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Late Gothic Painting in the Crown of Aragon and the Hispanic Kingdoms
Inbunden, 2018
3345 kr
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This book aims to analyze the genesis and evolution of late Gothic painting in the Crown of Aragon and the rest of the Hispanic kingdoms, examining this phenomenon in relation to the whole context of Europe in the second half of the fifteenth century. The authors consider the influence of the …
Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France
The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398)
Inbunden, 2016
2366 kr
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In Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398) Marguerite Keane considers the object collection of the long-lived fourteenth-century French queen Blanche of Navarre, the wife of Philip VI (d. 1350). This queen’s ownership of works of art …
Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne
Inbunden, 2015
2400 kr
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Grief binds the worshipers together in an adagio of sorrow as they encounter the sculptural representation of the Entombment of Christ. Located in funerary chapels, parish churches, cemeteries, and hospitals, these works embody the piety of the later Middle Ages. In this book, Donna Sadler examines …
Our Dogs, Our Selves
Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society
Inbunden, 2016
3465 kr
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The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen …
From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin
The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend
Inbunden, 2014
2400 kr
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According to legend, the Mandylion was an image of Christ’s face imprinted on a towel, kept in Edessa. This acheiopoieton image (“not made by human hands”) disappeared in the eighteenth century. The first records of another acheiropoieton relic appeared in mid-fourteenth century France: a long …
Wounded Cities: The Representation of Urban Disasters in European Art (14th-20th Centuries)
Av Marco Folin
Inbunden, 2015
2606 kr
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Natural hazards punctuate the history of European towns, moulding their shape and identity: this book is devoted to the artistic representation of those calamities, from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. It contains nine case studies which discuss, among others, the relationship between …
Cellini's Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi
Configurations of the Body of State
Inbunden, 2015
2257 kr
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Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa, one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s androgynous appearance is paradoxical. Symbolizing the male ruler overcoming a female adversary, the Perseus legitimizes patriarchal power; but …
Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City
Inbunden, 2017
3358 kr
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Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City offers the first sustained comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city. By considering cities large (Rome) and small …
Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2018
2593 kr
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Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe gathers together an international group of ten scholars, who offer a novel account of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe. This technique was devised in Rome by Sebastiano …
Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives
Inbunden, 2018
3178 kr
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Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion. The volume also addresses the afterlives of objects and buildings in their temporal journeys from the Middle Ages to the present …
Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference
Inbunden, 2017
2714 kr
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This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and decapitation bore a …
English Gothic Misericord Carvings
History from the Bottom Up
Inbunden, 2017
2051 kr
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English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up by Betsy Chunko-Dominguez is the first book to move beyond textual dependence and traditional iconographic analysis when examining misericords. It likewise builds the most thorough discussion to date of the relationship between the …
Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066–1320
Inbunden, 2024
2378 kr
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The medieval treasure house, consisting of sacristy, vestry and treasure rooms was the depository for the ecclesiastical treasure belonging to a church, holy vessels, vestments, altar hangings, candlesticks and priceless liturgical books and reliquaries. It was carefully designed to convey the …
Shroud at Court
History, Usages, Places and Images of a Dynastic Relic
Av Paolo Cozzo
Inbunden, 2019
3039 kr
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The Shroud at the Court analyses, through various essays characterized by a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective, the strict ties created between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Presented as proof of the divine legitimacy of Savoy lineage, the …
Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture
Inbunden, 2019
2413 kr
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Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture is an anthology of the most recent works by Barbara Baert, discussing the connection between the experiences of the senses in the medieval and early modern visual culture, the hermeneutics of imagery, …
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Religious Art for the Urban Community
Inbunden, 2019
2296 kr
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Barbara Kaminska’s Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community is the first book-length study focusing on religious paintings by one of the most captivating Netherlandish artists, long celebrated for his secular imagery. In a period marked by a profound religious, economic, and …
Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries
Av Amy Gillette
Inbunden, 2023
3841 kr
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The early 16th-century baptismal font canopy of the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, is one of only three such structures to survive anywhere in the British Isles. This study, inspired by the recent rediscovery of four attributable panels at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a …
Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art
Inbunden, 2021
2714 kr
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Robert Couzin’s Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art is the first in-depth study of handedness, position, and direction in the visual culture of Europe and Byzantium from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Heretofore largely unnoticed or ignored, the pre-eminence of the right and …
Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture
Av Megan Henvey
Inbunden, 2021
2566 kr
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Bringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated across …
Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer, c. 300-1500 CE
Unfolding Narratives
Inbunden, 2022
2674 kr
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Premodern architecture and built environments were fluid spaces whose configurations and meanings were constantly adapting and changing. The production of transitory meaning transpired whenever a body or object moved through these dynamic spaces. Whether spanning the short duration of a procession …
Type and Archetype in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Inbunden, 2023
2861 kr
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This book addresses typology of Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture in eight wide-ranging contributions from an international group of scholars. A dialogue between type and its ultimate source, archetype, surpasses issues of formalism and conventional chronological narratives to suggest …
Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript Illumination
Inbunden, 2025
2018 kr
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Are there shadows in medieval art? Studies on the role of shadows in art history have either glanced over or ignored the medieval period, yet people of the Middle Ages certainly saw and thought about shadows and recorded their ideas about these phenomena in texts and images.This book examines …
Art, Travel, and Exchange between Iberia and Global Geographies, c. 1400–1550
Inbunden, 2024
2558 kr
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Traditional narratives hold that the art and architecture of the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century were transformed by the arrival of artists, objects, and ideas from northern Europe. The year 1492 has been interpreted as a radical rupture, marking the end of the Islamic presence on the …
Mitre: Its Origins and Early Development
Av Nancy Spies
Inbunden, 2024
2479 kr
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The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After a thousand years of bare heads, the Church finally had an official hat, signaling newly-structured internal dynamics, an increase in power and influence in …
Cittadini of Venice
Shaping Identities between Networks and Patronage (c. 1530-1690)
Av Giulia Zanon
Inbunden, 2024
2539 kr
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In this volume Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social hierarchy and the possibilities for social mobility in pre-modern Italy. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines deep archival research with a multitude of artistic and architectural artefacts, this work breaks new …
Unrepresented: the Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2025
2198 kr
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The study of representational art traditionally focusses on what is represented rather than what is missing. Robert Couzin’s Unrepresented: The Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages is a unique study of figures and attributes left out of the picture. Why avoid depicting the dead body of Christ, …
Medieval Treasures of Toledo Cathedral
Artworks, Relics, Texts, and Textiles
Inbunden, 2026
3067 kr
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With Medieval Treasures of Toledo Cathedral: Artworks, Relics, Texts, and Textiles, the Treasury Project continues exploring how treasuries accommodated the evolving interests of their holders across the Middle Ages. Following up on The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural …
Conrad of Hirsau’s Trees of Vices and Virtues
From De fructu carnis et spiritus to the Speculum virginum
Inbunden, 2025
2829 kr
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Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 – c.1150) created the famous Trees of Vices and Virtues in De fructu carnis et spiritus, which he prepared before 1133 for illiterate lay brothers. This investigation provides an edition and translation of that work and defines its influential images. It also discovers the …
