Art & Architecture
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Medieval Image-Concepts and the Meaning of Visual Programs [Hardback]
Beat Brenk (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828739
Published by : Pindar Press
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This volume presents a selection of 25 studies which are grouped into a number of topics on late-Antique and medieval art. The art of the Middle Ages is treated not as a succession of styles, but is analysed as an unstable value... .... Learn More -
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 -
Studies in Late Medieval Illumination and Art [Hardback]
Robert G. Calkins (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597407
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Robert G. Calkins is Professor of History of Art at Cornell University. He has worked for nearly forty years on medieval manuscript illumination. This volume brings together eighteen of his papers, concentrating on late medieval manuscript illumin... .... Learn More -
Design and Techniques in Early Medieval Celtic Metalwork [Hardback]
Niamh Whitfield (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597339
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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 -
The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation [Hardback]
Warwick Rodwell (Author); David S. Neal (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789252347
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 -
Twelfth-Century Sculptural Finds at Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Thomas Becket [Hardback]
Carolyn Marino Malone (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789252309
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 -
Lombard Legacy: Cultural Strategies and the Visual Arts in Early Medieval Italy [Hardback]
John Mitchell (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597346
Published by : Pindar Press
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 -
Arquitectura religiosa en el espacio rural del Reino de Sevilla: Análisis edilicio, constructivo y estructural en la Sierra de Aracena durante los siglos XIII–XV [Paperback]
Omar Romero de la Osa Fernandez (Author)
Regular Price: £39.00
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ISBN: 9781407316727
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The expansion of the Christian kingdoms through the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages prompted a change in social norms and customs, resulting from the double process of conquest and colonisation. Architecture was one manifestation of the desir... .... Learn More -
Commemoration in Medieval Cambridge [Hardback]
John S. Lee (Editor); Christian Steer (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
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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 -
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
