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The Angel Roofs of East Anglia - Unseen Masterpieces of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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The Angel Roofs of East Anglia - Unseen Masterpieces of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2016! It has been
estimated that over 90% of England's figurative medieval art was
obliterated in the image destruction of the Reformation. Medieval
angel roofs, timber structures with spectacular and ornate carvings
of angels, with a peculiar preponderance in East Anglia, were
simply too difficult for Reformation iconoclasts to reach. Angel
roof carvings comprise the largest surviving body of major English
medieval wood sculpture. Though they are both masterpieces of
sculpture and engineering, angel roofs have been almost completely
neglected by academics and art historians, because they are
inaccessible, fixed and challenging to photograph. 'The Angel Roofs
of East Anglia' is the first detailed historical and photographic
study of the region's many medieval angel roofs. It shows the
artistry and architecture of these inaccessible and little-studied
medieval artworks in more detail and clarity than ever before, and
explains how they were made, by whom, and why. Michael Rimmer
redresses the scholarly neglect and brings the beauty,
craftsmanship and history of these astonishing medieval creations
to the reader. The book also offers a fascinating new answer to the
question of why angel roofs are so overwhelmingly an East Anglian
phenomenon, but relatively rare elsewhere in the country.
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