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  • Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

    by Alexa Sand ...
    This book investigates the 'owner portrait' in the context of late medieval devotional books primarily from France and England. These mirror-like pictures of praying book owners respond to and help develop a growing concern with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterized the religious life of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. The image of the praying book owner translated ... Read more

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  • Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims

    by Roger Rosewell ...
    Series Book 797 - Shire Library
    In the Middle Ages, it was thought that praying at the right shrine could save you from just about anything, from madness and famine to false imprisonment and even shipwreck. Kingdoms, cities, and even individual trades had patron saints that would protect them from misfortune and bring them wealth and prosperity, and their feast days were celebrated with public holidays and pageants. With saints ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Illuminator's Palette: A Study of Pre-Seventeenth Century Pigments for Medieval Book Art

    by Britni Patterson ...
    Frustrated by the lack of a concise compilation of research into the pigments used by medieval artists for painting various works of art, Britni Patterson decided to create one as a reference for all students of the historical art of illumination.Taking advantage of the newest techniques of manuscript analysis, this monograph compiles not only the information found in medieval treatises, but also ... Read more

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  • Romanesque Art and Icons + Other Iconographic Studies

    by Steven Bigham ...
    This book is a collection of studies on the general theme of Orthodox icons. 1) As the title of the book indicates, the first article deals with the similarity between religious images of the Romanesque period (900-1200) in Western Europe and Orthodox icons. As the difference between icons and later Western religious images—Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque etc.—is felt first on the intuitive and then ... Read more

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  • Tintoretto

    Tradition and Identity, Second Expanded Edition

    by Tom Nichols ...
    The Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. Critics and writers such as Vasari, Ruskin and Sartre all placed him in opposition to the established artistic practice of his time, noting that he had abandoned the values that typified the venerable Venetian Renaissance tradition. He was even expelled as an apprentice from the workshop of Titian.This ... Read more

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  • Circulations in the Global History of Art

    Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel ...
    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a strategy that highlights the processes and connections among cultures, and also responds to the dynamics at work in the current globalized art world. The editors’ introduction provides an ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Byzantine Images and their Afterlives

    Essays in Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr

    Edited by Lynn Jones ...
    The twelve papers written for this volume reflect the wide scope of Annemarie Weyl Carr's interests and the equally wide impact of her work. The concepts linking the essays include the examination of form and meaning, the relationship between original and copy, and reception and cultural identity in medieval art and architecture. Carr’s work focuses on the object but considers the audience, looks ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Early Illustrated Books

    A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries

    by Alfred W. Pollard ...
    In "Early Illustrated Books," Alfred W. Pollard embarks on an illuminating exploration of the intersection between illustration and literature in the formative years of bookmaking. Pollard meticulously delves into the practices that led to the creation of illustrated texts, illuminating the roles of various artisans, publishers, and writers in this artistic endeavor. His analytical lens provides ... Read more

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  • Albrecht Dürer and artworks

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper ... Read more

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  • Medieval Bosa

    The castle and the Palatine Church

    by Fernanda Poli ...
    Series series Sardegna medievale
    The book provides an updated reading on the fortification of the city of Bosa, and the castle church, the Palatine chapel of the judges of Arborea, from an architectural and artistic perspective. Particular attention and emphasis have been placed on the presence inside the sacred building of a cycle almost entirely preserved, a unique example in Sardinia, of fourteenth century frescoes on the ... Read more

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  • Toledo Cathedral

    Building Histories in Medieval Castile

    by Tom Nickson ...
    Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral’s art and architecture.Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Pompeii

    An Archaeological Guide

    by Paul Wilkinson ...
    The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, miraculously preserved, from their layers of volcanic ash. Yet for all the fame and unique importance of the site, there is a surprising lack of a handy archaeological guide in English to reveal and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD