Art & Architecture
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Studies in Arthurian Illustration Volume 1 [Hardback]
Alison Stones (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597377
Published by : Pindar Press
Volume: 1
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century [Hardback]
Luis U Afonso (Editor); Tiago Moita (Editor)
£106.50ISBN: 9781909400597
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
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The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied... .... 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
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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
Medieval Castles of England and Wales [Paperback]
Bernard Lowry (Author)
£8.99ISBN: 9781784422141
Published by : Bloomsbury
Series: Shire Library
Volume: 837
Designed to dominate the surrounding area, to house powerful garrisons, offer sumptuous quarters for local nobility, and to discourage and repel enemy attacks, castles dominated England and Wales for more than half a millennium. Though some were b... .... Learn More
Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace [Paperback]
Joseph Shatzmiller (Author)
£14.95ISBN: 9780691176185
Published by : Princeton University Press
Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material cultur... .... Learn More
The Restoration of Blythburgh Church, 1881-1906 [Hardback]
Alan Mackley (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781783271672
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
In 1881, after decades of mouldering into ruin, the grand fifteenth-century church of Blythburgh, Suffolk, “The Cathedral of the Marshes”, was closed as unsafe. The church was saved - but its rescue involved a bitter twenty-five year long dispute ... .... Learn More
The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century Europe [Paperback]
Kirk Ambrose (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781783272426
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common in medieval art and architecture, from the grotesques in the borders of illuminated manuscripts to the symbol of the "green man", widespread in churches and cathedrals. These myste... .... Learn More
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land: Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance [Hardback]
Kathryn Blair Moore (Author)
£74.99ISBN: 9781107139084
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout ... .... Learn More
Stained Glass at York Minster [Paperback]
Sarah Brown (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781785510731
Published by : Scala Publishers
The 128 windows of York Minster are the eighth wonder of the world; they illustrate the art and craft of glass painting, extending over nine centuries. York is also an international centre for the study and conservation of stained glass, ensuring ... .... Learn More
English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up [Hardback]
Betsy Chunko-Dominguez (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9789004341180
Published by : Brill
Series: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Volume: 9
English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up by Betsy Chunko-Dominguez is the first book to move beyond textual dependence and traditional iconographic analysis when examining misericords. It likewise builds the most thorough dis... .... Learn More
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