Author: Charles John Philip Cave
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Bosses (Architecture).
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Get Book

Book Description

Author: Martial Rose
Publisher: A & C Black
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Get Book

Book Description
Norwich Cathedral's magnificent roof bosses are one of the great hidden glories of medieval art. Over 1000 of these carved and painted keystones perch in the high stone vaulting, where they were placed between 1300 and 1515. Linked together in story-telling patterns they reflect a variety of subject - pagan, folk and Christian, the history of the world from the Creation to the Last Judgement, the Apocalypse, the early ministry of Christ and the life and death of John the Baptist. In quality and quantity Norwich's bosses are among the most impressive in Europe, while in their native arrangement they are entirely without parallel in the medieval world. nave and the transcept are too distant to have been fully appreciated by worshippers over the centuries. Until recently their character and detail has been discernible to only a dedicated few from special vantage points or through telescopes and binoculars. This book brings them to the general public through photographs, introduced and fully described in a scholarly text.

Author: Robert A. Faleer
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810867400
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Get Book

Book Description
Church Woodwork in the British Isles, 1100-1535: An Annotated Bibliography is a thoroughly researched bibliographic guide to monographic, serial, archival, and graphical resources that deal with all aspects of late Romanesque, Gothic, and early Renaissance ecclesiastical woodwork in churches throughout the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Dealing with both the decorative and structural elements of wooden church furnishings fittings, this authoritative reference tool includes more than 900 annotated citations for works published from the mid-19th century to the present. The extensive and informative annotations provide a synopsis of each cited resource. Resources are categorized in separate chapters by their specific location in the church, their decorative features, their structural function, or other pertinent criteria. This annotated bibliography represents the most comprehensive reference tool for material that deals with church woodwork that has yet been published.

Author: Raphael Brandon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048615775X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 123

Get Book

Book Description
Excellently framed and designed, with bold, receding arches, the open timber roofs of the medieval period featured massive moldings, carved timbers, and intricate tracery. Today, these roofs are recognized for their striking beauty, rich ornamentation, and the consummate skills of the carpenters and builders who crafted them. This excellent reproduction of a rare nineteenth-century volume includes numerous full-page illustrations and construction details revealing a wealth of information on the major roof styles (tie-beam, trussed rafter, hammer-beam, and collar-braced) of medieval English churches. More than 50 illustrations of 34 English churches are included, among them the exquisite double hammer-beam roof of Knapton Church in Norwich, the richly ornamented roof over Trinity Chapel, Cirencester Church, in Gloucestershire, and the magnificent roof over Wymondham Church, in Norfolk, in which hammer-beams, boldly projecting into the nave, are exquisitely carved into figures of angels with expanding wings. These and many more masterly constructions are captured in the authors' own geometric and perspective drawings (done on-site), superbly reproduced here in detailed, highly accurate engravings. In addition to a wealth of pictorial detail, the authors also provide an informative general introduction to the major types of roof construction, as well as expert commentary on each individual roof, describing its distinguishing characteristics, ornament, measurements, and other details. Artists and illustrators will prize these beautifully rendered plates for their beauty and detail, while architects, antiquarians, and lovers of things medieval will appreciate the authenticity of the plates and the knowledgeable commentary of the architect-authors.

Author: Mary Désirée Anderson
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Get Book

Book Description

Author: Lynn Courtenay
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351890697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399

Get Book

Book Description
The great cathedrals and churches of the medieval West continue to awe. How were they built, and why do they remain standing? What did their builders know about what they were doing? These questions have given rise to considerable controversy, which is fully reflected in the papers selected here. The first section of the book is concerned with the medieval builders and their design methods; the second focuses on engineering issues in the context of the infamous collapse of the choir at Beauvais in 1284. The following papers extend the analysis into the 15th century, looking for example at Brunelleschi’s dome for Florence Cathedral, and deal with the often neglected structures of roofs, towers and spires.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047430077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Get Book

Book Description

Author: Raphael Brandon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Get Book

Book Description

Author: Edward G. Tasker
Publisher: Batsford
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Get Book

Book Description
Reproducing over 900 photographs taken by the author (most using natural light) this is a guide to the themes, origins, symbolism, variations and distribution of medieval church art in the British Isles.

Author: University of Michigan. Museum of Art
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 470

Get Book

Book Description