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Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art
In this original and lucid account of how Spanish painters of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to "represent the unrepresentable", Victor Stoichita aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and one for the Spanish Counter-Reformation in particular. He reveals how the spirituality of the Counter-Reformation was characterized by a rediscovery of the role of the imagination in the exercise of faith. This had important consequences for painters such as Velazquez, Zurbaran and El Greco, leading to the development of ingenious solutions for visual depictions of mystical experience. This was to crystallize into an overtly meditative and didactic pictorial language. That Spanish painting is both cerebral and passionate is due to the particular historical forces which shaped it. Stoichita's account will be of crucial interest not just to scholars of Spanish art but to anyone interested in how art responds to ideological pressures.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
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.
Integral Palaeography
A collection of articles by Leonard Boyle focusing on the central theme of medieval historical writing and how to study it. Boyle looks at the different approaches taken by British, French and German ascholars, and the many ways in which scholars identify authors and their works and analyse compositions, viewing medieval books as an archaeological artefact. Text in French and English.
Rituals, Images, and Words
The focus of this collection is on processes of cultural communication in late medieval/early modern European society and the part which these resources play in shaping community and fashioning self and group identity.
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