The 11th and 12th century sculpture at Canterbury provides a wider range of sculptural styles than can be found in any English cathedral. Deborah Kahn here traces the development of the Romanesque from its sources in Northern France and its influences from Germany and Italy, and discusses its interaction with indigenous styles. Her argument is based on extensive use of documents and accounts by contemporaries and above all on the impressive array of photographs which fill the book.

Canterbury Cathedral and its Romanesque Sculpture. (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History) (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 7)

Arts & Photography

Kahn, Deborah

History & Criticism

Harvey Miller Pub

The late 14th and early 15th centuries saw a new style of painting emerging in Northern Europe, the proponents of which included the Van Eyck brothers and the Master Flemalle. Otto Pacht presents his thoughts and observations on these artists and their contemporaries, and on the intellectual and artistic climate of the time. He focuses in particular on the works of the Master of Flemalle, Jan and Hubert van Eyck and The Ghent Altarpiece. Wonderfully illustrated throughout.

Van Eyck and the Founders of Early Netherlandish Painting

Pächt, Otto

Paris was the undisputed centre for commercial manuscript production in Northern Europe at this time and was home to a great number of scribes, illuminators, bookbinders, parchment and paper sellers and so on. This large, two volume book focuses on many different aspects of books and their production, but most particularly on organisation, the craftsmen themselves, their clients, the materials they used and the book trade that they were part of. A major work with enormous amounts of detail.

Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200-1500 (2 Volumes)

Rouse, Richard H.

Rouse, Mary

The first of Harvey Miller's multi-volume Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France provides a definitive reference work for the intensively creative Romaneseque period. This book, produced to the usual high standard, amply illustrates the extent, variety and quality of the manuscripts. An introductory essay is followed by a complete catalogue of the manuscripts and 374 photos.

Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century (2 Vol Set) (Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France)

Cahn, Walter

A new scholarly study of the sculptures found underneath the folding benches in medieval churches. They can be found throughout the country, in small parish churches as well as the well-known examples in Cathedrals such as Exeter, Lincoln and Wells. This study looks at their history, the major themes, and types of scenes portrayed. The book is divided into two parts - a look at the carvers, their inspiration, the concept of comedy and the fool. The second part looks at various types of imagery. The text is brought to life with a huge quantity of excellent photographs.

The World Upside-Down: English Misericords

Grössinger, Christa

History

The twelfth-century Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela is the earliest account of the pilgrim's route through France and Northern Spain to the shrine of St James. Surviving in twelve copies, the text describes points of interest along the routes and the relics of saints, and offers details of where travellers may find accomodation and good food and wine. This excellently produced volume gives a new English translation of the Guide, from the origianl Latin, based on the Codex Calixtinus or Liber Sancti Jacobi kept in the cathedral of Santiago. This is followed by an extensive gazetteer consisting of 730 entries, in which all the important towns, monuments, and buildings encountered by the 12th-century traveller are described and illustrated.

The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago De Compostela: A Gazetter (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 13)

Stones, Alison

Shaver-Crandell, Annie

The paintings that Rubens devoted to the theme of the youth of Christ are among the most impressive and influential examples of art that expressed Roman Catholic spirituality as reasserted at the Council of Trent. The vast majority of these works are his numerous images of the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Magi. The oldest sources for these and other scenes from Christ's youth are of course the accounts of the Gospels, but these were usefully completed by several supplementary descriptions, more especially the Apocrypha, patristic literature, and the pious legends woven around the birth of Christ in the course of the Middle Ages.In his interpretations of the scenes from Christ's youth, Rubens built to a large extent on a pictorial tradition that had developed in the Low Countries and Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in which mediaeval views and patterns originating from Northern Europe had merged with those of the Italian Renaissance. In Rubens's representations of scenes from Christ's youth, and especially in his many interpretations of the themes of the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Magi, the ideas of Counter-Reformation iconography found their most explicit embodiment in the clear Eucharistic connotations that are present in these works.

The Life of Christ Before the Passion: The Youth of Christ (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, 5)

Vlieghe, Hans

Devisscher, Hans

Based on lectures given at the University of Vienna, this book examines all types of book decoration and illumination between late Antiquity and the Renaissance from the point of view of format and style. Pacht explains the basic vocabulary and concepts by which this art-form is to be understood, and offers insights into the philosophy, theology, technology and culture underlying its history. His subjects include pictorial decoration in the organic structure of the book; the initial; bible illustration; didactic miniatures; illustration of the apocalypse; illustration of the psalter; the conflict of surface and space. Now available in paperback.

Book Illumination in the Middle Ages: An Introduction (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History)

ALEXANDER, J.J.G.

This work is a illustrated catalogue to the major exhibition that marks the completion of the programme of works by which Westminster Abbey has been renewed inside and out over the last 35 years. The event forms a link in the chain of constant repair and beautifying which has continued since the building of the Confessor's Church over 900 years ago.

900 Years: The Restorations of Westminster Abbey

Cocke, Thomas

Buttress, Donald

Reference

A catalogue of more than 30 Romanesque manuscripts from the Cistercian monastery of Sticna in Slovenia. They represent a large and important collection from this part of Europe. Golob publishes the first comprehensive catalogue of them and much of the book is taken up with their analysis; twelfth century libraries, book production, scribes and art historical comparisons.

Twelfth-Century Cistercian Manuscripts: (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 17)

Golob, Nataa

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