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

This book distils a lifetimes study of Viking art. Written by a leading authority, it introduces all the intricate and beautiful art styles of the ...

The intricacies of the medieval calendar are examined in this sumptuously illustrated volume, featuring many of the finest examples from The Morgan...

Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian. Baptism marked the entrance of the faithful into the right relatio...

This volume comprises published papers from the Ninth International Insular Art Conference held in Durham in 2022. It brings together the latest sc...

This volume comprises published papers from the Ninth International Insular Art Conference held in Durham in 2022. It brings together the latest sc...

In 1966 Mark Gambier-Parry bequeathed to the Courtauld the art collection formed by his grandfather Thomas Gambier Parry (who died in 1888). Since ...

In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church w...

For generations maps of the pilgrimage roads and of the reconquista have bedevilled the study of Spanish art and architecture. They have also infil...

This study deals with the iconographic theme of imperial Byzantine heavenly coronation, or André Grabars couronnement symbolique, with particular a...

Isabelle Dolezalek is the recipient of the 2018 ICMA Annual Book Prize. Roger IIs famous mantle and other royal garments from twelfth- and thirteen...

This monograph provides the first substantial analysis of the visual arts commissioned by Scots in France prior to Mary Queen of Scots. It examines...

Der Garten des Fürsten Orsini hat alles: Abenteuer, Geheimnisse, Monster, Fabelwesen, wunderschöne Göttinnen, halb oder ganz nackt, an zauberhaften...

The reception of Boccaccios works began early on, throughout Europe. This is reflected impressively in the splendidly illuminated manuscripts of Fi...

Up to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the si...

For the first time, this important volume features nearly all of the ancient glass objects in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Ethan McGrath's setting of this well-known fourteenth-century macaronic text is expressive and rich, both h...

Secrecy has played a role throughout human history and continues to capture the popular imagination. Some of the most seductive aspects of the Byza...

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christi...

Close technical examinations of the techniques and materials of Edward Steichen, Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski, Jasper Johns, and others are accompani...

Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, reminders,...

Carved and decorated stone-work is a rare survival from the period before the Norman Conquest. In Nottinghamshire it survives as large crosses and ...

How do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so doing is that this is a period whose visual prod...

A New York Times best art book of 2022New insights into the innovative multimedia work and early career of fourteenth-century Italian painter Simon...

An introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 12001530) In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles...

A vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day   The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life...

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and archi...

In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings, princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and influence produced i...

The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume. The enduring appeal an...

This illuminating exhibition catalogue interrogates the entanglement of the Islamic world with European visual culture during the medieval period a...

This fascinating and richly illustrated book accompanies The Medieval Body, the third in a series of vanguard exhibitions that places medieval mast...

This fascinating book tells the story of the building of William M. Voelkles collection of fakes and forgeries of manuscript illumination. With tho...

How does materiality affect artistic processes of object creation and reception? This volume examining carved boxes from the High and Late medieval...

A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through t...