The Age of Opus Anglicanum - 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 Age of Opus Anglicanum write by Michael A. Michael. This book was released on 2016. The Age of Opus Anglicanum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The papers gathered in this publicatioin are the fruits of a Symposium day held at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 15th February 2013"--Page 7.
English Medieval Embroidery
English Medieval Embroidery - 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 English Medieval Embroidery write by Clare Browne. This book was released on 2021-08-10. English Medieval Embroidery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 1200-1530) In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles were indispensable symbols of wealth and power. Owing to their quality, complexity and magnificence, English embroideries enjoyed international demand and can be traced in Continental sources as opus anglicanum (English work). Essays by leading experts explore the embroideries' artistic and social context, while catalogue entries examine individual masterpieces. Medieval embroiderers lived in a tightly knit community in London, and many were women who can be identified by name. Comparisons between their work and contemporary painting challenge modern assumptions about the hierarchy of artistic media. Contributors consider an outstanding range of examples, highlighting their craftsmanship and exploring the world in which they were created.
Book Illumination in the Middle Ages
Book Illumination in the Middle Ages - 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 Book Illumination in the Middle Ages write by Otto Pächt. This book was released on 1994. Book Illumination in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Roman Book
The Roman Book - 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 Roman Book write by Rex Winsbury. This book was released on 2009-03-26. The Roman Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What was a Roman book? How did it differ from modern books? How were Roman books composed, published and distributed during the high period of Roman literature that encompassed, among others, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Martial, Pliny and Tacitus? What was the ‘scribal art’ of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? The publishing of Roman books has often been misrepresented by false analogies with contemporary publishing. This wide-ranging study re-examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw material and the aesthetic criteria of the Roman book, and shows how slavery was the ‘enabling infrastructure’ of literature. Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society where the spoken still ranked above the written, helping to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous and how the Roman book could be both an elite cultural icon and a contributor to Rome’s popular culture through the mass medium of the theatre.
Guide to English Embroidery
Guide to English Embroidery - 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 Guide to English Embroidery write by Patricia Wardle. This book was released on 1970. Guide to English Embroidery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
