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Author : René Huyghe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : 0600023575
Author : René Huyghe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:1007186226
Author : Gustav Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780029070529
In the midst of the remarkable revival of interest and belief in angels comes this handsomely illustrated reference work--the fruit of 16 years of research in Talmudic, gnostic, cabalistic, apocalyptic, patristic, and legendary texts. "A wacky and wonderful compendium of angelic lore".--Time. Illustrations.
Author : Denis E. McGuinness
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680483635
The fine art of painting is as varied as the life from which it springs. Each artist portrays different aspects of the world. A great artist is able to take some aspect of life and give it depth and meaning. To do this, an artist will make use of the many devices common to painting. These include composition, color, form, and texture. This engaging and dazzling reference covers the elements and principles of design in painting and the various mediums, forms, imagery, subject matter, and symbolism employed, adopted, or created by the painter. Key artworks are reproduced to clarify concepts.
Author : Daniel Delis Hill
Publisher : Daniel Delis Hill
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780986425493
The History of World Dress and Fashion presents a comprehensive survey of dress from around the world including China, Japan, India, Africa, the Islamic Empire, and the Ancient Americas. This extensive study features descriptions and analysis of men’s, women’s and children’s clothing, accessories, and cultural styles from prehistory into the twenty-first century. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, it features more than 1600 images - and is a valuable resource for fashion designers, theater costumers, textile researchers, costume collectors and curators, and anyone interest in clothing and style customs of the world.
Author : Timothy Dawson,Graham Sumner
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848325890
By the sixth century of the common era the Roman Empire already had many hundreds of years of accumulated ceremonial embedded in its government, and practical science embodied in its army. The transition from Republic to Imperium and the more hierarchical structure that entailed, and the absorption of Christianity into state processes, had pushed the development of court ceremonial apace, and particularly driven its embodiment and display in ever more opulent regalia. The regalia embraced not only garments of distinctive form and decoration, but also both dress and non-dress accessories. It was crucial in displaying rank and function on an everyday basis, yet was also varied considerably for special occasions. Military dress largely reflected forms current amongst ordinary men, but with an emphasis on functionality, eschewing the excesses of fashion. Detailed literary and artistic sources, archaeology and insights derived from reconstruction and practical experience has gone into creating an incredibly lavish picture of the clothing of the longest-enduring political entity in history. Links End Links Author End Author
Author : E. Burns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137096753
The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity and queer identity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries us into the domain of economic history and the study of material commodities, trade and cultural patterns of exchange within western Europe and between east and west. Contributors to this volume represent a broad array of disciplines currently involved in rethinking medieval culture in terms of the material world.
Author : John F. Szabo,Nicholas E. Kuefler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442251564
With over 1780 entries, Szabo and Kuefler offer the largest and most heavily annotated bibliography on the Tapestry ever written.
Author : JanetE. Snyder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351569071
Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between the 1130s and the 1170s. At more than twenty great churches, beginning at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and extending around Paris from Provins in the east, south to Bourges and Dijon, and west to Chartres and Angers, larger than life-size statues of human figures were arranged along portal jambs, many carved as if wearing the dress of the highest ranks of French society. This study takes a close look at twelfth-century human figure sculpture, describing represented clothing, defining the language of textiles and dress that would have been legible in the twelfth-century, and investigating rationale and significance. The concepts conveyed through these extraordinary visual documents and the possible motivations of the patrons of portal programs with column-figures are examined through contemporaneous historical, textual, and visual evidence in various media. Appendices include analysis of sculpture production, and the transportation and fabrication in limestone from Paris. Janet Snyder's new study considers how patrons used sculpture to express and shape perceived reality, employing images of textiles and clothing that had political, economic, and social significances.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Lisbeth Castelnuovo-Tedesco,Jack Soultanian
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sculpture
ISBN : 9781588393968
"The collection of Italian medieval sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters began with the acquisition in 1908 of a Romanesque column statue; today the Museum's holdings comprise more than seventy works dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century ... The birthplaces of these works range from Sicily to Venice; some typify local styles, others illustrate the intense artistic exchanges taking place within Italy and between Italy and the wider world ... Technological advances of the last decades have made it possible to determine more precisely the materials and techniques from which works of art are made, the history of their alteration, and the mechanisms of their deterioration. Using such techniques, scholars have been able to ascertain, for example, that sculptures previously thought to be modern works carved in the medieval manner were in fact completely authentic. This innovative volume represents a watershed in the study of sculpture: a collaborative dialogue between an art historian and a conservator—between art history and art science—that deepens our understanding of the object we see, while illuminating its elusive, enigmatic history"--From publisher's description.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1966-10
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015039430361
Author : Frederick B. Artz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226308128
"This is the third edition of a near standard survey of the intellectual life of the age of faith. Artz on the arts, as on philosophy, politics and other aspects of culture, makes lively and informative reading."—The Washington Post
Author : Wilhelm Gräb,Lars Charbonnier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110384710
Current processes of globalization are challenging Human Rights and the attempts to institutionalize them in many ways. The question of the connection between religion and human rights is a crucial point here. The genealogy of the Human Rights is still a point of controversies in the academic discussion. Nevertheless, there is consensus that the Christian tradition – especially the doctrine that each human being is an image of God – played an important role within the emergence of the codification of the Human Rights in the period of enlightenment. It is also obvious that the struggle against the politics of apartheid in South Africa was strongly supported by initiatives of churchy and other religious groups referring to the Human Rights. Christian churches and other religious groups do still play an important role in the post-apartheid South Africa. They have a public voice concerning all the challenges with which the multiethnic and economically still deeply divided South African society is faced with. The reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays of this volume derive from an academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place within the German-South African Year of Science 2012/13.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1666 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015036935727
Author : Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521312485
This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor Wickham describes three major influences upon the drama: religion, recreation and commerce. The first produced the liturgical music drama rooted in praise of Christ the King, vernacular Corpus Christi drama, Saint Plays and Moralities centred on the humanity of Christ. The second gave rise to the secular theatres of social recreation based on the games and dances of village communities ad the more sophisticated sex and war games of the nobility. The section on commerce shows how the development of the drama was intimately related to questions of funding and management which led, during the sixteenth century, to the substitution of a professional for an amateur theatre, and to a growing emphasis on stage spectacle. For this third edition the author has added a substantial section on monastic reform and its effect on Biblical translation and the use of allegory; a final chapter charts the transition in different European countries from this medieval Gothic theatre to the neoclassical methods of play construction and representation which flourished for the next two hundred years. The book gorges a coherent pattern through a very large and complicated subject. It is an excellent introduction to medieval theatre for undergraduates and to the growing number of theatregoers who enjoy contemporary revivals of medieval plays. A large plate section gives a pictorial version of the story, using photographs of contemporary manuscript illuminations, mosaics, frescoes, paintings and sculptures.