Author: Otto Pächt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872501765
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on lectures given at the University of Vienna, this book examines all types of book decoration and illumination between late Antiquity and the Renaissance from the point of view of format and style. Pacht explains the basic vocabulary and concepts by which this art-form is to be understood, and offers insights into the philosophy, theology, technology and culture underlying its history. His subjects include pictorial decoration in the organic structure of the book; the initial; bible illustration; didactic miniatures; illustration of the apocalypse; illustration of the psalter; the conflict of surface and space. Now available in paperback.
Book Illumination in the Middle Ages
Author: Otto Pächt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872501765
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on lectures given at the University of Vienna, this book examines all types of book decoration and illumination between late Antiquity and the Renaissance from the point of view of format and style. Pacht explains the basic vocabulary and concepts by which this art-form is to be understood, and offers insights into the philosophy, theology, technology and culture underlying its history. His subjects include pictorial decoration in the organic structure of the book; the initial; bible illustration; didactic miniatures; illustration of the apocalypse; illustration of the psalter; the conflict of surface and space. Now available in paperback.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872501765
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on lectures given at the University of Vienna, this book examines all types of book decoration and illumination between late Antiquity and the Renaissance from the point of view of format and style. Pacht explains the basic vocabulary and concepts by which this art-form is to be understood, and offers insights into the philosophy, theology, technology and culture underlying its history. His subjects include pictorial decoration in the organic structure of the book; the initial; bible illustration; didactic miniatures; illustration of the apocalypse; illustration of the psalter; the conflict of surface and space. Now available in paperback.
Studies in the History of Book Illumination
Author: Carl Adam Johan Nordenfalk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
15 papers on medieval manuscript illumination, from the origins of the art in late antiquity to late medieval French illumination
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
15 papers on medieval manuscript illumination, from the origins of the art in late antiquity to late medieval French illumination
Ottonian Book Illumination
Author: Henry Mayr-Harting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The seminal work, originally published in two seperate clothbound volumes, is now made available in a revised one-volume edition, both in hardback and in paperback. It brings to light an aesthic passage of European history which has never before received full-scale treatment in English. It explains, historically and with a rich body of illustrations, the origins and momentum of a magnificent movement of German art, and shows, through this powerful and expressive art, how religion and political ideaology were interwined in Ottonian culture from about 950 to 1050. Besides dealing with the great imperials books such as the Gospels of Otto III and the Pericopes Book of Henry II, as well as other splendid liturgical manuscripts, the author also writes with penetrating insight about the great art-loving bishops such as Egbert of Trier and Bernard of Hildesheim, whose aims ans personalitites are express in the books they commissioned. In addition, the most important art centres of the Ottonian Empire - Reichenau, Cologne, Fulda and Corvey - are discussed in detail.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The seminal work, originally published in two seperate clothbound volumes, is now made available in a revised one-volume edition, both in hardback and in paperback. It brings to light an aesthic passage of European history which has never before received full-scale treatment in English. It explains, historically and with a rich body of illustrations, the origins and momentum of a magnificent movement of German art, and shows, through this powerful and expressive art, how religion and political ideaology were interwined in Ottonian culture from about 950 to 1050. Besides dealing with the great imperials books such as the Gospels of Otto III and the Pericopes Book of Henry II, as well as other splendid liturgical manuscripts, the author also writes with penetrating insight about the great art-loving bishops such as Egbert of Trier and Bernard of Hildesheim, whose aims ans personalitites are express in the books they commissioned. In addition, the most important art centres of the Ottonian Empire - Reichenau, Cologne, Fulda and Corvey - are discussed in detail.
The Saint John's Bible
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980016505
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980016505
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Early Medieval Book Illumination
Author: Carl Adam Johan Nordenfalk
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Looks at the history of illuminated manuscripts, and shows examples of late Roman, pre-Carolingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian illumination.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Looks at the history of illuminated manuscripts, and shows examples of late Roman, pre-Carolingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian illumination.
Jews Among Christians
Author: Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Publisher: Harvey Miller Pub
ISBN: 9781905375097
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Jews among Christians explores a corpus of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Lake Constance region produced in the first decades of the fourteenth century. The author Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provides a detailed and insightful study of the content, design, and iconography of the illustrations and decorations of a group of Ashkenahzi codices, thereby uncovering a surprising interface between Jews and Christians in the urban workshops of the time. Here, Christian artists would include midrashic components required by their Jewish instructor while drawing on the iconographic traditions of their Christian education, and artists of both religions were able to represent their own theological attitudes as well as profane tendencies and parody - in short, the various aspects of late medieval culture.A close comparison with the well-known Gradual of St. Katharinenthal, now in Zurich, and manuscripts such as the Schocken Bible, formerly in Jerusalem, and the Tripartite Mahzor -- originally bound as two volumes, but now split between Budapest, London and Oxford -- places the corpus firmly in the Lake Constance region and all but confirms the instructor to be one Hayyim, the scribe. The author's discussion of Hayyim's life and work and her historical overview of the relations between Jews and Christians in the final chapters of the book deepens our understanding of the religious and cultural dialogue between the two faiths not only in the production of this group of manuscripts but in the course of every-day life in the Middle Ages.
Publisher: Harvey Miller Pub
ISBN: 9781905375097
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Jews among Christians explores a corpus of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Lake Constance region produced in the first decades of the fourteenth century. The author Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provides a detailed and insightful study of the content, design, and iconography of the illustrations and decorations of a group of Ashkenahzi codices, thereby uncovering a surprising interface between Jews and Christians in the urban workshops of the time. Here, Christian artists would include midrashic components required by their Jewish instructor while drawing on the iconographic traditions of their Christian education, and artists of both religions were able to represent their own theological attitudes as well as profane tendencies and parody - in short, the various aspects of late medieval culture.A close comparison with the well-known Gradual of St. Katharinenthal, now in Zurich, and manuscripts such as the Schocken Bible, formerly in Jerusalem, and the Tripartite Mahzor -- originally bound as two volumes, but now split between Budapest, London and Oxford -- places the corpus firmly in the Lake Constance region and all but confirms the instructor to be one Hayyim, the scribe. The author's discussion of Hayyim's life and work and her historical overview of the relations between Jews and Christians in the final chapters of the book deepens our understanding of the religious and cultural dialogue between the two faiths not only in the production of this group of manuscripts but in the course of every-day life in the Middle Ages.
The Art of Illumination
Author: Timothy Husband
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392945
Category : Belles heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392945
Category : Belles heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Imaging the Early Medieval Bible
Author: John Williams
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271017686
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A unique exploration of the beginnings of biblical illustration and decoration.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271017686
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A unique exploration of the beginnings of biblical illustration and decoration.
Early Medieval Art
Author: Lawrence Nees
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192842435
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192842435
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.
Illuminating the Middle Ages
Author: Laura Cleaver
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004422331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and questions raised in John’s work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John’s commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004422331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and questions raised in John’s work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John’s commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.