Art & Architecture

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9780300232141
Published by : Yale University Press
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Although perspective has long been considered one of the essential developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval sculptors were already employing knowledge of optic... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781606065785
Published by : Getty Trust Publications
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What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783273331
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: v. 14
Images and imagery played a major role in medieval political thought and culture, but their influence has rarely been explored. This book provides a full assessment of the subject. Starting with an examination of the writings of late twelfth-centu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780712352123
Published by : British Library
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Illuminated manuscripts from England and France are among the greatest masterpieces of medieval European art. This beautiful new book showcases dozens of the finest examples, many of which have never before been exhibited and are rarely reproduced... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783273348
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: History of the University of Cambridge
Volume: v. 8
The people of medieval Cambridge chose to be remembered after their deaths in a variety of ways - through prayers, Masses and charitable acts, and by tomb monuments, liturgical furnishings and other gifts. The colleges of the university, alongside... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783273539
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Church towers are a prominent feature of the English landscape and stand as a testament to the skill and ingenuity of medieval masons. The Northern Province, namely the ecclesiastical province of York, contains a rich and varied array of these rem... .... Learn More