History of Art: Byzantine & Medieval Art c 500 CE to c 1400

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultu...

How and why does vernacular art become foreign? What does ‘Greek manner’ mean in regions far beyond the Mediterranean? What stories do images need?...

Despite China’s long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song pe...

This is the first study to bring together all twenty-nine extant copies of the medieval Commentary on the Apocalypse, which was originally written ...

The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval a...

The planning history of St. Peter's in Rome at the beginning of the 16th century has been an important topic of art historical research since the ...

From a modern perspective, the secular and religious spheres separated at the close of the late mediaeval period. This study is the first to make c...

Dieses Buch ist die erste monographische Studie zum Goldgrund in der italienischen Tafelmalerei. Anhand der Tafelbilder Fra Angelicos zeigt Saskia ...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its ...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in ant...

"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audie...

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the foc...

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language, which dominated Western art until ...

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small La...

This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represen...

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small La...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted “gateways” of churches in the no...

Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attent...

Tabbaa’s Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the of...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its ...

Zweibändiges Werk Ohne Ornament, so schreibt Leon Battista Alberti in seinem für die Architekturtheorie der Neuzeit grundlegenden Traktat über die ...

The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persi...

The mosaics in the Rotunda in Thessaloniki are the most significant decorations that remain from the early Byzantine period. Th is richly illustrat...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the...

The Secret Middle Ages is a controversial and completely fresh view of the medieval world through its rare and amazing artefacts. Using the wealth ...