Medieval Art in America
Title | Medieval Art in America PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Bradford Smith |
Publisher | Palmer Museum of Art |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
This catalogue was published in 1996 to accompany an innovative exhibition, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, organized by the Frick Art Museum and the Palmer Museum of Art. With works of art borrowed from numerous prominent institutions--including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago--the exhibition focused not on the objects themselves but rather on the motivations and methods that led collectors to bring medieval art to America. The catalogue for the 1996 exhibition, now newly available to the public, enables readers to revisit the pioneering display of objects, ranging from ivory statues to stained glass. With an illustrated catalogue of the 75 objects in the show and essays on well-known collectors and collections of medieval art, this volume is an indispensable reference for the study of both American collecting and medieval art.
Early Medieval Art
Title | Early Medieval Art PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Nees |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780192842435 |
Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.
From Minor to Major
Title | From Minor to Major PDF eBook |
Author | Colum Hourihane |
Publisher | Index of Christian Art Department of Art and Archeology Princeton |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780983753711 |
This collection explores the way in which these minor arts have fought back to gain wider acceptance in our holistic approach to studying the arts of the Middle Ages. Written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, looks at minor media from a historiographical perspective and shows how they are gaining wider acceptance.
From Attila to Charlemagne
Title | From Attila to Charlemagne PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0870999680 |
This well-illustrated (mainly in bandw) volume was produced in conjunction with the opening of the newly refurbished galleries in the museum. The initial chapters discuss the history of collecting of early medieval objects, with two chapters on J.P. Morgan. The remaining scholarly studies discuss the small luxury and everyday metal objects that make up the exceptional collection at the Met; consideration of the archaeological context is prominent. Individual papers discuss jewelry from various locations, the Vermand treasure, the Domagnano treasure, the Vrap treasure, and an analysis of the Lindau book cover. The contributors are affiliated with academic and museum institutions in the US and Europe. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Medieval Art
Title | Medieval Art PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Byron Norris |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1588390837 |
This educational resource packet covers more than 1200 years of medieval art from western Europe and Byzantium, as represented by objects in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the contents of this resource are: an overview of medieval art and the period; a collection of aspects of medieval life, including knighthood, monasticism, pilgrimage, and pleasures and pastimes; information on materials and techniques medieval artists used; maps; a timeline; a bibliography; and a selection of useful resources, including a list of significant collections of medieval art in the U.S. and Canada and a guide to relevant Web sites. Tote box includes a binder book containing background information, lesson plans, timeline, glossary, bibliography, suggested additional resources, and 35 slides, as well as two posters and a 2 CD-ROMs.
Pen and Parchment
Title | Pen and Parchment PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Holcomb |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Drawing, Medieval |
ISBN | 1588393186 |
Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.
Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art
Title | Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Anderson |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2017-02-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300219164 |
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 traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to show how cosmological motifs informed relationships between individuals, especially the ruling elite, and communities, demonstrating how domestic and global politics informed the production and reception of these depictions. The first book to consider such imagery across the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of art history.