A companion to medieval art : Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe / edited by Conrad Rudolph.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rudolph, Conrad, 1951- editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to art history.

Blackwell companions to art history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Medieval--Europe, Northern.

Art, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1437 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Massachusetts : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Summary:

A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars. Covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Features an international and ambitious range - from reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, and pilgrimage art, to gender, patronage, the marginal, spolia, and manuscript illumination.

Contents:

Cover; Blackwell Companions to Art History; Title Page; Copyright; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; 1: Introduction: A Sense of Loss: An Overview of the Historiography of Romanesque and Gothic Art; The Pre-History of Medieval Art Historiography; The Reformation and its Aftermath; The Age of the Enlightenment; Romanticism; Nineteenth-century Non-Romantic Developments; The Later Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century; The Twentieth Century; Concluding Remarks; Notes; 2: Vision; Notes; Bibliography; 3: Reception of Images by Medieval Viewers; Notes

Bibliography4: Narrative; Notes; Bibliography; 5: Formalism; Notes; Bibliography; 6: Gender and Medieval Art; Women Artists; Hildegard of Bingen and Herrad of Hohenbourg; Women Patrons; The Role of Women in the Use of Devotional Images; Monastic Architecture for Women; The Female Image in Romanesque and Gothic Art; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 7: Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; Notes; Bibliography; 8: Art and Exegesis; Definitions and Period Terminology; Scriptural Exegesis; Historiography of Art and Exegesis

Three Conceptions of the Study of Art and ExegesisPostscript: Art and Exegesis in the Later Middle Ages; Notes; Bibliography; 9: Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art; Shaping the Canon: Suger and St Denis; Agency and Patronage; Patron, Artist, and Agency; Hierarchies of Agency, Webs of Production; Gifts and Patronal Identity Politics; Representing Agency: Donor Imagery; Motivating Patronal Agency: Power and Family; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; 10: Collecting (and Display); Introduction; Collecting in the Middle Ages: The Treasury

State of Research and ProspectsFrom Medieval Treasures to Cabinets of Curiosity; Medieval Curiositas and Curiosities; Manipulating the Objects: Memory Made Visible; Notes; Bibliography; 11: The Concept of Spolia; History; Historiography; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 12: The Monstrous; St Bernard and the Critique of the Monstrous; Ornament and Formalism; Monstrous Iconography; Psychology and the Apotropaic; Popular Culture; Ideology, Race, and Gender; Vision, Imagination, and Memory; A Response to St Bernard; Conclusion: A Monstrous Methodology; Notes; Bibliography

13: Making Sense of Marginalized Images in Manuscripts and Religious ArchitectureThe Battle Over the Meaning of Monsters; The Return of the Repressed; From Romanesque to Gothic, From Monstrous to Droll; Closer Readings, Case Studies; Margins and Marginality; Notes; Bibliography; 14: Romanesque Architecture; Political Units and Stylistic Subdivisions; Secular Buildings; Boundaries; Romanesque and Gothic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 15: Romanesque Sculpture in Northern Europe; Phase I, The Age of the Antiquarian; Phase II, The Age of Structure; Phase III, The Age of Theory

Phase IV, The Age of Modernism

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781444357226

1444357220

OCLC:

778339193