Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
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Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
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Notices on the Models, Charts and Drawings Relating to the Works of the "Ponts Et Chaussées" and the Mines
Author: France. Ministère des travaux publicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Standard Books
Author: Charles Frederick TweneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Art and Archaeology
Author: Outlines of the History of Architecture ...
Author: Rexford NewcombPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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General Catalogue
Author: Oxford University PressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Dark Mirror
Author: Sara LiptonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805079106
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle Ages The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel—the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symbols for identifying Jews. Yet, hateful as these depictions were, the story they tell is not as simple as it first appears. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Lipton argues that these visual stereotypes were neither an inevitable outgrowth of Christian theology nor a simple reflection of medieval prejudices. Instead, she maps out the complex relationship between medieval Christians' religious ideas, social experience, and developing artistic practices that drove their depiction of Jews from benign, if exoticized, figures connoting ancient wisdom to increasingly vicious portrayals inspired by (and designed to provoke) fear and hostility. At the heart of this lushly illustrated and meticulously researched work are questions that have occupied scholars for ages—why did Jews becomes such powerful and poisonous symbols in medieval art? Why were Jews associated with certain objects, symbols, actions, and deficiencies? And what were the effects of such portrayals—not only in medieval society, but throughout Western history? What we find is that the image of the Jew in medieval art was not a portrait of actual neighbors or even imagined others, but a cloudy glass into which Christendom gazed to find a distorted, phantasmagoric rendering of itself.
Architectural Record
Author: "The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca 1095-1130 "
Author: Dorothy F. GlassPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351540580
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Entirely original in its methodology, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of Romanesque fa?e sculpture. Declining to revisit questions of artistic personalities, artistic style and connoisseurship, Dorothy F. Glass delves instead into the historical and historiographical context for a group of significant monuments erected in Italy between the last decade of the eleventh century and the first third of the twelfth century. In her reading, local culture takes precedence over names, context over connoisseurship; she argues that it was the cultural, intellectual and religious life of the abbeys of San Benedetto Po and Nonantola that provided the framework for the Reformist ethos of much of the sculpture adorning the cathedral of Modena. Glass argues that the monuments are deeply rooted in the concerns of the reform of the church, more commonly known as the Gregorian Reform, that these reform ideas and ideals were first fomented in monastic communities and then adopted by the new cathedrals built in cities that, freed of submission to imperial German rule, had recently rejoined the papal fold. The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca 1095-1130: History and Patronage of Romanesque Fa?es moves scholarship beyond continuously reiterated opinions concerning style, attribution, chronology, origins and influence, instead opening new and fruitful lines of inquiry into the patronage and historical significance of these extraordinary monuments.
Outlines of the History of Architecture: Medieval architecture
Author: Rexford NewcombPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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