The Stammheim Missal

Author: Elizabeth Cover Teviotdale
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236615X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
The Stammheim Missal is one of the most visually dazzling and theologically ambitious works of German Romanesque art. Containing the text recited by the priest and the chants sung by the choir at mass, the manuscript was produced in Lower Saxony around 1160 at Saint Michael's Abbey at Hildesheim, a celebrated abbey in medieval Germany. This informative volume features color illustrations of all the manuscript's major decorations. The author surveys the manuscript, its illuminations, and the circumstances surrounding its creation, then explores the tradition of the illumination of mass books and the representation of Jewish scriptures in Christian art. Teviotdale then considers the iconography of the manuscript's illuminations, identifies and translates many of its numerous Latin inscriptions, and finally considers the missal and its visually sophisticated and religiously complex miniatures as a whole.

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts

Author: Michelle Brown
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066110
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the techniques, processes, materials, nomenclature, and styles used in the making of these precious books. Updated to reflect current research and technologies, this beautifully illustrated guide includes images of important manuscript illuminations from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and beyond. Concise, readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered in manuscript studies make this portable volume an essential resource for students, scholars, and readers who wish a deeper understanding and enjoyment of illuminated manuscripts and medieval book production.

Imperial Splendor

Author: Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282860
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
A highly-illustrated history and survey of centers of book production and use within the Holy Roman Empire over the course of seven hundred years.

The Gothic Screen

Author: Jacqueline E. Jung
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022959
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church.

Gendered Lives

Author: Nadine T. Fernandez
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438486960
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470

Book Description
Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. Each research-based chapter begins with a chapter overview and learning objectives and closes with discussion questions and resources for further exploration. This modular, regional approach allows instructors to select the regions and cases they want to use in their courses. While they can be used separately, the chapters are connected through the book's central themes of globalization and intersectionality. An OER version of this course is freely available thanks to the generous support of SUNY OER Services. Access the book online at https://milneopentextbooks.org/gendered-lives-global-issues/.

Song of the Nibelungs

Author:
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125986
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.

A Companion to Medieval Art

Author: Conrad Rudolph
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119077729
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

Book Description
A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more. Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections

Author: John Walsh
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892364769
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty

Gardens of the Renaissance

Author: J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061437
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
Whether part of a grand villa or an extension of a common kitchen, gardens in the Renaissance were planted and treasured in all reaches of society. Illuminated manuscripts of the period offer a glimpse into how people at the time pictured, used, and enjoyed these idyllic green spaces. This illustrated volume explores gardens on many levels, from the literary Garden of Love and the biblical Garden of Eden to courtly gardens of the nobility, and reports on the many activities that took place there.

Painting the Hortus Deliciarum

Author: Danielle Joyner
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271070889
Category : Christian women
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Examines the visual traditions in a lost late twelfth-century manuscript, the Hortus deliciarum, compiled by Abbess Herrad for the sisters of Hohenbourg Abbey in Alsace. Argues that the topic of time, in the context of history, astronomy, and the calendar, was of central importance to the women's education.