Art & Architecture
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Medieval Rome: A History in Art [Hardback]
John Osborne (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 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 -
Design and Techniques in Early Medieval Celtic Metalwork [Hardback]
Niamh Whitfield (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 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 understanding of its manufa... .... Learn More -
The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation [Hardback]
Warwick Rodwell (Author); David Neal (Author)
Regular Price: £65.00
Special Price: £52.00
ISBN: 9781789252347
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy. They comprise: the ‘Great Pavement’ in the sanctuary; the pavement around the shrine of Edward the Confessor; the saint’s tomb and shrine; Henry III’s tomb; ... .... Learn More -
Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries: Another Image [Hardback]
Borja Franco Llopis (Editor); Antonio Urquizar-Herrera (Editor)
£125.00ISBN: 9789004390164
Published by : Brill
Series: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Volume: 67
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This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity. . By loo... .... Learn More -
Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Materials, Methods, and Expressions [Hardback]
Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz (Editor); Elizabeth Pastan (Editor)
£220.00ISBN: 9789004395725
Published by : Brill
Series: Reading Medieval Sources
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With many excellent books on medieval stained glass available, the reader of this anthology may well ask: "what is the contribution of this collection?" In this book, we have chosen to step away from national, chronological, and regional models. I... .... Learn More -
Book of Beasts - The Bestiary in the Medieval World [Hardback]
Elizabeth Morrison (Author); Larisa Grollemond (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781606065907
Published by : Getty Trust Publications
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Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures, such as the unicorn, siren and griffin; exotic beasts, including the ti... .... Learn More -
Twelfth-Century Sculptural Finds at Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Thomas Becket [Hardback]
Carolyn Malone (Author)
Regular Price: £55.00
Special Price: £44.00
ISBN: 9781789252309
Published by : Oxbow Books
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This study reconstructs twelfth-century sculptural and architectural finds, found during the restoration of the Perpendicular Great Cloister of Christ Church, Canterbury, as architectural screens constructed around 1173. It proposes that the scree... .... Learn More -
Sussex: West [Hardback]
Elizabeth Williamson (Author); Tim Hudson (Author); Jeremy Musson (Author); Ian Nairn (Author); Nikolaus Pevsner (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780300225211
Published by : Yale University Press
Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
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This volume covers some of the finest landscape and architecture in southern England, much of it set within the South Downs National Park. The county's small towns and villages feature a pleasing mix of stone, timber, and brick houses of every per... .... Learn More -
Gothic Sculpture: Eloquence, Craft, and Materials [Hardback]
Paul Binski (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780300241433
Published by : Yale University Press
Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a ... .... 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
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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
