Author: Eleanor Shipley DuckettPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472061570
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age
Carolingian Portraits
Author: Eleanor Shipley DuckettPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472061570
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age
Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians
Author: Thomas F. X. NoblePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus commenced the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its violent course until 787, when the underlying issues were temporarily resolved at the Second Council of Nicaea. In 815, a second great wave of iconoclasm was set off, only to end in 842 when the icons were restored to the churches of the East and the iconoclasts excommunicated. The iconoclast controversies have long been understood as marking major fissures between the Western and Eastern churches. Thomas F. X. Noble reveals that the lines of division were not so clear. It is traditionally maintained that the Carolingians in the 790s did not understand the basic issues involved in the Byzantine dispute. Noble contends that there was, in fact, a significant Carolingian controversy about visual art and, if its ties to Byzantine iconoclasm were tenuous, they were also complex and deeply rooted in central concerns of the Carolingian court. Furthermore, he asserts that the Carolingians made distinctive and original contributions to the whole debate over religious art. Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of the Western response to Byzantine iconoclasm. By comparing art-texts with laws, letters, poems, and other sources, Noble reveals the power and magnitude of the key discourses of the Carolingian world during its most dynamic and creative decades.
Carolingian Portraits
Author: Eleanor Shipley DuckettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carolingians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Catherine E. KarkovPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843830597
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The author argues that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so much a feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom."--BOOK JACKET.
Carolingian Art
Author: Roger Packman HinksPublisher: [Ann Arbor, Mich.] : University of Michigan Press
ISBN:
Category : Art, Carolingian
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts, and Architecture
Author: Herbert SchutzPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004131491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This book is an attempt to focus where pertinent on the Carolingian cultural inventory produced and assembled in the libraries, museums and architectural sites of Central Europe. This inventory allows conclusions which demonstrate the originality of the literary, artistic and architectural efforts.
Carolingian Chronicles
Author: Bernhard Walter ScholzPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472061860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire
Carolingian Painting
Author: Joachim E. GaehdePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Cross, the Image, and the Passion in Carolingian Thought and Art
Author: Celia Martin ChazellePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Carolingian
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200
Author: Charles Reginald DodwellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064933
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art--from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics, and embroidery--and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. Dodwell describes the rise and development of some of the great styles of the Middle Ages: Carolingian art, which ranged from the splendid illuminations appropriate to an emperor's court to drawings of great delicacy; Anglo-Saxon art, which had a rare vitality and finesse; Ottonian art with its political and spiritual messages; the colorful Mozarabic art of Spain, which had added vigor through its interaction with the barbaric Visigoths; and the art of Italy, influenced by the styles of Byzantium and the West. Dodwell concludes with an examination of the universal Romanesque style of the twelfth century that extended from the Scandinavian countries in the north to Jerusalem in the south. His book--which includes the first exhaustive discussion of the painters and craftsmen of the time, incorporates the latest research, and is filled with new ideas about the relations among the arts, history, and theology of the period--will be an invaluable resource for both art historians and students of the Middle Ages.