A Companion to Medieval Art - C Rudolph - Bog

WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ART HISTORY A Companion to Medieval Art 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 examining the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Wiley 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. The second edition offers: Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new chapters Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains 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.