The palaces of Venice have long excited the wonder of visitors. Ornate and grand, the buildings seem to float on the water of the city's canals like the sea castles in a mariner's dream. But Juergen Schulz demonstrates that the origins of these residences lay on terra firma, in a widely disseminated building type that, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, was adapted to the special circumstances of an Adriatic lagoon and the needs of the merchants turning this environment into a center o...
In the 1470s, one of the most innovative artists working in Bruges illuminated a Book of Hours for Jean Carpentin, lord of Gravile and prominent citizen of Normandy. Known as the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book after one of his other masterpieces, this artist and members of his workshop enriched the pages of Carpentin’s manuscript with miniatures, historiated initials and boldly colored borders in which human figures, monsters and monkeys are framed by twisting branches of acanthus.
A collection of twenty-two commissioned papers discuss the construction, architecture and building plan of 13th-century castles in Europe. An initial four essays discuss the historical context of castle-building beginning in the post-Roman years. These are followed by a series of case studies, mostly from Germany, including castles in Nuernberg, Pappenheim, Vienenburg, Muenzenburg and Oppenheim. Contributors also discuss 13th-century castles in Sweden, France and Lichtenstein and the influence o...
Nur wenige Erfindungen der Menschheitsgeschichte sind in solchem Masse vergessen worden wie wasserbetriebene Musik- und Klangautomaten. Aus dem antiken Instrument der Wasserorgel entwickelten sich in der Neuzeit diverse Formen hydraulischer Automaten, die voellig eigenstandig Naturgerausche und Tierstimmen imitieren konnten oder gar komplexe Musikstucke zum Erklingen brachten. Das vorliegende Buch beleuchtet erstmals systematisch das Phanomen wasserbetriebener Klangerzeugung von der Antike bis z...
The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey
by Warwick Rodwell and David S. Neal
Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy. They comprise: the ‘Great Pavement’ in the sanctuary; the pavement around the shrine of Edward the Confessor; the saint’s tomb and shrine; Henry III’s tomb; the tomb of a royal child, and some other pieces. Surprisingly, the mosaics have never before received detailed recording and analysis, either individually or as an assemblage. This two-volume publication presents a holistic study of this outstanding gr...
Image, Text and Script (Transformation of the Roman World, #7)
One of the least known yet most important buildings in Salisbury is the former Bishops' Palace. First built when the city was established in the 1220s, it was home to successive bishops for over 700 years until becoming the Cathedral School in 1946. This book traces the evolution of the palace, chronicles the most important bishops who lived there and sets the story within the relevant contexts of English history. It also describes the other (numerous) palaces of the bishops of Salisbury and cat...
Die Inschriften Der Stadt Greifswald
by Jurgen Herold and Christine Magin
Westeuropaische Buchmalerei (Big Sirrocco)
by Anrdei Sterligov and Tamara Voronova
Kolner Bortenweberei Im Mittelalter (Corpus Kolner Borten, #1)
by Marita Bombek and Gudrun Stracke-Sporbeck
Art Books (Mega Square)
Les Modeles Dans l'Art Du Moyen Age (Xiie-Xve Siecles) / Models in the Art of the Middle Ages (12th-15th Centuries)
Scriptor Und Scriptorium (Lebensbilder Des Mittelalters)
by Ralf M W Stammberger
Ludgerhall Castle, Wiltshire
Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela (The pilgrim's guide to Santiago de Compostela)
by Anne Shaver-Crandell, etc., and Paula Gerson
Nach Dem Bild Des Kaisers (Studien Zur Kunst, #15)
by Caroline Horch