Author: Sharon Rose ParkPublisher:
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Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Three Ivory Triptychs
Author: Sharon Rose ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Three Ivory Triptychs
Author: Sharon Rose ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ivories, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art
Author: Liz JamesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351871099
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as well as one of the most popular, and the overall aim of the book is to reflect on the exhibition of Byzantine art, both as an academic and popular exercise, and through the choice and discussion of individual objects. Exhibitions present a very different picture of Byzantium and its culture from works of history. The choices of object for display, their arrangement, and the underlying aims of exhibition curators and designers mean that every exhibition presents a different picture of Byzantium. Particular emphases can be placed, whether on everyday life or high court culture; Constantinople or the provinces; or claims of continuity or change over the Byzantine millennium. The essays explore aspects of the image of Byzantium that results from these choices. Given the enormous popularity of exhibitions of Byzantine objects (continued after the completion of this volume by exhibitions in Paris, Bonn and Istanbul), art has become one of the most popular and accessible means of popularizing Byzantium to a wide public audience. Hitherto there has been no general consideration of either the historiography of Byzantine exhibitions or the ways in which they have been set up to present different aspects of Byzantine culture to an academic and general public. The essays are divided into 3 sections: Exhibiting Byzantium sets the 2009 exhibition into the context of other exhibitions of Byzantine art and considers the issues involved in curating and viewing such major collections of medieval art; Object Lessons offers a set of studies of individual objects that were in the exhibition; Byzantium through its Art moves to consider Byzantine art more widely, thinking about the different ways in which objects can be used to study Byzantine culture and society. These are preceded by an introduction by the editors which sets the volume in context.
Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland Before the Thirteenth Century
Author: John Romilly AllenPublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Medieval Ivory Carvings
Author: Paul WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"The first volume of a new catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of medieval ivory carvings, covering the years 400-1200, appeared in 2010. The present two volumes complete the catalogue, taking in every piece carved between about 1200 and 1550; and it is satisfying to report that a further volume, on the post-medieval ivories, was published by my colleague Marjorie Trusted in 2013."--Preface, p. 9.
Daily Living in the Twelfth Century, Based on the Observations of Alexander Neckam in London and Paris
Author: Urban T. Holmes (Jr.)Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299008543
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This is a book for all who are curious to know how it was to live in another time. It presents a new approach to the study of medieval life: first, it concentrates on a 50-year period, 1150-1200, not making the usual broad generalizations about the Middle Ages as though they were a single, homogeneous era; second, it presents medieval life through the experience of a medieval man. The reader goes on a journey with Alexander Neckham, rides the amounts he rode, lodges at hospices such as might have received him, walks the streets of London and Paris as Alexander found them, and visits the schools and baronial estates that he might have visited. Mr. Holmes draws steadily upon his wide, varied, and accurate knowledge of medieval literature -- Latin, French, and English -- to say nothing of iconography, painting, and architecture. The reader has a sense of being guided by two men familiar with the ground, one a medieval man, the other a modern expert. - Back cover.
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Author: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)Publisher:
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Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Stein/Silex - Trachtbestandteile - Grab/Gräberfeld.
Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume
Author: Augustus Welby Northmore PuginPublisher: London : H. G. Bohn
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume. With Extracts from the Works of Durandus, Georgius, Bona, Catalani, Gerbert, Martene, Molanus, Thiers, Mabillon, Ducange (etc.) Translated by Bernard Smith
Author: August Welby PuginTriptych
Author: S. C. MitchellPublisher: Lake Scrawls Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A sexy superhero romantic adventure, Tryptich was the winner of the 2019 Book Buyers Best contest and the 2020 Write Touch Readers Award. Tryptich was also a finalist for the 2019 Carolyn Readers' Choice Award and the 2020 Uncaged Magazine's Raven Award. For most of her life Maggie O’Donnell dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Instead, she ended up flying the Xi Force super jet. Not a bad trade-off. And when she inherits the powers of the Irish goddess Morrigan, she steps into an even bigger role with the super team. But an ancient enemy rises with the inheritance of her new superpowers, one who’s out to destroy her and anyone close to her. Paul Tompkins is leader of Pike’s rangers, the Xi Force support team. Required to keep Maggie in the friend zone because of his job, her new position in Xi Force suddenly changes everything. But as their friendship sparks into burning passion, an alien invasion force and Maggie’s new nemesis combine to threaten Earth. Rising to meet this new challenge will take everything Maggie, Paul, and Xi Force have. Can love bloom amidst an invasion from outer space?