The Mystic Ark : Hugh of Saint Victor, art, and thought in the twelfth century / Conrad Rudolph, University of California, Riverside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudolph, Conrad, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141--Criticism and interpretation.

Hugh.

Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141. De arca Noe mystica.

Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141. Mystic ark (Painting).

Art and society--Europe--History--To 1500.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 609 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of Saint Victor's forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources, works of art are not often referred to, let alone described in any detail. Almost completely ignored by art historians because of the immense difficulty of its text, Hugh of Saint Victor's Mystic Ark (c.1125-30) is among the most unusual sources we have for an understanding of medieval artistic culture. Depicting all time, all space, all matter, all human history and all spiritual striving, this highly polemical painting deals with a series of cultural issues crucial in the education of society's elite during one of the great periods of intellectual change in Western history.

Contents:

1. The Mystic Ark lectures

2. The image of The Mystic Ark

3. Conclusion: the Mystic Ark and the multiplication and systematization of imagery

Appendix: translation of the Mystic Ark, with art historical commentary.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-90482-5

1-139-89888-4

1-139-91454-5

1-139-90286-5

1-139-58345-X

1-139-91846-X

1-139-91061-2

1-139-90675-5

1-139-92235-1

OCLC:

881162764