Katalog Der Handschriften Der Universitatsbibliothek Innsbruck
by Walter Neuhauser
Dynamic Splendor introduces a cycle of sixth-century mosaics little known to scholars, though they are comparable in quality and interest to famed mosaics in Italy and elsewhere. Ann Terry and Henry Maguire provide the first comprehensive account of the history and meaning of the mosaics along with the first high-quality photographic documentation of the ensemble. It has only recently been possible to study the mosaics at Porec closely, due to favorable conditions in Croatian Istria, where the...
In the Lands of the Enchanted Moorish Maiden (Islamic Art in the Mediterranean)
by Claudio Torres, Santiago Macias, and Susana Gomez
The Interior of the Medieval Village Church
by J. E. A. Kroesen and Regnerus Steensma
The thousands of medieval village churches that lie scattered across Europe provide us with unique insights into society and religion during the Middle Ages. Although many original furnishings fell victim to iconoclasm, war, neglect or refurbishment, some church interiors have remained surprisingly intact. Since 1998, Justin Kroesen and Regnerus Steensma traced, visited, photographed and recorded descriptions of hundreds of village churches throughout Western Europe. In this book the reader is i...
Saptamaatorkaa Worship and Sculptures (Perspectives in Indian Art & Archaeology, #3)
by Shivaji Pannikar
For many, perhaps most, the title Early Celtic Art summons up images of Early Christian stone crosses in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, or Cornwall; of Glendalough, lona or Tintagel; of the Ardagh Chalice or the Monymusk Reliquary; of the great illuminated gospels of Durrow or Lindisfame. But as Stuart Piggott notes, the consummate works of art produced under the aegis of the early churches in Britain or Ireland, in regions Celtic by tradition or language, have an ancestry behind them only partly Cel...
Work of Angels
Functions and Decorations (Cappellae Apostolicae Sixtinaeque Collectanea, ACTA, Monumen, #9)
