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History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400

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History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400

Hardcover. The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period, Iran dominated the art of book painting in the Islamic world. Num Pages: 556 pages, 258 illus. BIC Classification: ACK; HDD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
556
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904597490
ISBN
9781904597490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 244.52

Hardcover. Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, the author demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period - and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 colour plates, 78 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; ACK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226169125
ISBN
9780226169125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.11
€ 49.03

Hardback. Scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display. This book demonstrates the value of interpretive approaches to this famous and iconic artefact, by examining the textile's materiality, visuality, reception and historiography. Editor(s): Foys, Martin K.; Overbey, Karen Eileen; Terkla, Dan. Num Pages: 248 pages, 34 colour, 11 black and white. BIC Classification: 3H; ACK; AFWH; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 246 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843834700
ISBN
9781843834700
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.33
€ 70.45

Paperback. Wall paintings are a unique art form, complementing, and yet distinctly separate from, other religious imagery in churches. This book presents many of the surviving examples of medieval church wall paintings. Num Pages: 380 pages, 261, 255 colour, 6 black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; ACK; AFC; AMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 24. Weight in Grams: 996. 380 pages, 261, 255 colour, 6 black and white. Wall paintings are a unique art form, complementing, and yet distinctly separate from, other religious imagery in churches. This book presents many of the surviving examples of medieval church wall paintings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; ACK; AFC; AMN. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 24. Weight: 994.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
380
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843834847
ISBN
9781843834847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.20

Paperback. The walls of medieval churches were brightly painted with religious imagery and colourful patterns, and although often shadows of their former selves, these paintings are among the most enigmatic art to survive the Middle Ages. This book presents an introduction to this fascinating subject. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 96 pages, 80 b/w; 20 col. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; ACK; AFC; AGR; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 164 x 8. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747812937
ISBN
9780747812937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.51

Paperback. Argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. This title explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the signs of scripture. Translator(s): Whittall, Mary. Num Pages: 392 pages, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: ACK; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226706078
ISBN
9780226706078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 55 b&w plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; ACK; WCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 254 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Publisher
British Museum Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714118246
ISBN
9780714118246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.27

Hardback. Rosalie Green's interest in iconography provides a common thread in her work on the art of Europe during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Num Pages: 260 pages, 84 illus. BIC Classification: ACK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907132837
ISBN
9780907132837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.41

Paperback. Editor(s): Safran, Linda. Num Pages: 336 pages, 237 b&w and 21 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACK; AGR; AMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 279 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1014.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271016702
ISBN
9780271016702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.38
€ 55.67

Paperback. Monumental brasses became popular during the Middle Ages and were commonly mounted on the walls and floors of cathedrals to commemorate the great and wealthy. Often depicting knights and bishops, these representations are a major source of information concerning arms, armour and dress in the Middle Ages. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: ACK; AFK; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 4. Weight in Grams: 152. New.
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
9780747806776
ISBN
9780747806776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.21

Hardback. Features miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. This book features the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Series: Robert Lehman Collection Catalogues. Num Pages: 256 pages, 250 illus., including 33 color plates 217 duotones. BIC Classification: ACK; ACN; AKLB; GBCR; WFU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 287 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691059716
ISBN
9780691059716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.70
€ 80.25

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.
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785702235
ISBN
9781785702235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.17

Hardcover. Explores the history of Europe and the Mediterranean, bridging the gap between the Mediterranean and the North of Europe, the Byzantine and Roman empires and the barbarian world of the Dark Ages; a period that saw Christianity established as a major world religion as well as the rise of Islam. Num Pages: 340 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACG; ACK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1240.
Publisher
British Museum Press
Number of pages
366
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714123202
ISBN
9780714123202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.04

Hardcover. Editor(s): Kaspersen, Soren; Haastrup, Ulla. Num Pages: 330 pages, 168 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; ACK; AGR; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 219 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
330
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899039
ISBN
9788772899039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.15
€ 40.81

Hardcover. Presents a new way of understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: as rhetorical constructs. The author traces common analogies between rhetoric and architectural space that date back to late antiquity, and then shows how those links were translated into wood, stone, and space under specific local conditions. Num Pages: 336 pages, 36 halftones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: ACK; AMN; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 188 x 26. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226191805
ISBN
9780226191805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.43

Paperback. Focuses on one of the most remarkable examples of gothic art to have survived, a unique functioning table decoration. Series: Cleveland Masterwork. BIC Classification: ACK; AGC; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 222 x 15. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
GILES
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907804946
ISBN
9781907804946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.72

Hardcover. Did portraits exist in the medieval era? This title challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices, offering a case against the tendency of the scholarship to identify late medieval likenesses of historical personages as 'the first modern portraits'. Num Pages: 400 pages, 96 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; ACK; AGHF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226658797
ISBN
9780226658797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.39
€ 60.49

Hardback. Civilizations of great diversity have succeeded each other or co-existed in Eastern Turkey, and most of them have left monuments of high quality. Hittite, Urartian, Hellenistic, Roman, Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Arab, Seljuk and Ottoman, their remains are all represented in the region. Num Pages: 530 pages, 118 pls. BIC Classification: ACG; ACK; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 150. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
530
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907132325
ISBN
9780907132325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 356.29

hardcover. This second volume continues with a description of the fine Georgian monuments of the Tao region, including Ihan, Ok Vank, and Haho. The Pontus region comes next, the centre of the medieval Greek empire of Trebizond. The many Byzantine churches of Trabzon itself are covered, including Aya Sofya and the nearby monasteries of Sumela and Vazelon. Num Pages: 578 pages, 158 pls. BIC Classification: ACG; ACK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
578
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907132332
ISBN
9780907132332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 358.36

hardcover. In this third volume the regions covered are to the south and east of the Taurus range, beginning with the Upper and Lower Euphrates, which includes the Byzantine and Turkish buildings of Harput, Malatya and the Keban region, where there are also a number of churches and monastic sites. Num Pages: 524 pages, 152 pls, 34 maps & plans. BIC Classification: ACG; ACK; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
524
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907132349
ISBN
9780907132349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 355.50

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