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Art in England: The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600
Sara N. James
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Description for Art in England: The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600
Hardback. The first single volume overview of art in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Includes architecture, painting, manuscript illumination and textiles. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; ACK; ACN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 290 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1586.
Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look ... Read more
Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1585g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785702235
SKU
V9781785702235
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About Sara N. James
Sara N. James is Professor Emerita of Art History at Mary Baldwin College, Virginia USA, where she taught art history and interdisciplinary courses in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and English art and architecture. She is the author of Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto: Liturgy, Poetry, and a Vision of the End-time (2003). In her life as an independent scholar, ... Read more
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