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A comprehensive survey of the surviving Italian frescoes from the end of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Mannerism. This book offers a descriptive and interpretive essay on all...

This book is an introduction to the topic of sculptural friezes ranging from England to Normandy, the Loire Valley and Northern Italy. Among the most important of all the surviving...

The book titled Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in Mediaeval Art: From Early by the author Adolf Katzenellenbogen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and...

The collection of Early Renaissance painting in the National Gallery in London is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. This book provides a survey of European...

The book titled Leonardo by the author Maria Costantino. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In "The Viewer as Poet", Norman Land provides a comprehensive survey of ekphrasis in literature and art criticism from antiquity through the Renaissance. Land demonstrates that Renaissance art criticism assimilated...

This wide-ranging book explores the architecture-principally ecclesiastical-of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. In 1204, control of the duchy of Normandy passed...

The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art....

A study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) who was well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered less important than Giotto and his followers....

This study examines the stained glass produced between 1250 and 1325 in western France during the late Capetian era. Illustrated with images never before published, including many from French churches...

New insights into the innovative multimedia work and early career of fourteenth-century Italian painter Simone Martini Painter to popes, princes, and scions of Renaissance dynasties, Simone Martini (ca. 1284-1344) transformed...

Much of the Gothic Revival's modern appeal derives from furnishings, liturgical metalwork and other arts and crafts, all of which are illustrated in this book.

In a new addition to the Pelican History of Art series, leading architectural historian Eric Fernie presents a fascinating survey of Romanesque architecture and the political systems that gave rise...

Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange...

The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts The illuminated manuscripts of the...

A fine collection of the greatest French tales about the legend of Arthur Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly...

A sweeping survey-the first of its kind-of the artistic, cultural, and technological achievements of the vast Seljuq empire Rising from humble origins as Turkic tribesman, the powerful and culturally prolific...

This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces-the vibrant,...

One of the most important art works produced in late fifteenth-century Spain is the group of twenty-six panels from the altarpiece of the cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo, Castile. The panels...

Some believe the Ambhan Empire is cursed. But Arwa doesn't simply believe it - she knows it's true. Widowed by the infamous, unnatural massacre at Darez Fort, Arwa was saved...

It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie...

Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...

Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...

Author: Bernard MeehanFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 248mm, 390g, 96 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of...

Author: Max SeidelFormat: Hardback, 5060g, 850 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2012Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, father and son, are the most important makers of Italian Gothic sculpture. Their pulpits (1260 ?1311)...