Art & Architecture
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Medieval Image-Concepts and the Meaning of Visual Programs [Hardback]
Beat Brenk (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828739
Published by : Pindar Press
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This is the second volume of Professor Brenk's studies on late-Antique and medieval art; the first volume, on The Christianization of the Late Roman World , is featured earlier.<CR><CR> This volume presents a selection... .... Learn More
Medieval Rome: A History in Art [Hardback]
John Osborne (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597414
Published by : Pindar Press
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For over twenty years, Professor Osborne has worked on the medieval wall paintings of Rome. His papers cover the period from the Byzantine art of the early Middle Ages to the flowering of monumental painting and mosaic in the twelfth and thirteent... .... Learn More
Design and Techniques in Early Medieval Celtic Metalwork [Hardback]
Niamh Whitfield (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597339
Published by : Pindar Press
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Niamh Whitfield is a leading authority on the metalwork of early Medieval Ireland and Scotland. Celtic metalwork of the seventh to twelfth centuries is extremely accomplished technically, and she has aimed at a thorough understand... .... Learn More
Illuminated Manuscripts [Paperback]
Richard Hayman (Author)
£7.99ISBN: 9781784422363
Published by : Bloomsbury
Series: Shire Library
Volume: 841
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Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments... .... Learn More
The Ormesby Psalter: Patrons and Painting in Medieval England [Hardback]
Frederica C. E. Law- Turner (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781851243105
Published by : Bodleian Library
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The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. Its pages boast a wealth of decoration picked out in rich colours and burnished gol... .... Learn More
English Parish Churches and Chapels: Art, Architecture and People [Hardback]
Matthew Byrne (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781784422394
Published by : Bloomsbury
There are over 40,000 churches and chapels in the United Kingdom. The earliest were built by the first Anglo-Saxon Christians and about 10,000 were built before the Reformation in the sixteenth century. This beautifully illustrated book features p... .... Learn More
The Bar Books: Manuscripts Illuminated for Renaud de Bar, Bishop of Metz (1303-1316) [Hardback]
Kay Davenport (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9782503574677
Published by : Brepols
Series: Manuscripta Illuminata
Volume: 2
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Renaud de Bar (d. 1316) was the sixty-ninth bishop of Metz, and the fourth son of the powerful count of Bar. The house of Bar had a distinguished lineage intertwined with most of the important European houses, and Renaud’s eldest brother marr... .... Learn More
Lombard Legacy: Cultural Strategies and the Visual Arts in Early Medieval Italy [Hardback]
John Mitchell (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597346
Published by : Pindar Press
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Using the great south-Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the best preserved monasteries of the earliest Middle Ages, as a case-study and heuristic paradigm, John Mitchell has engaged in a wide-ranging examination of the ways in ... .... Learn More
Studies in Arthurian Illustration Volume 1 [Hardback]
Alison Stones (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597377
Published by : Pindar Press
Volume: 1
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Alison Stones has taught History of Art and Architecture in the USA since 1969 and has enjoyed Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris. She is a specialist in illuminated manuscripts, co-authoring Les Manuscrits de... .... Learn More
San Lorenzo: A Florentine Church [Hardback]
Robert W. Gaston (Editor); Louis A. Waldman (Editor)
£79.95ISBN: 9780674975675
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: Villa I Tatti Series
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzo's history, extending from its Early Christian foundation to the modern era. Brunelleschi's rebuilt Basilica, the center ... .... Learn More
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