A Wider Trecento
Studies in 13th- and 14th-Century European Art Presented to Julian Gardner
Biographical note
Louise Bourdua, PhD (1992), is Reader in History of Art at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on mendicant art and patronage including The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy (Cambridge, 2004), and 14th-century Padua.
Robert Gibbs, BA (1968), FSA, is Professor of Pre-humanist Art History at Glasgow University. He has published on legal illumination, Tomaso da Modena, Lippo di Dalmasio and many aspects of 13th- and 14th-century Bolognese art.
Robert Gibbs, BA (1968), FSA, is Professor of Pre-humanist Art History at Glasgow University. He has published on legal illumination, Tomaso da Modena, Lippo di Dalmasio and many aspects of 13th- and 14th-century Bolognese art.
Readership
Students and scholars interested in medieval and particularly Italian history and art history, especially those concerned with the interaction between the South and North of Europe.
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In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues that late medieval artists, writers, and patrons creatively adapted conventional death iconography in ways that ultimately affirm theiir artistic, social and political identities.
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During the Middle Ages, the head of St John the Baptist was widely venerated. The present study offers the unique key to the Johannesschüssel as artifact, phenomenon, phantasm and medium.
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The twenty-four studies in this volume propose a new approach to framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women, moving beyond today’s standard division of artist from patron.
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Jerusalem, in her central role for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, became the setting for – or even the protagonist of – oral, written and pictorial narratives. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to entanglements between the city, as a continuously redefined space, and its narratives.
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The papers in this volume question how perceptions of space influenced understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health in the classical and medieval periods.
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The diffusion of personal signs of identity during the twelfth century introduced individuals to mediated forms of communication. The book analyses the conditions for and the implications of their partnering with material signs and images in expressing self and accountability.
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Drawing on a range of philosophical and theological writings produced in eleventh-century Byzantium, this book offers a reading of the icon and Byzantine aesthetics that not only expands our understanding of these topics but challenges our assumptions about the work of art itself.
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This volume's essays together provide a rich investigation of the idea of sanctity and its many medieval manifestations across time (fifth through fifteenth centuries) and in different geographical locations (England, Scotland, France, Italy, the Low Countries) from multiple disciplinary ...
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