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Ars Sacra, 800-1200 (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Ars Sacra, 800-1200 (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series
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The magnificent bronze doors of Hildesheim Cathedral, the ivory,
gold, enameled, and bejeweled book covers made to contain superbly
illuminated manuscripts, the startling reliquary caskets made in
the shape of the part of the body supposed to be contained within
them-these and other sacred objects were contained within church
treasuries and cloisters in the early Middle Ages in Europe. This
beautiful book traces the development of these so-called Minor Arts
and the major role they played alongside the other pictorial arts
and architectural sculpture of the period. Although it is
impossible to establish a strict chronology of this period, since
styles evolved concurrently and with varying speed across diverse
regions of Europe, Peter Lasko has established an object-based
chronology that enables him to trace the developments of these
styles. In addition, he describes the personalities, stylistic
traits, and influence of some of the great craftsmen whose names
are briefly recorded in cathedral treasury records. He surveys the
sacred arts from Scandinavia to Spain and from Italy to England,
examining the impact of English art on the court of Charlemagne and
investigating external influences on English art both before and
after the Norman Conquest. Lasko records the wide range of opinions
on style and method and also explicates his own; his comprehensive
survey of craftsmanship alters previous assumptions about
chronologies, creates new groupings of materials, and reassesses
stylistic sources.
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