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Origin of Christian church art, new facts and principles of research / by Josef Strzygowski; eight lectures delivered for the Olaus-Petri Foundation at Upsala, to which is added a chapter on Christian art in Britain; translated from the German by O.M. Dalton, M.A., and H.J. Braunholtz, M.A.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strzygowski, Josef, 1862-1941.
- Standardized Title:
- Ursprung der christlichen Kirchenkunst. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Church architecture.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 267 pages, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece, 46 plates on 28 leaves ; 27 cm
- 4to.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1923.
- Contents:
- 1. The new horizon
- 2. Community, church, and court
- 3. Local variation in the early Christian vaulted architecture of the East
- 4. The succession of periods in Western architecture
- 5. Religions without representational art
- 6. Non-representational church art, and the subsequent anti-representational movement
- 7. The triumph of representational art: Hellensim, Semitism, Mazdaism
- 8. Systematic investigation of essential character and application of the comparative method
- 9. Hiberno-Saxon art in the time of Bede
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Strzygowski, Josef, 1862-1941. Ursprung der christlichen Kirchenkunst. English. Origin of Christian church art.
- OCLC:
- 1105730
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