Medieval Art

ISBN: 9781843837596
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Oxbow says: Subtitled `A Patronage History', this book examines the commissioning and financing of works of art and architecture in the Benedictine monasteries and nunneries of south-west England from 1300 to the Dissolution of the monasteries... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904597490
Published by : Pindar Press
Volume: 3
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period, Iran domi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907625077
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: BAA CONFERENCE TRANSACTIONS SERIES
Volume: 34
The essays in this volume are devoted to the art and architecture of Munster, one of the four ancient provinces of Ireland. A major theme underpinning many of the essays is the degree to which Irish craftsmen and builders engaged with the rest... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521583459
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A comprehensive survey of the history of the book in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times. The expert contributions explore the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration, examine the circu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503512310
Published by : Brepols
Series: Ars Nova
Volume: 6
Around the year 1400, a new official position was created for artists in several major centers in the southern Netherlands, i.e. Antwerp, Louvain, Malines. Appointed by the municipal government, these city painters (called stadsmeester schilders) ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503523781
Published by : Brepols
Series: Terrarum Orbis
Volume: 8
Fra Mauro's mappamundi , drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining literary, visual, t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503517117
Published by : Brepols
The extraordinary cloister of Santo Domingo de Silos is central to our understanding of medieval sculpture, and of Spains place in its development. Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo offers an innovative reading of the monasterys medieval sculpture and th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503991139
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology
Volume: 11
The book aims at a better understanding of the economy of the building industry at Sagalassos through the study of the provenance, extraction and preparation of the building materials (stone, brick, mortar, glass) and the techniques used in buildi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503512372
Published by : Brepols
This book considers the development of figurative wall painting in the southern Low Countries over a period of two centuries, between circa 1300 and 1500. The region had a long-standing tradition of monumental figurative painting, of which the ear... .... Learn More