Cosmatesque Ornament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmatesque Ornament write by Paloma Pajares-Ayuela. This book was released on 2001. Cosmatesque Ornament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A richly illustrated study of architectural ornament in the late Middle Ages.
The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey
The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey write by Warwick Rodwell. This book was released on 2019-11-30. The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy. They comprise: the ‘Great Pavement’ in the sanctuary; the pavement around the shrine of Edward the Confessor; the saint’s tomb and shrine; Henry III’s tomb; the tomb of a royal child, and some other pieces. Surprisingly, the mosaics have never before received detailed recording and analysis, either individually or as an assemblage. The proposed publication, in two volumes, will present a holistic study of this outstanding group of monuments in their historical architectural and archaeological context. The shrine of St Edward is a remarkable survival, having been dismantled at the Dissolution and re-erected (incorrectly) in 1557 under Queen Mary. Large areas of missing mosaic were replaced with plaster on to which mosaic designs were carefully painted. This 16th-century fictive mosaic is unique in Britain. Conservation of the sanctuary pavement was accompanied by full archaeological recording with every piece of mosaic decoration drawn and colored by David Neal, phase plans have been prepared, and stone-by-stone examination undertaken, petrologically identifying and recording the locations of all the materials present. It has revealed that both the pavements and tombs include a range of exotic stone types. The Cosmati study has shed fresh light on every aspect of the unique series of monuments in Westminster Abbey; this work will fill a major lacuna in our knowledge of 13th-century English art of the first rank, and will command international interest.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library of Congress Subject Headings write by Library of Congress. This book was released on 2009. Library of Congress Subject Headings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library of Congress Subject Headings write by . This book was released on 2009. Library of Congress Subject Headings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Anachronic Renaissance
Anachronic Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anachronic Renaissance write by Alexander Nagel. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Anachronic Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance, examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance images and artifacts. In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and artists—a landscape obscured by art history's disciplinary compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals discussed were shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to be Early Christian antiquities, the acheiropoieton (or “image made without hands”), the activities of spoliation and citation, differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. Although a work of art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an origin outside of time, in divinity. This book is not the story about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the infrastructure of many possible stories.
