fragmentation comes a new entity with a different ontology. Breaking contains the paradigms of life: creation and reparation, destruction and regeneration. The scope of this volume is to search for traces of any voluntary and intentional fragmentation of ancient artifacts, creating, improving, and sharpening the methods and principles for a scientific investigation that goes beyond single author impression or sensitivity. The comparative lens adopted in this volume can allow the reader to explore different fields taken from ancient societies of how we can address, assess, detect, and even discuss the action of breaking and mutilation of ancient figurines.

Author : David Gaimster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351546614

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The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580 by David Gaimster Pdf

Traditionally the Reformation has been viewed as responsible for the rupture of the medieval order and the foundation of modern society. Recently historians have challenged the stereotypical model of cataclysm, and demonstrated that the religion of Tudor England was full of both continuities and adaptations of traditional liturgy, ritual and devoti

Author : Sara N. James
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785702242

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Art in England by Sara N. James Pdf

Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The media studied include architecture and related sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons.

Author : Richard Marks
Publisher : Pindar Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781915837219

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Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle Ages by Richard Marks Pdf