Medieval Art

ISBN: 9782503530987
Published by : Brepols
The story of Tristan and Isolde was one of the most popular in the Middle Ages. Resonances of it appear in other narratives, in poetry, and especially in art in the form of wall paintings, wall hangings, tapestries, bed coverings, tablecloths, and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375684
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 64
For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights - recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous late thirteenth-century manuscripts extant - as well as for her numerou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503531670
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Gothic Art
Volume: 1
Table of Contents: Paul Binski, The Piscina in Saint-Urbain at Troyes and Château d'Amour - Robert Bork, Ars Sine Historia Nihi Est: How the story deficit doomed Gothic - Christoph Brachmann, Te bene dotavit ...: Heinri... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503531687
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Gothic Art
Volume: 2
Table of Contents:
Jonathan Alexander, Homeless and Marginalised: a Leaf from the 'Ghistelles Hours' - Tim Ayers, Collegiate Identity and the Art of Lancastrian Reform: The Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford in the E... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781857094824
Published by : Yale University Press
The National Gallery houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and the di Cione brothers. Since these were last catalogued there have been four new acquisit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780747808107
Published by : Shire Publications
Packed full of colour photographs, this little book forms the perfect introduction to medieval funerary sculpture. Sally Badham first provides an overview of the iconography and meaning of church monuments, then looks at their development, thei... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780747808312
Published by : Shire Publications
A perenially popular feature of medieval architectural decoration, these carvings site at the roofline, the gargoyle throwing rainwater clear of the building and the grotesque performing a purely decorative function. Alex Woodcock, stonemason ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300134438
Published by : Yale University Press
Jean Fouquet was France's most important 15th-century artist, painting for the courts of Charles VII and Louis XI. His art synthesized the realistic style of Flemish arts like van Eyck with the monumentality of Florentines like Masaccio. Erik I... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300164930
Published by : Yale University Press
This handsomely produced volume examines manuscript illumination and changing conceptions of the importance of the visual in conveying religious truth following the increased emphasis placed on pastoral work at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215... .... Learn More