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A companion to medieval art : Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe / edited by Conrad Rudolph.
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- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to art history ; 2.
- Blackwell companions to art history ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Medieval--Europe, Northern.
- Art, Medieval.
- Northern Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 676 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.
- Summary:
- A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the architecture, manuscript illumination, and sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods in Northern Europe. Comprising 30 original theoretical and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars, the volume covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives.The book is international in scope and ambitious in its range, including coverage of reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, the marginal, and spolia, as well as architecture, painting, and sculpture. This Companion will be a prized reference work for anyone studying this reinvigorated period of art history.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: A Sense of Loss: An Overview of the Historiography of Romanesque and Gothic Art / Conrad Rudolph 1
- 2 Vision / Cynthia Hahn 44
- 3 Reception of Images by Medieval Viewers / Madeline Harrison Caviness 65
- 4 Narrative / Suzanne Lewis 86
- 5 Formalism / Linda Seidel 106
- 6 Gender and Medieval Art / Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz 128
- 7 Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Herbert L. Kessler 151
- 8 Art and Exegesis / Christopher G. Hughes 173
- 9 Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art / Jill Caskey 193
- 10 Collecting (and Display) / Pierre Alain Mariaux 213
- 11 The Concept of Spolia / Dale Kinney 233
- 12 The Monstrous / Thomas E. A. Dale 253
- 13 Making Sense of Marginalized Images in Manuscripts and Religious Architecture / Laura Kendrick 274
- 14 Romanesque Architecture / Eric Fernie 295
- 15 Romanesque Sculpture in Northern Europe / Colum Hourihane 314
- 16 Modern Origins of Romanesque Sculpture / Robert A. Maxwell 334
- 17 The Historiography of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination / Adam S. Cohen 357
- 18 The Study of Gothic Architecture / Stephen Murray 382
- 19 Gothic Sculpture from 1150 to 1250 / Martin Buchsel 403
- 20 Gothic Manuscript Illustration: The Case of France / Anne D. Hedeman 421
- 21 Glazing Medieval Buildings / Elizabeth Carson Pastan 443
- 22 Toward a Historiography of the Sumptuous Arts / Brigitte Buettner 466
- 23 East Meets West: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States / Jaroslav Folda 488
- 24 Gothic in the East: Western Architecture in Byzantine Lands / Tassos C. Papacostas 510
- 25 Architectural Layout: Design, Structure, and Construction in Northern Europe / Marie-Therese Zenner 531
- 26 Sculptural Programs / Bruno Boerner 557
- 27 Cistercian Architecture / Peter Fergusson 577
- 28 Art and Pilgrimage: Mapping the Way / Paula Gerson 599
- 29 "The Scattered Limbs of the Giant": Recollecting Medieval Architectural Revivals / Tina Waldeier Bizzarro 619
- 30 The Modern Medieval Museum / Michelle P. Brown 639.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1405102861
- OCLC:
- 62322358
- Publisher Number:
- 9781405102865
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