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The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 4064

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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.

Savannah
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

Savannah

Jean Rolin's Savannah is an elegy of sorts to his close friend British fashion photographer, Kate Barry, retracing the trip they took together through the American South. Rolin's immense descriptive talent, his minute topographical detail, and his poetic, documentary writing come together in a work that looks as much to keep death at a distance as to confront it directly.

Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 423

Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Contains thirty-three papers, twelve with illustrations, by leading scholars in Medieval Codicology and Iconography, in Humanist Translations and in Medieval French, Early English, and Medieval Irish Literatures. Each throws new light on particular problems in a specialism.

France in Flux
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

France in Flux

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The changing look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French culture since the 1980s. This collection of essays explores concern with space across a range of media, from recent cinema, documentary filmmaking and photographic projects to television drama and contemporary fiction, and examines what it reveals about the fluctuating state of the nation in a post-colonial and post-industrial age.

Our Dogs, Our Selves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

Our Dogs, Our Selves

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-12
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.

The Hours of Simon de Varie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

The Hours of Simon de Varie

  • Categories: Art

Leading French painters in the late medieval period executed miniatures for lavishly illuminated books of hours. In the mid-fifteenth century, Simon de Varie commissioned such a book. Completed in 1455, it included five priceless works by the most eminent French painter of the time, Jean Fouquet, as well as other striking paintings by two of his contemporaries. In the seventeenth century, Simon de Varie's book was divided into three sections and sold as separate volumes. Two of these volumes are today in the Royal Library in The Hague. The third volume--thought lost until 1984, when it surfaced in a private collection and was subsequently acquired by the Getty Museum--contains the first mini...

The Brussels Horloge de Sapience: Iconography and Text of Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, Ms. IV 111
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

The Brussels Horloge de Sapience: Iconography and Text of Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, Ms. IV 111

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-10-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The book discusses principally the iconography and text of a mid 15th century copy of the mystical treatise Horloge de Sapience in the most sumptuously illuminated ms. known of the text. Each of the 36 illuminations is discussed in turn, with reference to their pictorial traditions, to the French textual matter and to a unique contemporary commentary, called the Déclaration des hystoires. The Déclaration is one of the earliest essays in the history of art criticism to survive. The study is rendered useful for teachers and scholars by an English translation of the text of the Déclaration, which enables the reader to see the illustrations through the eyes of a 15th century critic.

Maps and Territories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Maps and Territories

The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in France as elsewhere, the destabilizing of senses of place, identity, and belonging, as once familiar, local environments are increasingly de-localized and made porous to global trends and planetary preoccupations. Maps and Territories identifies such preoccupations as a fundamental underlying impetus for the contemporary French novel.

120 Great Paintings from Medieval Illuminated Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 131

120 Great Paintings from Medieval Illuminated Books

Presents a collection of images from Medieval illuminated manuscripts, along with a DVD which contains each image in three different sizes to use in a variety of clip art projects.