Medieval Ornament

Author : Karl Alexander von Heideloff
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486155647

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Medieval Ornament by Karl Alexander von Heideloff Pdf

The decorative arts of the Middle Ages — richly ornate, filled with religious and mythic symbolism — were especially remarkable for the complexities of their design and their inspired craftsmanship. This fascinating volume presents nearly 1,000 illustrations of medieval ornament, consisting mostly of architectural elements from German Romanesque and Gothic churches and other buildings. Originally compiled by the German architect, painter, and engraver Karl Alexander von Heldeloff (1788–1865) as a source of study and inspiration for practicing artists and architects, this grand pictorial archive has been exactingly reproduced from a rare original edition, complete with new English translations of the German captions. The book is filled with precisely detailed engravings of doors, windows, decorative stonework, columns, pedestals, and more. It remains a richly varied resource of authentic images of medieval ornament, ideal for students of architecture and the decorative arts and essential for graphic artists and designers in search of royalty-free illustrations.

Author : Dover,Dover Publications Inc
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486995458

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Full-Color Medieval Ornament by Dover,Dover Publications Inc Pdf

Selected from 19th-century reprints of medieval manuscripts, 355 full-color illustrations depict a wide range of subjects — from birds, florals, animals, and geometrics to letters of the alphabet embellished with flowers and sinuous vines, mythical beasts, musicians, whimsical figures emerging from flowers, knights in battle, and much more.

Author : Jules Gailhabaud
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486147406

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Medieval Ornament and Design by Jules Gailhabaud Pdf

This lavish archive of exquisite engravings and designs--originally created in the mid-nineteenth century for the professional artist and architect--contains some 200 splendid illustrations, expertly adapted from decorative as well as utilitarian features of medieval cathedrals, churches, tombs, houses, shops, public buildings, and other structures. Encompassing a wide variety of styles, the designs include finely detailed panels, gawking gargoyles, marvelously carved pillars and pedestals, exquisite ironwork patterns, decorative stonework, magnificent stained glass windows, moldings enhanced with intricately woven motifs, and much more. Artists, designers, and craftworkers will find wide use for these versatile, royalty-free illustrations. Students of architecture, art historians, and lovers of ornamental art will delight in the pure beauty of this magnificent collection.

Author : Matthias Friedrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009207720

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Image and Ornament in the Early Medieval West by Matthias Friedrich Pdf

Scholarship often treats the post-Roman art produced in central and north-western Europe as representative of the pagan identities of the new 'Germanic' rulers of the early medieval world. In this book, Matthias Friedrich offers a critical reevaluation of the ethnic and religious categories of art that still inform our understanding of early medieval art and archaeology. He scrutinises early medieval visual culture by combining archaeological approaches with art historical methods based on contemporary theory. Friedrich examines the transformation of Roman imperial images, together with the contemporary, highly ornamented material culture that is epitomized by 'animal art.' Through a rigorous analysis of a range of objects, he demonstrates how these pathways produced an aesthetic that promoted variety (varietas), a cross-cultural concept that bridged the various ethnic and religious identities of post-Roman Europe and the Mediterranean worlds.

Author : Maria Rosa Menocal
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316092791

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The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal Pdf

This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times). This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where for more than seven centuries Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and where literature, science, and the arts flourished. "It is no exaggeration to say that what we presumptuously call 'Western' culture is owed in large measure to the Andalusian enlightenment...This book partly restores a world we have lost." —Christopher Hitchens, The Nation

Author : Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 1853269557

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Medieval Ornament by Wordsworth Editions, Limited Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:44998879

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Medieval Ornament by Anonim Pdf

Author : Auguste Racinet
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486155463

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Racinet's Historic Ornament in Full Color by Auguste Racinet Pdf

DIVThe 19th-century French illustrator's classic reference to the decorative ornament of history's major cultures; over 2,000 royalty-free motifs in 100 beautiful full-color plates. /div

Author : Moscow Museum of Art
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486155623

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Medieval Russian Ornament in Full Color by Moscow Museum of Art Pdf

Over 1,000 motifs reprinted from a rare book of design first published in France in 1870. Ornate Cyrillic and Greek letters, corners, borders, page heads, and more as they appeared in illuminated Russian manuscripts.

Author : Anna Bücheler
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 3110530708

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Ornament as Argument by Anna Bücheler Pdf

This study explores notions of ornamentation and materiality in 10th and 11th century manuscript illumination. So-called textile pages evoking the weave patterns of Byzantine and Islamic silk, show that ornament has metaphoric meaning and serves distinct functions in religious art. A contextualized reading investigates the ways in which textile pages relate to medieval theological issues, the liturgy, and contribute to medieval book culture.

Author : Margaret S. Graves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190695927

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Arts of Allusion by Margaret S. Graves Pdf

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, perhaps most strikingly, architecture. Lanterns fashioned after miniature shrines, incense burners in the form of domed monuments, earthenware jars articulated with arches and windows, inkwells that allude to tents: through close studies of objects from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, this book reveals that allusions to architecture abound across media in the portable arts of the medieval Islamic world. Arts of Allusion draws upon a broad range of material evidence as well as medieval texts to locate its subjects in a cultural landscape where the material, visual, and verbal realms were intertwined. Moving far beyond the initial identification of architectural types with their miniature counterparts in the plastic arts, Margaret Graves develops a series of new frameworks for exploring the intelligent art of the allusive object. These address materiality, representation, and perception, and examine contemporary literary and poetic paradigms of metaphor, description, and indirect reference as tools for approaching the plastic arts. Arguing for the role of the intellect in the applied arts and for the communicative potential of ornament, Arts of Allusion asserts the reinstatement of craftsmanship into Islamic intellectual history.

Author : Margaret Goehring
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Buchmalerei
ISBN : 2503529771

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Space, Place and Ornament by Margaret Goehring Pdf

"The present volume analyzes the functions of landscape imagery within medieval Northern European manuscript illumination, and also takes into account the ideological and the economic milieus in which they were produced. This book proposes a new methodological framework for the study of medieval landscape imagery, by analyzing the functions of landscape imagery within Northern European manuscript illumination. Taking a historicist approach, this study explores landscape imagery within a broad range of specific manuscript contexts, taking into account the ideological and the economic milieus in which they were produced."-- Publisher description.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Popular Culture Ink
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Decoration and ornament, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127397144

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Medieval Ornament from the 9th to the 16th Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : T. L. J. Howard,Michael Snodin,Maurice Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0300064551

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Ornament by T. L. J. Howard,Michael Snodin,Maurice Howard Pdf

In a wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, the authors begin by tracing the ways ornament has been used over the last five centuries, the rules of decorum and etiquette associated with it, and the social, moral and spiritual values it has represented. They examine how architecture set the agenda for ornament in the Renaissance, and how printed images carried a common vocabulary of ornament throughout the Western world. They survey the personal side of ornament, both in dress and in the domestic interior - a private expression of the self and a public statement of social and cultural status. They look at ornament in the public domain - from the lavish decoration and symbolism of a town pageant to the logos of today's corporate industry - and show how the ever-evolving role of ornament is to invent and embody the collective spirit of communities at work and at leisure. They conclude by discussing how the Western tradition of ornament has responded to and absorbed 'exotic' African and Asian motifs: Moresque motifs of the Near East and such familiar designs as the 'Paisley' and Willow" patterns.

Author : James Trilling
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0295981482

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Ornament by James Trilling Pdf

This text is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism and its subsequent reinvention. Trilling explains how ornament works, why it has to be explained and why it matters.