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

It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has remained an important cultural symbol of f...

Vasari famously wrote that Giotto recovered the true method of painting, which had been lost for many years before him, and indeed, he is traditi...

New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late me...

Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages. The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and...

Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images. ...

Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history. Material culture pl...

This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects...

This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects...

An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English art Images and imagery played a ...

This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to...

It is common to think of Jesus of Nazareth''s main physical characteristics as including long, wavy, blondish hair and a short beard. Yet the Holy ...

Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture represents the first art historical consideration of the patronage of the Ottonian Emperors Otto III (983-100...