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National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
From Martyr to Monument
After the French Revolution and the dissolution of the monastic orders, the great Abbey of Cluny in France was closed and the buildings were sold for materials. This process went on for nearly thirty years, just as a romantic appreciation of the medieval past was gaining popularity. Although the government was unable to halt most of the demolition work, one transept arm with a large and small tower was saved from ruin, along with a few small Gothic buildings and the eighteenth-century cloister. Efforts to preserve, repair, and reuse the remains waxed and waned for a century while historians wrote with regret about the abbey’s demise. In 1927, Kenneth Conant came from Harvard to excavate th...
Die kölnisch-niederrheinische Spätromanik
Die Kölner Kirchen zwischen 1140 und 1240 gehören zu den architektonischen Meilensteinen ihrer Zeit in Europa. Eine dichte Abfolge von Bauten hoher Qualität begründete eine Architekturentwicklung, die über Köln hinaus in das Rheinland, in das Rhein-Maas-Gebiet, nach Westfalen und an den Mittelrhein gewirkt hat. Als Phänomen hat die Forschung sie als "Kunstlandschaft" und mit Begriffen wie "Spätromanik" und "Übergangsstil" zu greifen versucht und damit festgelegte Sichtweisen transportiert. Diesen Klassifizierungen geht der vorliegende Band nach und hinterfragt damit das Bild, das von der Architektur gezeichnet worden ist, in seiner forschungsgeschichtlichen Problematik als auch angesichts der in den letzten Jahren veränderten Datierungen und ihrer Beziehungsgeflechte. Ausgewiesene Wissenschaftler widmen sich mit neuen Fragestellungen, neuen Befunden und neuen Beobachtungen sowohl den Kölner Bauten als auch der Frage, wie diese im Kontext der Entwicklungen angrenzender Regionen zu würdigen sind.
Memory & Oblivion
Memory is a subject that recently has attracted many scholars and readers not only in the general historical sciences, but also in the special field of art history. However, in this book, in which more than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled, Memory is also juxtaposed to its counterpart, Oblivion, thus generating extra excitement in the exchange of ideas. The papers are presented in eleven sections, each of which is devoted to a different aspect of memory and oblivion, ranging from purely material aspects of preservation, to social phenomena with regard to art collecting, from the memory of the art historian to workshop practices, from art in antiquity, to the newest media, from Buddhist iconography to the Berlin Wall. The book addresses readers in the field of history, history of art and psychology.
Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century
Twenty-seven authors approach the diverse areas of the cultural, religious, and social life of the twelfth century. These essays form a basic resource for all interested in this pivotal century. A reprint of the first edition first published in 1982.
German Gothic Church Architecture
Nussbaum aims to provide a complete overview of German Gothic church architecture between the early 13th and early 16th centuries, looking at Germany, Bohemia, Austria, northern Switzerland, Alsace and Silesia.
Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque
This book presents a fresh perspective on eleventh- and twelfth-century Irish architecture, and a critical assessment of the value of describing it, and indeed contemporary European architecture in general, as “Romanesque”. Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque is a new and original study of medieval architectural culture in Ireland. The book’s central premise is that the concept of a “Romanesque” style in eleventh- and twelfth-century architecture across Western Europe, including Ireland, is problematic, and that the analysis of building traditions of that period is not well served by the assumption that there was a common style. Detailed discussion of importan...
