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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"medieval art"”.
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Madness in Medieval Art and Romance
Many medieval chivalric romances contain an episode in which the hero goes insane, lives wild in the woods, gets better, and resumes his adventures. Most studies of such episodes have focused on ways that literature reflects medical and theological topics, but this study explores ways that literary …
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The Mouth of Hell in Medieval Art and Thought
… the Channel into Anglo-Saxon Britain, it used artistic symbols and representations which were already known to the populace outside of the monastery walls. This led to the establishment of the zoomorphic mouth of hell, in which the entrance to the underworld is pictured as a set of open jaws. …
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Santa Caterina at Galatina: Late Medieval Art in Salento at the frontier of the Latin and Orthodox Worlds
… between the Graeci and the Latini in late-medieval Salento is much more complex than often acknowledged. I place Santa Caterina in its context, exploring how the frescoes themselves are evidence for transculturation and how the experience of both communities must be re-centred in order to …
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The Nun's Tale from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves: A Medieval Novella
… of Cleves</em> (c. 1440), a lavishly illustrated medieval Dutch illuminated manuscript, served as the inspiration for this art historical novella. The plot revolves around the anonymous identity of an artist-nun and her patron, Catherine of Cleves, the Duchess of Guelders (1417-1476) who …
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Reading Romances: The Production and Reception of French Gothic Ivories in the Context of Late Medieval Literary Practices
… have carved on their external sides scenes from medieval imaginative literature (romances of Arthur etc.), and are one of the few media displaying such pictures to survive from the period. Thus they are crucial to an understanding of medieval secular art. Research on these ivories has focused on …
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Cathedral And Commune In Medieval Lucca: The Facade Of San Martino
… richly decorated façade of the cathedral of San Martino in Lucca is both a masterpiece of Tuscan medieval art and a witness to the political and social developments of its era. Created between the late twelfth and the mid-thirteenth century, its rise paralleled that of Lucca as an independent …
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The Middle English Physiologus: A Critical Translation and Commentary
… is an influential one, and informed medieval literature —not to mention medieval art and architecture—more than we know. The "Physiologus" was "an established source of Medieval sacred iconography and didactic poetry" and still continues to rank among the "books which have made a …
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En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
… manuscripts are invariably depicted as postpartum confinement scenes in a domestic interior. These images appear to show a `gendered space' in which women care for each other and men are marginalized. Neglected by medieval art historians, such pictures have been uncritically used by …
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Choir Screens and Digital Technologies: Reconstructing Church Interiors and Mendicant Altarpieces in Medieval Pisa
… the interior spaces of mendicant churches from medieval Pisa, particularly utilising digital technologies to study destroyed choir screens. Known as *tramezzo* screens, they played a fundamental role in the formation of sacred space, serving to articulate various liturgical areas whilst …
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The unpunctuated Chaucer : a guide to reading the Medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales.
The medieval manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are, in the modern sense, unpunctuated. That is, no commas, semicolons, question marks, or quotation marks existed in the fourteenth century. In spite of that fact, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century readers presumably had no problems reading …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… analyses the Oriental influences in Franciscan art from the thirteenth to the fourteenth centuries, arguing that what appears as an encounter with the East was, in fact, a complex process of self-definition within Western Christian culture. The research proceeds along a transregional trajectory …
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The early iconography of the 'Speculum Humanae Salvationis!' : the Italian connection in the fourteenth century.
… for an understanding of its importance in late medieval art than a recognition of its international character . It crosses geographical, political, economic and class boundaries . It appealed to a clerical and lay audience over two hundred years through a combination of traditional teaching, …
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William Morris and Medieval Material Culture
… Society began making an increasing variety of medieval texts accessible to Victorian readers, the "everyday life" of the past became an important subject of historiography. For many of William Morris's contemporaries, this project of social history and textual recovery provided welcome evidence …
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Localizing the Holy Land: The Visual Culture of Crusade in England, circa 1140-1307
… Because the most immediate zone for cultural and artistic exchange during the Crusades was the Holy Land, it has been the subject of immense amounts of historical and art historical scholarship examining issues of cultural and visual appropriation, assimilation and even resistance. However, the …
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The fresco cycle in the Lombard Church of Santa Maria di Castelseprio
… deserve a lot of attention in the study of early medieval art. The monument's date and origin are still debated, and many theories have been proposed, but the lack of documentary evidence has not allowed to determine any conclusive statement A mid-tenth century terminus ante quern has been …
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A Solemn Assembly.
<p>A group of oil paintings completed in partial requirement of my MFA degree is discussed. The paintings are on wood panels and are the result of a combination of old master techniques of under-painting and glazing and more contemporary approaches to the painting process. Each painting represents …
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Weltgericht und städtische Selbstdarstellung : das Wandgemälde am Triumphbogen des Ulmer Münsters
Gegenstand der Arbeit ist das Wandgemälde am Triumphbogen des Ulmer Münsters (1471). Auf der Grundlage einer breit angelegten ikonographischen Analyse und vor dem theoretischen Hintergrund der Weltgerichtsthematik sowie der Behandlung zeitgenössischer Umwälzungen ist der Gedanke leitend, dass das …
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Gender and dynastic sanctity in late fifteenth-century France: Le livre des faiz monseigneur Saint Loys (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2829)
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L'iconografia apocalittica nei Beatos IX-XIII secolo
… the one hand, the catalogue makes available a part dedicated to a codicological description. On the other hand, it provides a comprehensive iconographic analysis. The catalogue shows that in these codes are used recurring iconographic elements. Especially, the illuminations reproduce the real …
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Picture-books, Politics & Pedagogy: Illustrating Histories for a Young Reader, 1338-40 (British Library, Egerton MS 3028)
… to the years 1338-40 and its conclusion is partisan, celebrating Edward II and the Despensers and praying for Edward III’s victory. Egerton’s poems span 118 folios and are illustrated with 120 pen and wash miniatures. The use of the royal heraldry of England and France throughout encourages …
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