PICTORIAL NARRATIVE IN THE ROMANESQUE CLOISTER. CLOISTER IMAGERY AND RELIGIOUS LIFE IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN
Editorial: Peter Lang Publishing Autor: Pamela Anne Patton
ISBN: 0820472689
Publicación: New York. 2004.
Páginas: 284 Medidas: 23,5 x 15,5 cm.
Fotografías: Sí.
Idioma: Inglés
Índice: List of Illustrations · Acnowledgments · Introduction · Histoia fundamentum est: San Juan de la Peña · Faith and the Frontier: Santa María la Mayor de Tudela · Diffusion and Disintgration: Tarragona and the cloisters of Catalonia · The narrative cloister in Romanesque Spain · Appendices · Bibliography · Illustrations · Index
Resumen: Praised as paradisiacal or denounced as impious fantasy, the sculpture of Romanesque cloisters played a powerful role in medieval monastic life. This book demonstrates how sculpture in the cloister, the physical and spiritual heart of the religious foundation, could be shrewdly configured to articulate the most influential ideals and experiences of its individual community. Taking as its focus the visually rich, highly organized narrative programs of three twelfth-century Spanish cloisters, this book reveals the power of such imagery to reflect and reinforce the social and spiritual preoccupations of its age.

PVP: 83,85€

SACRED SHOCK. FRAMING VISUAL EXPERIENCE IN BYZANTIUM
Editorial: Pennsylvania State University Press Autor: Glenn Peers.
ISBN: 0271024704
Publicación: 2004.
Páginas: 208 Medidas: 24 x 18 cm.
Fotografías: Sí
Índice: List of Illustrations · Preface · Introduction: The Great Age of the Frame · I The Crucifixion Contained and Containing · II The Bloody Page in the Chludov Psalter · III Gregory of Nazianzus as Twelfth-Century Paradigm · IV Saint George and His Iconic Bodies · V Silver Cladding and the Assimilation of Bodies and Faces · Epilogue: The Body Framing · Abbreviations · Notes · Selected Bibliography.
Resumen: Art did not exist in Byzantium. As Glenn Peers explains in Sacred Shock, there were, instead, a variety of devotional objects—pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts—regarded as infused with divine presence and used in religious practices. What concerns Peers in this provocative book is the means by which the relationship between the divine and the human was made manifest through crafted, material objects.
According to Peers, the devotional objects of Byzantium should be understood as having a detail or place that plays a large part in “framing” their meaning for viewers. After an insightful discussion of pectoral crosses, Peers examines a series of case studies, which includes the depiction of the blood of Christ in the Chludov Psalter, a fourteenth-century icon of St. George, and the Mandylion, a famous relic thought to preserve the traces of Christ’s face.
Sacred Shock combines fine scholarship with close analysis of Byzantine devotional objects and discussion of issues of broad importance to the study of visual experience. It is significant as both an exploration of art historical methodology and a contribution to our understanding of the medieval world.

PVP: 48,50€

MEDIEVAL AND LATER TREASURES FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
Editorial: Univ of Washington Pr Autor: Paul Williamson
ISBN: 0 954901 44 4
Publicación: 2005.
Páginas: 68 Medidas: 30 x 24 cm.
Fotografías: Sí
Resumen: These works of museum quality, from an anonymous collection (one of the most important currently in private hands), were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2005. Many of the objects in the catalogue will be well known to those familiar with the specialist literature, though most will have been unware of their whereabouts, and this catalogue will be of use to all those interested in medieval works of art and the history of collecting.An introduction places the highlights of the collection in context. Paul Williamson is curator with responsibility for medieval sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and is well known for his authoritative contributions to the study of medieval sculpture.

PVP: 49,95€

ENGLISH MEDIEVAL ALABASTERS WITH A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
Editorial: The Boydell Press Autor: Francis Cheetham
ISBN: 1843830094
Publicación: 2005.
Páginas: 368 Medidas: 29 x 21 cm.
Fotografías: Sí
Índice: Foreword · Preface to the 2005 edition · Preface · English medieval alabasters · Alabaster: the material · Place of carving · Subject matter · Sources · Altarpieces · Devotional images · Contemporary commercial value · Dating · Export trade · Influence of the Alabaster Style · Reformation: the death of the industry · Appendix I: saints · Appendix II: life f the Virgin · Appendix III: Passion of Christ · Appendix IV: Paint Analysis · Appendix V: English alabaster altarpieces in Europe · Plates · Notes · Catalogue · supplementary bibliography (2005) Bibliography · Concordance · Museum Collections containing English medieval alabasters · Index · Acknowledgements · Corrigenda.
Resumen: English alabasters represent a unique contribution to medieval art. Less sophisticated, perhaps, than other contemporary forms of religious art, they were a neglected area of study until this volume was first published in 1984. Stories from the New Testament and "The Golden Legend" were the most favoured subjects, and the numerous examples that survive in churches and museums throughout Europe attest to their wide and enduring appeal. Francis Cheetham examines here all aspects of their production and demonstrates how the panels and altarpieces can aid our understanding of life and devotional practice in medieval times. At the heart of this fascinating study is a richly illustrated catalogue of the 260 examples in the collection of London's Victoria and Albert Museum: a collection "so comprehensive that it would be possible to write a survey of the subject almost without recourse to pieces elsewhere," as Sir Roy Strong notes in his Foreword. Their division into subject categories is an invaluable aid to identification and classification. The late Francis Cheetham was an acknowledged expert on medieval English alabasters, and this reissue of his classic work will be welcomed by historians, art historians, collectors and dealers alike, taking its place alongside his "Alabaster Images of Medieval England", which was published by the Boydell Press in 2003.


PVP: 179,95€

FIGURATIVE ART IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM AND THE RIDDLE OF BIHZÂD OF HERÂT (1465-1535)
Editorial: Flammarion Autor: Michael Barry
ISBN: 2080304216
Publicación: 2005.
Páginas: 408 Medidas: 24,5 x 32 cm.
Fotografías: Sí
Índice: Greek preludes · Arabic preludes · Persian preludes · Tajallî: the first vision of the Theophany or "Divine Manifestation" · Tajallî: the second vision of the Theophany or "Divine Manifestation" · Tajallî: the third vision of the Theophany or "Divine Manifestation" · Tajallî: the Ruling Prince and the Theophany or "Divine Manifestation" · Foreword: Eyes and ears to Bihzâd · "Persian Miniatures" and the Twentieth Century's Song of Glory · The formation of islamic figurative art: from the eighth to the fifteenth Centuries · Bihzâd as Guildmaster · Zulaykhâ's Castle · Alexander's Cave · Conclusion · A chronology of the Islamic Empire (622-1722 AD) · Maps of the Islamic East · Bibliography · Index · Acknowledgments and photographic credits.
Resumen: This groundbreaking work elucidates the symbolism and an entire allegorical system in Islamic painting of the Golden Age between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Michael Barry, a leading expert on art of the Middle East, focuses his study around the work of Bizhâd, the undisputed master of the Persian miniature and an almost mythical personality. Barry's study follows deliberately the tradition of studies by Erwin Panofsky or Emile Mâle on the symbolism of medieval Christian art.
It is of considerable importance for the history of Islamic iconography, the study of which lags a century behind that of Byzantine or the Western Middle Ages.
Over 300 gorgeous colour plates illustrate this oversize volume and are accompanied by text that attempts to decipher the allegorical code of 15th and 16th century "Persian miniatures," in part by examining extracts of medieval mystical Persian poetry.
Michael Barry, who was recently appointed Chairman of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, focuses on the work of late 15th-century-painter Bihzâd, and addresses the religious enigma posed by the existence of Islamic figurative art.

PVP: 93,50€