Author: Otto PächtPublisher:
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Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Essais en l'honneur de Jean Porcher
Author: Otto PächtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Jan van Eyck and Portugal's 'Illustrious Generation'
Author: Barbara von BarghahnPublisher: Pindar Press
ISBN: 1915837049
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 887
Book Description
This book investigates Jan Van Eyck's patronage by the Crown of Portugal and his role as diplomat-painter for the Duchy of Burgundy following his first voyage to Lisbon in 1428-1429, when he painted two portraits of Infanta Isabella, who became the third wife of Philip the Good in 1430. New portrait identifications are provided for the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and its iconographical prototype, the lost Fountain of Life. These altarpieces are analysed with regard to King Joao I's conquest of Ceuta, achieved by his sons, who were hailed as an "illustrious generation." Strong family ties between the dynastic houses of Avis and Lancaster explain Lusitania's sustained fascination with Arthurian lore and the Grail quest. Several chapters of this book are overlaid with a chivalric veneer. A second "secret mission" to Portugal in 1437 by Jan van Eyck is postulated and this diplomatic visit is related to Prince Henry the Navigator's expedition to Tangier and King Duarte's attempts to forge an alliance with Alfonso V of Aragon. Late Eyckian commissions are reviewed in the light of this ill-fated crusade and additional new portraits are identified. The most significant artist of Renaissance Flanders appears to have been patronized as much by the House of Avis as by the Duchy of Burgundy. Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders. In 1993, she was conferred O Grao Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. She has spent nearly a decade completing research about Jan van Eyck's diplomatic visits to the Iberian Peninsula.
Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought
Author: Barbara C. RawPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521553711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An illustrated study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period.
Fixers
Author: Zrinka StahuljakPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226830411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: the fixer. With this language, Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators and interpreters played as mediators of entire cultures—insider informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and political players. Fixers offers nothing less than a new history of literature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective not of the author or state but of the fixer.
Ars Sacra New Edition
Author: Peter LaskoPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300060483
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The book traces the unbroken development of the Sacred Arts and their interrelationships throughout Europe from the Renovatio of the arts - the 'Rebirth of Antiquity' - encouraged under the Emperor Charlemagne in the late eighth century, until a renewed and fresh appreciation of the natural world - the Gothic - began to replace the powerful stylisations and the last vestiges of the classical tradition of the Romanesque in the early thirteenth century.
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University: Elc - Furq
Author: Avery LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The Art of Illumination
Author: Timothy HusbandPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392945
Category : Belles heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University
Author: Avery LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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The Practice of Art History
Author: Otto PächtPublisher: Harvey Miller
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This is a classic essay on how to approach the subject of art history. Pächt aims to sharpen perceptions by recreating the social and cultural context in which an art object was made.