Boston.: The Page Company, 1914.- 378 p. A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance. By Julia de Wolf Addison - Author of " The Art of the Pitti Palase ", " The Art of the National Gallery ", etc.
Paris: Imprimerie Berthaud Freres, 1927. — 96 p. Villard de Honnecourt, né autour de l'an 1200, est originaire du village de Honnecourt-sur-Escaut, situé près de Cambrai. Comme les compagnons de son temps, il fait son apprentissage en allant de ville en ville et de chantier en chantier. Il deviendra plus tard magister latomus, c'est-à-dire maître d'œuvre, profession qui englobe...
Boydell Press, 2013. — 202 p. Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common in medieval art and architecture, from the grotesques in the borders of illuminated manuscripts to the symbol of the "green man", widespread in churches and cathedrals. These mysterious depictions are frequently interpreted as embodying or mitigating the fears symptomatic of a "dark age"....
Yale University Press, 2017. — 216 p. In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states - the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 224 p. Ekphrasis, a genre of poetry describing a work of art, has traditionally existed on the ideological battleground between the verbal and visual arts. Medieval ekphrases, however, reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and show how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. Claire Barbetti explores the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. — 214 p. The Cloisters is the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, richly illustrated with more than 175 color pictures, offers a broad introduction to the remarkable history of The Cloisters as well as a lively and informative discussion of the treasures...
Praeger, 2009. — 347 p. — (Praeger Series on the Middle Ages). Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the work done by artists in western Europe during the Middle Ages. Art historian Janetta Rebold Benton uses examples such as the Book of KellS /i>, Bury Saint Edmunds CrosS /i>, and the Bayeux Tapestry, and the...
Da Capo Press, 1975. — 308 p. Two Twelfth-Century Paintings from Constantinople A Newly Discovered Cimabue Nativity and Adoration of the School of Pietro Cavallini in the Collection of Mr. John G.Johnson An Antiphonary with Miniatures by Lippo Vanni Early Paintings by AlegrettoNuzi A Panel by Roberto Oderisi Notes on Tuscan Painters of the Trecento in the Staedel Museum at...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 726 p. Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the...
Brepols, 2009. — 442 p. Technical Aspects of the Misericord Misericords as an Interpretative Tool in the Study of Choir Stalls Misericords and the World of Bruegel Tutivillus Where the Abbot Carries Dice: Gaming-Board Misericords in Context Flying Low Down Under: Representations of Winged Mammals Fowl, and Birds on English Misericords The Mermaid in the Church Romance among the...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. — 390 p. Prague, the Gothic jewel of the kingdom of Bohemia and capital of the modern Czech Republic, has been lauded by poets as "the dream of delirious architects" whose "magic needs no wand." Today, after decades of political isolation, the city again draws throngs of tourists eager to see its imposing castle, its soaring cathedral...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995 Gallo-Roman and Provincial Roman Art, Third to Fifth Century Tribal Movements, First Half of Fifth to Early Sixth Century Continental Migration Art, Sixth and Seventh Centuries Great Britain, First to Tenth Century Scandinavia, Sixth to Eleventh Century Carolingian Art, Late Seventh to Early Ninth Century
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000. — 429 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-968-0. The arts of the Early Medieval period form a major, yet little-known, part of the material from the Middle Ages in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent research on this fascinating period from approximately A.D. 400 to 800 reveals a more comprehensive picture of what has been traditionally referred to...
Reaktion Books, London, 2014. — 302 p. Lead White: Strange Matter The Metz Pontifical: Official Matter The Macclesfield Psalter: Personal Matter The Wilton Diptych: Heaven and Earth The Westminster Retable: Heaven on Earth, Part I The Thornham Parva Retable: Heaven on Earth, Part II Epilogue
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. — 689 p. History of the Collection The Fabric, Weaving Procedure, and Yarns How Tapestries Were Used in the Middle Ages The Character of Medieval Tapestry Design Stylistic Development of Tapestry Design in France and the Southern Netherlands, 1375 - 1525 History of Tapestry Weaving in Europe during the Late Middle Ages
London: Longmans and Co., 1909. — 194 p., with 125 Pl. With examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum. The present catalogue deals with the carved ivories of post-classical, mediaeval, and more modern times contained in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. The...
Lille: L. Quarre, Libraire - editeur. 1886. - 742 p. Apres avoir recueilli et fait imprimer un nombre considerable de documents inedits sur l histoire de l art dans la Flandre, l Artois et le Hainaut avant le XV siecle , nous aurions regarde notre oeuvre comme incomplete, si nous n avions pas trace en meme temps le tableau d ensemble des origines et des commensements de l Ecole...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1970. — 265 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-002-0 The Metropolitan Museum's Centennial exhibition The Year 1200 consists of masterpieces of Western European art created between 1180 and 1220. It is an attempt to bring into focus the stylistic trends that stretched from the twelfth century into the beginnings of High Gothic, which culminated in the court...
NY., 1971. From the outset, the collecting of illuminated manuscripts at The Cloisters was considered a delicate procedure, to be followed with prudence. It was felt by those involved in acquisitions that the bulk of material there should be architectural elements, sculpture, and decorative arts — objects enhancing the environmental quality of the institution — and that...
Thomson Gale, 2005. - 525 p. Although the traditional term Middle Ages suggests that the years between the final fall of the Roman Empire in the sixth century and the full flowering of the Renaissance (literally rebirth of Roman and later Greek culture) in the fifteenth century was merely an interval between two great periods of civilization, the history of the arts and...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. — 221 p. Pietà — "pity" in Italian from the Latin word for "piety"—has come to signify images of the Virgin Mary grieving over the dead body of Christ, an image that was accorded an exalted place in the piety of the Late Gothic period. During that troubled time, the Pietà was, as the author tells us, "like a talisman in a storm," a...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1986. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-408-5 Suger, abbot of the French abbey of Saint-Denis, lived from 1081 to 1151. This book of essays about his life and achievements grew out of a symposium sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art and by Columbia University. The symposium was held in 1981 simultaneously at The Cloisters and...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. — 361 p. Illuminated Manuscripts Paintings and Drawings Sculpture Ivories Metalwork Goldsmiths' Work Enamels Stained Glass Embroideries and Tapestries Various Media
Clivland: Clivland Museum, 1963. — P.158-216. A missal for a king: a first exhibition. An introduction to the Gotha Missal and a catalogue to the exhibition Gothic Art 1360-1440 held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, August 8 through September 15, 1963.
Wellcome Collection, 2018. — 352 p. Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more contested than the body in the medieval world. In Medieval Bodies , art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. — 256 p. The Romanesque and Gothic art that was assembled by Raymond Pitcairn in the early part of this century represents the world's finest and most extensive collection of medieval sculpture and stained glass still in private hands. Raymond Pitcairn's activities as a collector began with an architectural commission — the creation of...
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004. — 184 p. — ISBN10: 089236758X / ISBN13: 978-0892367580. Students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance easily fall under the spell of its achievements: its self-confident humanism, its groundbreaking scientific innovations, its ravishing artistic production. Yet many of the developments in Italian ceramics and glass were made possible by Italy's...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1975. — 609 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-092-6 The Centennial celebration of The Metropolitan Museum of Art demonstrated the Museum's extraordinary capacity to present exhibitions that are both scholarly and popular. The Year 1200 exhibition most clearly expresses this ability. This was a distinguished exhibition, drawn from the treasures of museums...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-001-2. Thanks to the perseverance and unparalleled expertise of Dr. Florens Deuchler, Dr. Konrad Hoffmann, and their staff, The Year 1200 is one of the most important exhibitions ever to be assembled in the Western Hemisphere. Each of its more than three hundred objects has been chosen from hundreds to explain...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. — 204 p. What is distinctive about medieval drawings? How do they differ from Renaissance drawings, which have shaped our definition and perception of the form? Why were drawings so often chosen to illustrate manuscripts and how did they evolve throughout the period? Who were the artists responsible for them? These and other questions...
Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2013. — 388 p. One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) is the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its magisterial patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private...
Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2013. — 388 p. One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) is the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its magisterial patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private...
Thomas Kren, Mark Evans, Janet Backhouse, and Nancy Turner. Edited by Thomas Kren with Mark Evans. Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. — 112 p. — ISBN: 978-0-89236-829-7. Jean Bourdichon was the court painter to four successive French kings including Louis XII and his predecessor, Charles VIII. Bourdichon painted the Hours of Louis XII for the king of France around the...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 196 p. The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of medieval artworks, was the subject of an international conference at the British Museum in July 2008. This volume publishes 19 of 26 papers delivered at that conference. The physical nature of the tapestry is examined, including an outline of the artefact's current display and the latest...
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2006. — 240 p. Faces in medieval sculpture are explorations of human identity, marked not only by evolving nuances of style but also by ongoing drama of European history. The eighty-one sculpted heads featured in this beautifully illustrated volume provide a sweeping view of the Middle Ages, from the waning days of the Roman Empire to the...
Westview Press, 1972. — 448 p. Emile Males book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography used in the cathedrals of France. Fully illustrated with...
New York: George Braziller, 1977. This book presents a colection of colour plates from famous illuminated manuscripts that emerged from mo nasteries and island workshops during the 7th and 8th centur ies A.D., including the Book of Kells, the Lindisfarne Gospe ls, and the Book of Durrow.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. — 193 p. goals and design of this resource map overview of medieval art and its time The Old World of Rome Changes (ca. 300–ca. 800) Borderland Cultures Carolingian Art and Its Time (ca. 800–ca. 900) Ottonian Art and Its Time (ca. 900–ca. 1000) Byzantium and Its Art (843–1453) Romanesque Art and Its Time (ca. 1000–ca. 1150) Early...
Harvard University Press, 1966. - 632 p. The polarization of European fifteenth-century painting in Italy and the Lowlands French and Franco-Flemish book illumination in the fourteenth century The early fifteenth and the "international style" ; Sculpture and panel painting about 1400 The problem of Burgundy The regional schools of the Netherlands and their importance for the...
New York: Meridian Books, 1957. — 180 p. — (Meridian). Language: English. This book is a sublime example of scholarship in its highest form. That being said it is not a book for the casual reader. Panofsky does not insult your intelligence but expects you to think. This book would be an excellent addition, indeed an mandatory one, for any library of history. I would also...
Toledo: Museum of Art, 2002. — 64 p. — ISBN: 0-935172-19-X. The Cloister Gallery, designed in the 1920s, enchants visitors to the Toledo Museum of Art. For many, its spatial effects, subtle lighting, and precious works of art evoke the spirit of the Middle Ages. Central to the gallery's aura of serene spirituality are the architectural elements drawn from the medieval world....
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. — 87 p. The Cuxa Cloister The Saint-Guilhem Cloister The Bonnefont Cloister The Trie Cloister The Chapter House from Pontaut The Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean The Doorway from Reugny The Ciborium from Santo Stefano Elements from the Choir of the Church of Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon The Apse from San Martin de Fuentiduena The...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. - 704 p. A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and...
2nd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 1020 p. A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume...
N.Y.: 2003. — 285 p. [English and French medieval stained glass windows in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art]. This comprehensive two-volume catalogue covers the outstanding collection of English and French medieval stained glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written by curator Jane Hayward, the catalogue is posthumously published as Part I in...
Routledge Group, 2007. — 290 p. — (Routledge Companions). In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age. The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on: -the history of Gothic -Gothic...
Westview Press, 1972. — 432 p. This is an English-language study on the architecture and art of medieval France of the Romanesque and Gothic periods, approximately 1000 -1500. In addition to essays on individual monuments there are general discussions of given periods and specific problems such as: why did Gothic come into being? Whitney Stoddard explores the interrelationship...
2nd Edition — Westview Press, 2004. — 432 p. This beautifully produced survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture introduces the reader to a vast period of history ranging from ancient Rome to the age of exploration. The monumental arts and the diverse minor arts of the Middle Ages are presented here within the social, religious, and political frameworks of...
2nd Edition — Westview Press, 2004. — 432 p. This beautifully produced survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture introduces the reader to a vast period of history ranging from ancient Rome to the age of exploration. The monumental arts and the diverse minor arts of the Middle Ages are presented here within the social, religious, and political frameworks of...
KÖNEMANN, 1997. — 484 p. — ISBN: 3-89508-447-6 Romanesque Building Styles Romanesque architecture in Germany Romanesque archiitecture in Italy The monastery as Heavenly Jerusalem Romanesque architecture in France Romanesque architecture in Spain and Portugal Romanesque architecture in Great Britain The Romanesque period in Scandinavia The Romanesque period in Central Europe...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. - 294 p. The years 1978 and 1979 were auspicious ones for The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Philippe de Montebello became its Director and William D. Wixom its Chairman of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. By then, the Museum's two collections of medieval art jointly encompassed outstanding examples of metalwork,...
New York: G.E. Stechert & Company, 1920. — 138 p. Formprobleme der Gotik (Form in the Gothic), 1911, contrasted and celebrated the "gothic impulse" to create stylized art, opposing it to a Mediterranean infatuation with verisimilitude. The book again met acclaim and Worringer's reputation was secure.
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