Author: Stephen Hart
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843835339
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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While the terms used to describe the tracery of medieval church windows are familiar (Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular), there has been no really detailed attempt to examine it as a distinct, stylistic architectural form, a gap which this book seeks to address. Based upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving types and styles from churches throughout England, it traces the progression of ideas and the continuity of motifs and themes in tracery patterns from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, showing how different themes emerged within the main architectural styles; it also looks at the distinction between a window's architectural form and its tracery style, and describes the several different tracery techniques. The volume is completed with a detailed glossary. Stephen Hart is a retired architect, and the author of numerous works, including Flint Flushwork.
Author: Jon Cannon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 074781533X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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Britain is a treasure trove of medieval architecture. Almost every village and town in the land has a church that was built during the period, whose history is legible – to those who know how to look – in every arch, capital, roof vault, and detail of window tracery. By learning how to identify the stylistic phases that resulted from shifts in architectural fashion, it is possible to date each part of a church to within a decade or two; this book introduces all the key features of each succeeding style, from Anglo-Saxon and Norman through to the three great gothic styles, Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular. It will be indispensable to anyone who enjoys exploring medieval churches, and who wants to understand and appreciate their beauty more deeply.
Author: Colum Hourihane
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195395360
Category : Architecture, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 4064
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This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
Author: Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Laura Cleaver
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004422331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
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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.
Author: Richard Marks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134967500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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First published in 1993. The first modern study of the medium, this book considers stained glass in relation to architecture and other arts, and by examining contemporary documents, it throws valuable light on workshop organisation, prices and patronage.
Author: Matthew Champion
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473503639
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms, curses, windmills, word puzzles, architectural plans and heraldic designs. Drawing on examples from surviving medieval churches in England, the author gives a voice to the secret graffiti artists: from the lord of the manor and the parish priest to the people who built the church itself. Here are strange medieval beasts, knights battling unseen dragons, ships sailing across lime-washed oceans and demons who stalk the walls. Latin prayers for the dead jostle with medieval curses, builders’ accounts and slanderous comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon. Strange and complex geometric designs, created to ward off the ‘evil eye’ and thwart the works of the devil, share church pillars with the heraldic shields of England’s medieval nobility.
Author: Warwick Rodwell
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445620006
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 573
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The definitive work on church archaeology.
Author: A. Freeman Smith
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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"English Church Architecture of the Middle Ages: An Elementary Handbook" by A. Freeman Smith is a must-read for anyone interested in architecture and art. The book examines the way churches were designed during Medieval times when religion was a dominant force in the world. It gives an outline of the leading characteristics of Gothic Architecture, as found in churches of the Middle Ages in England. And it is hoped that it may be found useful to those visiting those noble buildings.
Author: William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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