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Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Byzantine Palaestina (Paperback, Unabridged edition): Asaf Friedman Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Byzantine Palaestina (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
Asaf Friedman
R2,515 Discovery Miles 25 150 Out of stock

The Byzantine era was a time of the formation of the Abrahamic religions and a battleground for people's hearts and minds. This book shows that, during the time of the Byzantine Empire, the synagogues in Palaestina developed a visual language adhering to traditional literary sources. Until now, scholars believed that Judaism was oblivious to all art forms, regarding them as mere "decoration." This book shows that, contrary to those beliefs, Jewish art was, in fact, flourishing in this period. The visual language that emerged is a trope that utilizes literal and figurative readings to arrive at an inquisitive mixture-a probing language that facilitates learning. It is a visual language of "becoming," of inward introspection and outward scrutiny. This new analysis goes beyond the limits of compositional rules, and requires an analytical, as well as emotive, thought process, to form a cultural interpretation that reveals the hidden language. This means that some parts of Judaism and some parts of Christianity were in agreement despite the commandment of "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image," and operated under the assumption that paintings were not necessarily the creation of idols. Thus, we see that the modern movements of art and architecture were not the first to deal with images through themes such as abstraction and denotation. The language developed during the Byzantine period could rival the best of such visual languages.

Mixed Metaphors - The Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, Unabridged edition): Sophie Oosterwijk,... Mixed Metaphors - The Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Sophie Oosterwijk, Stefanie Knoell
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Out of stock

This groundbreaking collection of essays by a host of international authorities addresses the many aspects of the Danse Macabre, a subject that has been too often overlooked in Anglo-American scholarship. The Danse was once a major motif that occurred in many different media and spread across Europe in the course of the fifteenth century, from France to England, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Spain, Italy and Istria. Yet the Danse is hard to define because it mixes metaphors, such as dance, dialogue and violence. The Danse Macabre aimed to confront viewers and readers with the prospect of their own demise by showing how Death summons each and every one of us-whether high or low, young or old, rich or poor. It functioned both as a text and as a visual theme, and often in combination, while also lending itself well to performance. Now best known through the satirical woodcuts of Hans Holbein the Younger, the motif was one of several 'macabre' themes that developed alongside the moralising tale of the Three Living and the Three Dead and the stark depiction of the cadaver on tomb monuments. The Danse Macabre was influenced by earlier themes, but thanks to its versatility its own impact went much further. As this corpus of innovative research will show, the Danse inspired sculptors, portrait artists, authors and dramatists such as Shakespeare far more than has been recognised until now. From the mural in 1420s Paris and John Lydgate's poem to the subsequent dissemination in print, Mixed Metaphors will reveal the lasting influence of the Danse on European culture from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Mosaiken in Italien 300-1300 (German, Hardcover): Joachim Poeschke Mosaiken in Italien 300-1300 (German, Hardcover)
Joachim Poeschke
R4,002 R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Save R2,491 (62%) Out of stock

The early Christian and medieval mosaics in Italy are among the most artistic creations of their time. Richly endowed with magnificent color plates, this opulent volume draws on 19 outstanding mosaic decorations to present a comprehensive panorama of this spectacular form of art. Early Christian apse mosaics and mosaic cycles provided for monumental beginnings to Christian pictorial art. Although supplemented by new images since the 12th Century, the early Christian themes were held in high regard up through the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages, the mosaic's stylistic devices already showed a transcendental-Christian compliant world view. The author's knowledge becomes apparent in his descriptions of the development of mosaic art in Italy, whose centers during the early years were found in Rome and Ravenna. Since the 6th century, the presentations see an increasingly byzantine influence. After a prolonged interruption there came a brief revival in Rome around the year 800, but mosaic art only reached full fruition during the 12th and 13th centuries when, in addition to Rome, mosaic cycles became evident in Venice, Sicily, and Florence. These drew heavily from byzantine inspiration. German text.

Handschriften Des Mittelalters - Grundwissen Kodikologie Und Palaographie (German, Paperback): Mathias Kluge Handschriften Des Mittelalters - Grundwissen Kodikologie Und Palaographie (German, Paperback)
Mathias Kluge
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Out of stock
Werk Und Prozess - Die Bildkunstlerische Ausstattung Der Stralsunder Kirchen - Eine Werkgeschichte (German, Hardcover):... Werk Und Prozess - Die Bildkunstlerische Ausstattung Der Stralsunder Kirchen - Eine Werkgeschichte (German, Hardcover)
Burkhard Kunkel
R1,956 R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Save R334 (17%) Out of stock
Im Zeichen Des Kreuzes - Die Limburger Staurothek Und Ihre Geschichte (German, Paperback): August Heuser, Matthias Theodor Kloft Im Zeichen Des Kreuzes - Die Limburger Staurothek Und Ihre Geschichte (German, Paperback)
August Heuser, Matthias Theodor Kloft
R882 R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Save R141 (16%) Out of stock
Das Triumphkreuz Im Dom Zu Lubeck - Dokumentation Einer Restaurierung (German, Hardcover): Jan Friedrich Richter Das Triumphkreuz Im Dom Zu Lubeck - Dokumentation Einer Restaurierung (German, Hardcover)
Jan Friedrich Richter
R2,781 R2,067 Discovery Miles 20 670 Save R714 (26%) Out of stock
Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Age - Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500 (Hardcover): Kathleen Kamerick Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Age - Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500 (Hardcover)
Kathleen Kamerick
R2,293 Discovery Miles 22 930 Out of stock

Medieval churchmen typically defended religious art as a form of "book" to teach the unlettered laity their faith, but in late medieval England, Lollard accusations of idolatry stimulated renewed debate over image worship. Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages places this dispute within the context of the religious beliefs and devotional practices of lay people, showing how they used and responded to holy images in their parish churches, at shrines, and in prayer books. Far more than substitutes for texts, holy images presented a junction of the material and spiritual, offering an increasingly literate laity access to the supernatural through the visual power of "beholding."

Zugange Zu Archaologie, Bauforschung Und Kunstgeschichte - Nicht Nur in Westfalen - Festschrift Fur Uwe Lobbedey Zum 80.... Zugange Zu Archaologie, Bauforschung Und Kunstgeschichte - Nicht Nur in Westfalen - Festschrift Fur Uwe Lobbedey Zum 80. Geburtstag (German, Hardcover)
Mareike Liedmann, Verena Smit
R1,455 R1,291 Discovery Miles 12 910 Save R164 (11%) Out of stock
Drachenlandung - Ein Hildesheimer Drachen-Aquamanile Des 12. Jahrhunderts (German, Hardcover): Gerhard Lutz, Joanna Olchawa Drachenlandung - Ein Hildesheimer Drachen-Aquamanile Des 12. Jahrhunderts (German, Hardcover)
Gerhard Lutz, Joanna Olchawa
R1,152 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R90 (8%) Out of stock
Frescoes of Mar Musa Al-Habashi (Hardcover): Erica Cruikshank Dodd Frescoes of Mar Musa Al-Habashi (Hardcover)
Erica Cruikshank Dodd
R2,108 Discovery Miles 21 080 Out of stock
Die Stephansburse - Die Sprache Der Steine: Edelsteinallegorese Im Fruhen Mittelalter (German, Paperback): Renate Prochno Die Stephansburse - Die Sprache Der Steine: Edelsteinallegorese Im Fruhen Mittelalter (German, Paperback)
Renate Prochno
R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Out of stock
Europaische Bildungsideale Des Mittelalters in Den Fornaldarsogur (English, German, Paperback): Gudrun Lange Europaische Bildungsideale Des Mittelalters in Den Fornaldarsogur (English, German, Paperback)
Gudrun Lange
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Out of stock
Series Byzantina, Studies on Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art, Volume III (English, French, Paperback): Archeobooks Series Byzantina, Studies on Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art, Volume III (English, French, Paperback)
Archeobooks
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Out of stock
Die Illustrierten Homilien Des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz (German, Hardcover): Karin Krause Die Illustrierten Homilien Des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz (German, Hardcover)
Karin Krause
R3,868 Discovery Miles 38 680 Out of stock

Das Werk ist die erste systematische Studie der illustrierten Homilien des wohl bedeutendsten byzantinischen Kirchenlehrers. Die bislang wenig oder gar nicht bekannten Manuskripte werden mittels neuer methodischer Ansatze prasentiert und in ihrem jeweiligen Entstehungskontext gewurdigt. Immer wieder eroffnet die Studie auch interessante Einblicke in die Organisation von Werkstatten der Buchproduktion. Im Mittelpunkt steht die stilistische und ikonographische Untersuchung der Miniaturen sowie die Analyse ihrer verschiedenartigen Textbezuge. Anhand zeitgenossischer Quellen werden auch die Benutzungsarten der Homiliare sowie der Rang des Johannes Chrysostomos und seiner Texte in Byzanz beschrieben.

Das Matutinalbuch Aus Scheyern - Faksimile Der Bildseiten Aus Dem Codex Latinus Monacensis 17401 Der Bayerischen... Das Matutinalbuch Aus Scheyern - Faksimile Der Bildseiten Aus Dem Codex Latinus Monacensis 17401 Der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munchen (German, Hardcover)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Renate Kroos
R32,770 Discovery Miles 327 700 Out of stock

Facsimile. Das aMatutinalbuch aus Scheyerno enthalt wichtige Zeugnisse romanischer Buchmalerei des fruhen 15. Jahrhunderts im eutschen Sprachraum und erweist sich durch die Vielfalt der beigebundenen Texte und Bilder als ein uber den liturgischen Raum hinaus bedeutendes Zeitdokument. Das Matutinale enstand zwischen 1215 und 1225 im Auftrag des Abtes Conrad I. im Kloster Scheyern und gehorte zu den ersten Ausstattungsgegestanden der neuen, Maria geweihten Kirche. Das groaformatige, reich illuminierte Buch war in erster Linie fur den nachtlichen Gottesdienst (Matutin) bestimmt - die Blatter zeigen die Spuren intensiver Benutzung, auch gelegentliche Wachs- oder Talgflecken. Der faksimilierte Bilderzyklus enthalt die monumentale Darstellung des apokalyptischen Weibes mit dem Drachen, aber auch andere ikonographisch und kunstlerisch bedeutende Miniaturen. Die wenigen bis heute veroffentlichten Miniaturen wurden wegen des auaergewohnlich groaen Formates des Buches stets verkleinert widergegeben. Nun erstmals in Originalgroae reproduziert, kommen Formenreichtum und Ausdruckskraft der Bilder voll zur Geltung.

Erfurt - Koln - Oppenheim - Quellen Und Studien Zur Restaurierungsgeschichte Mittelalterlicher Farbverglasungen (German,... Erfurt - Koln - Oppenheim - Quellen Und Studien Zur Restaurierungsgeschichte Mittelalterlicher Farbverglasungen (German, Hardcover)
Falko Bornschein, Ulrike Brinkmann, Ivo Rauch; Introduction by Rudiger Becksmann
R2,922 Discovery Miles 29 220 Out of stock
The Architecture of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas (Hardcover): Charalambos Bouras The Architecture of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas (Hardcover)
Charalambos Bouras
R1,820 Discovery Miles 18 200 Out of stock
Image and Relic. - Mediating the Sacred in Early Medieval Rome (Paperback): Erik Thuno Image and Relic. - Mediating the Sacred in Early Medieval Rome (Paperback)
Erik Thuno
R4,476 Discovery Miles 44 760 Out of stock
Die Inschriften Der Stadt Wiesbaden (German, Hardcover): Yvonne Monsees Die Inschriften Der Stadt Wiesbaden (German, Hardcover)
Yvonne Monsees; As told to Rudiger Fuchs
R1,315 Discovery Miles 13 150 Out of stock

Dieser Band enthalt 131 Katalognummern mit mittelalterlichen und fruhneuzeitlichen Inschriften der Stadt Wiesbaden und ihrer eingemeindeten Vororte bis zum Jahr 1700. Sowohl die im Original erhaltenen als auch die verlorenen, jedoch durch Abschriften, Zeichnungen oder Fotos uberlieferten Inschriften wurden in den Katalog aufgenommen. Die altesten Grabsteine des 5. bis 6. Jahrhunderts legen Zeugnis ab von dem Weiterleben christlicher Glaubenstradition in der germanischen Bevolkerung nach dem Ende der romischen Herrschaft am Rhein. Gegen Ende des Mittelalters setzt auch in Wiesbaden die allenthalben zu beobachtende Verdichtung des Materials ein. Der Kreis der Auftraggeber von Inschriften erweitert sich und umfasst nun Adlige, Amtleute, Pfarrer und ein Jahrhundert spater auch Burgerliche, die in der untergegangenen Mauritiuskirche und den Vororten ihre Denkmaler hinterliessen. Die Einleitung des Bandes stellt Bezuge zwischen dem Inschriftenbestand und der Stadtgeschichte her. Im Katalogteil werden die Inschriftentrager beschrieben, die Texte wiedergegeben, bei Bedarf mit Ubersetzungen versehen und eingehend besprochen. Register und ein ausfuhrlicher Tafelteil erganzen die Edition.

Der Serbische Psalter - Textband Zur Faksimile-Ausgabe Des Cod.Slav. 4 Der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munchen (German,... Der Serbische Psalter - Textband Zur Faksimile-Ausgabe Des Cod.Slav. 4 Der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munchen (German, Hardcover, Faksimile-Ausg ed.)
Hans Belting
R4,623 Discovery Miles 46 230 Out of stock

Documentation, belongs to facsimile edition.

Die Mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Freiburg Im Breisgau (German, Hardcover, 1., Auflage ed.): Rudiger Becksmann Die Mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Freiburg Im Breisgau (German, Hardcover, 1., Auflage ed.)
Rudiger Becksmann; Edited by Hartmut Scholz
R4,042 Discovery Miles 40 420 Out of stock
Body-Worlds - Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination (Hardcover, New): Karl Whittington Body-Worlds - Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination (Hardcover, New)
Karl Whittington
R1,898 Discovery Miles 18 980 Out of stock

Opicinus's drawings complicate many of our assumptions about medieval visual culture, and spark lines of inquiry into the interplay of religion and science, the practice of experimentation, the operations of allegory in the fourteenth century, and ultimately into the status of representation itself. In 1334, an Italian priest named Opicinus de Canistris fell ill and experienced a divine vision of continents and oceans transformed into human figures, a vision which inspired numerous drawings. While they relate closely to contemporary maps and seacharts, religious iconography, medical illustration, and cosmological diagrams, Opicinus's drawings cannot be assimilated to any of these categories. In their beautiful strangeness they complicate many of our assumptions about medieval visual culture, and spark lines of inquiry into the interplay of religion and science, the practice of experimentation, the operations of allegory in the fourteenth century, and ultimately into the status of representation itself.

Les Eglises Doubles Et Les Familles D'Eglises (Paperback): Jean Hubert Les Eglises Doubles Et Les Familles D'Eglises (Paperback)
Jean Hubert
R1,966 R1,581 Discovery Miles 15 810 Save R385 (20%) Out of stock
Eye and Mind - Collected Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art by Robert Deshman (Paperback): Adam S. Cohen Eye and Mind - Collected Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art by Robert Deshman (Paperback)
Adam S. Cohen
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Out of stock

Robert Deshman wove together a dense and tightly structured nexus of Early Christian, Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, and Ottonian manuscript illuminations, ivories, textiles, mosaics, and wall paintings on the one hand, and contemporary exegetical, liturgical, and political writings on the other. In so doing, he ultimately demonstrated the intrinsic connections among visual culture, theology, philosophy, political theory, and ecclesiastic doctrine and practice. Although he used the word only once in his own writings, at the very end of his career, Deshman was truly an interdisciplinary scholar of the first order. The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997 (four posthumously) in six different journals and four edited books. Reprinting them is meant not only to make the articles more accessible but also to present a cohesive body of work (primarily on Anglo-Saxon art) that as a whole has yet to be surpassed or methodologically replaced in the scholarly literature.

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