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Title A companion to medieval art : Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe / edited by Conrad Rudolph
Published Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 676 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Blackwell companions to art history ; 2
Blackwell companions to art history ; 2.
Contents Introduction : A sense of loss : an overview of the historiography of Romanesque and Gothic art / Conrad Rudolph -- Vision / Cynthia Hahn -- Reception of images by medieval viewers / Madeline Harrison Caviness -- Narrative / Suzanne Lewis -- Formalism / Linda Seidel -- Gender and medieval art / Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz -- Gregory the Great and image theory in Northern Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Herbert L. Kessler -- Art and exegesis / Christopher G. Hughes -- Whodunnit? : patronage, the canon, and the problematics of agency in Romanesque and Gothic art / Jill Caskey -- Collecting (and display) / Pierre Alain Mariaux -- The concept of spolia / Dale Kinney -- The monstrous / Thomas E.A. Dale -- Making sense of marginalized images in manuscripts and religious architecture / Laura Kendrick -- Romanesque architecture / Eric Fernie -- Romanesque sculpture in Northern Europe / Colum Hourihane -- Modern origins of Romanesque sculpture / Robert A. Maxwell -- The historiography of Romanesque manuscript illumination / Adam S. Cohen -- The study of Gothic architecture / Stephen Murray -- Gothic sculpture from 1150 to 1250 / Martin Büchsel -- Gothic manuscript illustration : the case of France / Anne D. Hedeman -- Glazing medieval buildings / Elizabeth Carson Pastan -- Toward a historiography of the sumptuous arts / Brigitte Buettner -- East meets West : the art and architecture of the crusader states / Jaroslav Folda -- Gothic in the East : Western architecture in Byzantine lands / Tassos C. Papacostas -- Architectural layout : design, structure, and construction in Northern Europe / Marie-Thérèse Zenner -- Sculptural programs / Bruno Boerner -- Cistercian architecture / Peter Fergusson -- Art and pilgrimage : mapping the way / Paula Gerson -- "The scattered limbs of the giant" : recollecting medieval architectural revivals / Tina Waldeier Bizzarro -- The modern medieval museum / Michelle P. Brown
Summary Brings together scholarship devoted to medieval architecture, illumination sculpture, and the Romanesque and Gothic periods in Northern Europe. Comprising 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays, this volume covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Content as of: Mar. 14, 2008; title from title screen
SUBJECT Art 2008 gnd
Europa gnd
Subject Art, Medieval -- Europe, Northern
ART -- History -- Medieval.
Art, Medieval
Art medieval -- Europe septentrionale.
Northern Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Rudolph, Conrad, 1951-
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
LC no. 2005033250
ISBN 9781405102865
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OTHER TI Blackwell reference online. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016152995