Medieval Europe (c.1000-1500)
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The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York: A Masterpiece of Tudor Craftsmanship [Hardback]
Peter N. Lindfield (Editor)
Regular Price: £35.00
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ISBN: 9781789257922
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marriage bed, rediscovered in 2010, is an exceptional piece of late medieval English royal furniture: no other equivalent example of secular domestic furniture is known to have survived, and, indeed, precious li... .... Learn More -
Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South [Hardback]
Perri Lee Roberts (Author)
Regular Price: £150.00
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ISBN: 9780915977642
Published by : University of Georgia Press
Conceived in 1993 by Professor Bruce Cole of Indiana University and the late Professor Andrew Ladis of the University of Georgia, the goal of the Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections is to profile and illustrate e... .... Learn More -
Resplendent Faith [Hardback]
Stephen N. Fliegel (Author)
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ISBN: 9780873389792
Published by : Kent State University Press
No work of art can be fully appreciated if divorced from the culture that produced it. This examination of liturgical objects found in the medieval church treasury assesses their artistic technique and method, placing the objects in the context of... .... Learn More -
St George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Late Middle Ages [Hardback]
Colin Richmond (Author); E. Scarff (Author)
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ISBN: 9780953967605
Published by : St George's Chapel
A collection of ten essays taken from a conference entitled `St. George's in the Fifteenth Century' which explore different aspects of the history and architecture of St. George's Chapel, an important Yorkist symbol of culture, religious devoti... .... Learn More -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript: Volume 2 [Paperback]
Susanna Greer Fein (Editor)
Regular Price: £31.50
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ISBN: 9781580441988
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contempora... .... Learn More -
Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece [Paperback]
Jennifer Sliwka (Author)
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ISBN: 9781857095944
Published by : National Gallery of Art
Visions of Paradise showcases new scholarly research on the monumental Palmieri Altarpiece by Francesco Botticini (1446-1498). The painting, which depicts the Assumption of the Virgin, was made for the funerary chapel of the Florentine citizen Mat... .... Learn More -
Touching Objects [Hardback]
Adrian W.B. Randolph (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9780300204780
Published by : Yale University Press
This groundbreaking book spans the fields of art history, material culture, and gender studies in its examination of a range of objects from Italian Renaissance society. Addressing painted and sculpted portraits, marriage and betrothal gifts, and ... .... Learn More -
The New Art of the Fifteenth Century [Hardback]
Shirley Nielsen Blum (Author)
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ISBN: 9780789211927
Published by : Abbeville Press
A fresh look at the early Renaissance, considering Florentine and Netherlandish art as a single phenomenon, at once deeply spiritual and entirely new. Adam and Eve are driven from the Garden of Eden into a rocky landscape, their naked bodies lit b... .... Learn More -
Optics, Ethics, and Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Looking Into Peter of Limoges's Moral Treatise on the Eye [Hardback]
Herbert L. Kessler (Editor)
Regular Price: £90.00
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ISBN: 9780888442093
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies and Texts
Volume: 209
This volume examines afresh the various ways in which the introduction of ancient and Arabic optical theories transformed thirteenth-century thinking about vision, how scientific learning came to be reconciled with theological speculation, and the... .... Learn More -
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages [Hardback]
Karen A. Winstead (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
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ISBN: 9780198707035
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford History of Life-Writing
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, writers from Bede to Chaucer were thinking about life ... .... Learn More
