Medieval Art
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"That Old Pride of the Men of the Auvergne" - Laity and Church in Auvergnat Romanesque Sculpture [Hardback]
Avital Heyman (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828975
Published by : Pindar Press
The title is an allusion to the description by Suger, Abbot of St. Denis, of the men of the Auvergne. Suger depicts that old pride in a chapter of his Deeds of Louis the Fat, which chronicles the arrival of King Louis VI in the region (1122 and 11... .... Learn More -
Art and Ceremony in Jewish Life: Essays in the History of Jewish Art [Hardback]
Vivian B. Mann (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828968
Published by : Pindar Press
Since turning to the field of Jewish art over twenty years ago, Vivian Mann has concentrated on investigating Jewish ceremonial art within the dual contexts of Jewish law, and the history of decorative arts in general, including the ceremonial art... .... Learn More -
Manuscripts of Iceland [Paperback]
Gisli Sigurasson (Editor); Vesteinn Olason (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9789979819882
Published by : Iceland University Press
A comprehensive and profusely illustrated accompaniment to the exhibition The Manuscripts of Iceland which was organised by the Arni Magnusson Institute and opened in the Culture House in Reykjavik on October 5, 2002. In this collection of art... .... Learn More -
Studies in Imagery vol 1 [Hardback]
Jean Michel Massing (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828517
Published by : Pindar Press
Dr. Jean Michel Massing is a Reader in the History of Art and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. This first volume of Studies in Imagery, Text and Images consists of 25 studies grouped under four sections: Classical Art and it... .... Learn More -
Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments [Hardback]
Willibald Sauerlander (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828999
Published by : Pindar Press
Two volumes collating updated versions of Professor Sauerländer's written work on Romanesque art. Subjects include: structures, problems of classification, the geography of Romanesque art, and its development in Italy and the Empire. .... Learn More -
Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments, Volume I [Hardback]
Willibald Sauerlander (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828289
Published by : Pindar Press
Volumes I and II bring together Professor Sauerländer's papers on Romanesque art, and complement his two previously published volumes in this series on Gothic art.The studies are again grouped around a number of common themes: structures... .... Learn More -
Studies in Carolingian Manuscripts [Hardback]
Florentine Mutherich (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828678
Published by : Pindar Press
For the last forty years Florentine Muetherich has worked as editor of the corpus of Carolingian illuminated manuscripts she has recently published the School of Reims and is currently preparing the Franco-Saxon schools. In addition to her work on... .... Learn More -
Shaping Sacred Space and Institutional Identity in Romanesque Mural Painting: Essays in Honour of Otto Demus [Hardback]
Thomas E. A. Dale (Editor); John Mitchell (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781899828425
Published by : Pindar Press
Romanesque mural painting was arguably the most visible field for religious images in Western churches between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Beyond its traditional justification as Bible of the illiterate mural painting demarcated the pri... .... Learn More -
Donald King's Collected Textile Studies [Hardback]
Anna Muthesius (Editor); Stacie M. King (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828661
Published by : Pindar Press
The late Donald King (d. 1998) was the founding father of textile studies in England. His knowledge of the technology and history of textiles of all periods across many lands remains unsurpassed. An erudite and yet modest scholar, he did much to p... .... Learn More -
Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity [Hardback]
Laura Weigert (Author)
Regular Price: £66.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780801440083
Published by : Cornell University Press
Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively illustrated ... .... Learn More
