Medieval Art : Romanesque Art-Gothic Art (987-1489)

This beautifully packaged, two-volume slipcased edition covers Romanesque art--the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century.
'Gothic Art' is defined by a powerful architecture of cathedrals of Northern France. It is a medieval art form that evolved throughout Europe over 200 years. Abandoning curved Roman forms, the architect started using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open cathedrals to daylight. A period of great social and economic change, the era incorporated new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary, a dramatic contrast to the dismal scenes of Roman times. Architecture, sculpture, painting, here is the decoration of the Stag Room at the Palace of the Popes, Avignon, 1343, beautifully illuminated parchments, scenes from the life of the Virgin or of St Sylvester, altarpieces made of tempera on panel, oils on panel with gilding such as Hans Memling's The Shrine of St Ursula 1489 and St Mary's Cathedral, Palma de Mallorca begun 1229 all among the many hundreds of full page photographs and examples and diagrams in this glamorous publication. The second volume is 'Romanesque Art'. In art history, Romanesque refers to the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. The era was characterised by a great diversity of regional schools, each practising their own style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, it is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography, this most handsome volume gives hundreds of full page examples in colour of mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, enamel and copper panels, sculpted wood, pulpits and bishop's thrones, door panels, priories and monasteries and convent churches, a horizontal plan of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compstela 1075-1128 and the Cathedral as it is today in a colour photograph, dozens of beautiful abbeys from the exterior and interior together with plans and views in Italy, France and all over Europe. See the fortified Castle of Brunswick 1173 and UNESCO World Heritage Sites among them.

Author: Victoria Charles

Publisher: Parkstone

Released Date: 2012

ISBN: 9781906981037