Architecture
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Lost East Lothian [Paperback]
Craig Statham(Author)
$21.95ISBN: 9781912476954
Published by : Origin
East Lothian, a unitary authority area including the old county of Haddingtonshire, is one of Scotland's most historic places - John Knox was born in Haddington in the early years of the sixteenth century; important links were forged with the Low ... .... Learn More -
Imagining the Divine: Art in Religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia [Paperback]
Jaś Elsner(Editor); Rachel Wood(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592340
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 234
This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 200−1000), across cultures and regions reaching from India to Iberia, to discuss how objects can inform our understanding of religions. Duri... .... Learn More -
Designs on Death: The Architecture of Scottish Crematoria [Hardback]
Hilary Grainger(Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9781910900307
Published by : John Donald
Despite seven out of ten people in Scotland choosing cremation, in many ways crematoria are ‘invisible’ buildings, visited only by necessity, and they have not received the attention they deserve. Crematoria present a real challenge fo... .... Learn More -
The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy [Hardback]
Paul D. Scotton(Author); Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool(Author); Carolynn Roncaglia(Author)
$150.00ISBN: 9780876610237
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Corinth
Volume: XXII
Early-20th-century explorations of the Roman Forum at Ancient Corinth revealed a massive early imperial building now known as the Julian Basilica. The structure stood on a podium over four meters high, and it dominated the east end of the forum in... .... Learn More -
The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500 [Hardback]
Philippa Turner(Editor); Jane Hawkes(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275526
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: Volume 22
The rood was central to medieval Christianity and its visual culture: Christ's death on the cross was understood as the means by which humankind was able to gain salvation, and depictions of the cross, and Christ's death upon it, were ubiquitous.<... .... Learn More -
Drumlanrig: The Castle, its People and its Paintings [Paperback]
Richard Buccleuch(Author); Fritz von der Schulenburg(Photographer); John Montagu Douglas Scott(Editor)
$16.95ISBN: 9780995756632
Published by : Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
Series: The Buccleuch Houses
Volume: 1
With its picturesque domes, walls of pale pink sandstone and splendid Dumfriesshire setting, Drumlanrig is one of Scotland’s most romantic castles, its story entwined with that of the country itself. Today’s castle was superimposed on ... .... Learn More -
Glazed Brick Decoration in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of a Workshop at the 11th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Munich) in April 2018 [Paperback]
Anja Fügert(Editor); Helen Gries(Editor)
$42.00ISBN: 9781789696059
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
Glazed bricks applied as a new form of colorful and glossy architectural decor first started to appear in the early Iron Age on monumental buildings of the Ancient Near East. It surely impressed the spectators then as it does the museum visitors t... .... Learn More -
The Georgian Churches of Oski and Iskhani: Architecture and Ornament [Hardback]
Dora Piquet-Panayatova(Author)
$240.00ISBN: 9781899828913
Published by : Pindar Press
This study deals with the churches of Oski and Iskhani, in the ancient Georgian province of Tao-Klardeti, now in eastern Turkey. Each church is examined separately, with a focus on the architecture and carved decoration. The architectural sculptur... .... Learn More -
The Fabric Accounts of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, 1292-1396 [Hardback]
Tim Ayers(Editor); Maureen Jurkowski(Editor)
$220.00ISBN: 9781783274444
Published by : Boydell Press
Begun by Edward I in 1292 and finished by Edward III, the rebuilding and decoration of St Stephen's chapel took three reigns and over 60 years to complete (accommodation for the associated college of secular clergy was still under construction in ... .... Learn More -
Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society [Hardback]
Emily A. Winkler(Editor); Liam Fitzgerald(Editor); Andrew Small(Editor)
$75.00ISBN: 9781783274895
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: Volume 18
Material culture played a crucial role in developing the cultural narrative of Norman Sicily. The essays in this book consider how images, designs, artifacts, structures and objects were used to help create the story of the medieval kingdom, and w... .... Learn More
