The easter sepulchre in england

In addition to a catalogue of Easter sepulchres in England, Professor Sheingorn has produced a superb study of the ceremonies, rites and dramas associated with this structure.

The ethiopian legend of solomon and sheba

The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women of antiquity, rivaled only by Cleopatra and Helen of Troy for wealth, power and beauty. She is best known for her legendary meeting with King Solomon, an encounter that has resonated through time, nowhere more powerfully than in Ethiopia. 95 colo...

Vernacular theatre

A practical description of six intergenerational projects developed during a ten-year period. Over the course of the book the author develops his argument for a form of civic drama that is accessible to all but rigorous in process. Based on work made with citizens of London and Hiroshima. 13 col....

Ken gonzales-day

Accompanying an exhibition by the same name, this book addresses the life work of Ken Gonzales-Day, a Los Angeles based artist, scholar, teacher, and curator who explores race and place in his photographic and filmic works, drawings, and paintings as well as through his research and puts the arti...

Gender and historiography: studies in the earlier middle ages in honour of pauline stafford

The chapters in this volume celebrate the work of Pauline Stafford, highlighting the ways in which it has advanced research in the fields of both Anglo-Saxon history and the history of medieval women and gender. Ranging across the period, and over much of the old Carolingian world as well as Angl...

Images of the pagan gods

Ernst kitzinger and the making of medieval art history

This volume brings together the papers given at the colloquium held at the Warburg Institute to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Kitzinger. His work has been, and still is, fundamentally influential on the present-day discipline of art history in a wide range of topics. The first ...

Blackburn’s ‘worthy citizen’: the philanthropic legacy of r.e. hart

The exceptionally fine colour images in this catalogue are selections from the R.E. Hart Collection held by the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. Seven medieval manuscripts and three incunables from the Collection were exhibited at Senate House Library in November of 2013. This project, Blackburn...

New world objects of knowledge

With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and mus...

Pictorial composition from medieval to modern art

Three lectures on leonardo

Aby Warburg delivered his Lectures on Leonardo in 1899 to introduce himself as a young art historian and private scholar to the wider public. These texts are now published for the first time, fully illustrated and translated into English. The lectures give an insight into Warburg as a public spea...

Recasting commodity and spectacle in the indigenous americas

Features color illustrations throughout, examines the ways in which contemporary indigenous peoples in different parts of the Americas have harnessed performance practices to resist imposed stereotypes and shape their own complex identities.

Exploring ancient sculpture – essays in honour of geoffrey waywell (bics supplement 104)

The roman sketchbook of girolamo da carpi

Shaping knowledge: the transmission of the 'liber floridus'

The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by Lambert of Saint-Omer in the early twelfth century, survives not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in several later manuscripts. These manuscripts transformed the knowledge assembled by him as their makers not only selected ...

Modus operandi: essays in honour of geoffrey rickman (bics supplement 71)

Images and texts: papers in honour of eric handley (bics supplement 129)

Greek large-scale bronze statuary: the late archaic and classical periods

This book presents a new study of Greek large-scale bronze statuary of the late Archaic and Classical periods. It examines the discovery, origin, style, date, artistic attribution, identification, and interpretation of the surviving bronzes, and focuses in particular on their technical features a...

Salted earth

The author makes a series of journeys, carrying out artistic practices uncovering histories, geographies, and biographies of salt and the places it has passed through. These practices explore both personal family history and the global entanglements of trade, labour, colonialism and migration nar...

Dark film, blood money

A thought-provoking interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking, from the 1970s to the 2020s, through the lens of the economic, encompassing issues of trust, professionalism, race, artistic influence, and the relation between business and family. 14 b&w illus.

Visions of a huichol shaman

Showing resistance

This study charts how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political intervention during the two decades from 1933: giving urgent warnings against the rise of fascism, providing practical information about how to live frugally and signalling international political alignments, beliefs and aff...

A history of arab graphic design (arabic edition)

PROSE Award Winner, Art History & Criticism “Easily the best introduction to the history of modern Arab visual culture on the market today.”—The Brooklyn Rail The first-ever book-length history of Arab graphic design, now available in ArabicArab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth c...

Tribal and the cultural legacy of streetwear

Tribal Streetwear is a lifestyle streetwear brand that is inspired by a variety of southern California sub-cultures that includes graffiti, street art, skateboarding, surfing, tattoos, hip hop, breakdancing, punk, low-riders, and custom culture. This edited volume uses Tribal as a lens for examin...

Lifework

This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the ‘autobiographical turn’ in art, literature and critical theory since the mid-1960s. Through a variety of perspectives, it examines the relationship between work and life, notions of the ‘self’ and what autobiography might mean today.

Heritopia

Heritopia creatively investigates the meaning of the past in the present, using Abu Simbel and other World Heritage sites as points of departure. It paves the way for a new discourse about pastness, heritage and society. In doing so, it overcomes the division between critical heritage inquiry and...

Tattoos in crime and detective narratives

Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present).

The challenge of the sublime

This interdisciplinary study looks at the influence of Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime on British Romantic art, arguing that it is far more significant than previously imagined.

Byzantium, italy and the north

Anthony Cutler's seventeen papers in this volume span Byzantine topics, historiography, Italian relations, and Scandinavian art, emphasising the link between artifacts and the cultures they represent, challenging the art historian's focus on form over origin.

Acropolis (english language edition)

Designed to be a useful travel companion. Descriptions and interpretation show the monuments of Athens in a different way and help visitors to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. 95 col illus.

Studies in the islamic arts of the book

This volume discusses Persian book painting (14th-16th centuries), its evolution, and its interpretations of the Shahnama in the context of contemporary politics. It explores the interplay between text and image, offering insights for specialists in Islamic art and book painting.

Gesture in medieval drama and art

Gesture and movement on stage in drama of the Late Middle Ages have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early s...

The shrine of eileithyia, minoan goddess of childbirth and motherhood volume ii

This book presents the pottery and the clay and metal sculptures dedicated to the deity Eileithyia in her shrine at Inatos, in southern Crete. This is the second of three planned volumes on this assemblage of specialized gifts to a unique goddess. It follows the Egyptiaka from the shrine that wer...

Byzance, les slaves et l'occident

Sixteen studies by Velmans, a pupil of André Grabar, focusing on Byzantine art and its influence on Slavic lands. Themes include the Fountain of Life, Akathistos cycle, and Byzantine-derived subjects in Western Europe, iconographic developments, Western influence on Byzantine and Slavic art, and ...

Artists' art in the renaissance

Presents case studies highlighting a class of C15th Italian art created privately by artists for personal satisfaction. It examines works by Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Bellini and Titian, focusing on their testaments and inventories to uncover the meaning behind these works of...

Guide to the benin collection at the penn museum

This guide examines America's oldest collection of Benin art, and one of its least published. Ivory, brass, and wooden art from one of the greatest African precolonial states, the only sub-Saharan polity with 500 years of surviving art, are examined through contextual lenses that provide insight ...

Travelling drawings/reisezeichnungen/taksidiotika skitsa (english, german, greek trilingual edition)

The architect Dimitris Manikas studied at the Technical University of Vienna, long before the digital age. This collection of drawings from his travels show someone who travels with open eyes and knows how to recognize what is essential. 67 illustrations. Trilingual edition - text in English, Ger...

Gold brocade and renaissance painting

Considers the representation of Italian Renaissance patterned silks in paintings from the 14th to the 16th century. Explores why luxury textiles became popular in art, how artists accommodated the audience's desire for opulent fabrics, and how this contributed to the social status of painting.

Ta bizantina mnimia sti neoteri ellada

Study of the treatment of Byzantine monuments during the first one hundred years of the Greek State (1833-1939). Based on archival material published for the first time. An essential contribution to research into the history of Greek cultural heritage and of European restorations. Greek language ...

Roman museums

A collection of essays by the late Donald Strong, grouped into four sections (general, architectural studies, sculpture, acquisitions at the British Museum), edited by Susan Walker. It includes Strong’s inaugural lecture as Professor of Archaeology at London University, on the Romans and archaeol...

Studies in english bible illustration, volume i

George Henderson's work on English biblical illumination sheds light on Anglo-Saxon and Norman manuscripts' sources and artists' creativity. His two volumes trace links to antique sources, innovations, and lost art, while the second volume focuses on thirteenth-century Anglo-French Apocalypses an...

Studies in indian sculpture and painting

Douglas Barrett, prominent in Indian art, presents three sections in his work: North India sculpture, Deccan painting & sculpture (Amaravati school), and South India sculpture.

Studies in silk in byzantium

This book collects 17 papers by Anna Muthesius, covering topics like Byzantine sericulture, silk's ecclesiastical role, and the impact of Byzantine silks in various regions from the 5th to 15th centuries. It complements her earlier work on Byzantine and Islamic silk weaving.

Art, culture and nature

Collected essays, editorials, and conference papers by John Onians, who has worked to expand and deepen the field of art history for 30 years. He explores art as an aspect of culture, the link between art and human neurobiology, and his efforts to renew art history and encourage similar developme...

Pearls of wisdom

This catalogue of a Kelsey Museum of Archaeology exhibition showcases a selection of Islamic art works held in the University of Michigan's collections. Rather than arranged chronologically, geographically, or by media, the objects are organized thematically and conceptually.

Pots and pans of classical athens

By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how different vessel forms were used in classical Athens. By linking the shapes of pots with their social functions, this book gives meaning to the ancie...

Studies in english bible illustration, volume ii

George Henderson's work on English biblical illumination sheds light on Anglo-Saxon and Norman manuscripts' sources and artists' creativity. His two volumes trace links to antique sources, innovations, and lost art, while the second volume focuses on thirteenth-century Anglo-French Apocalypses an...

Eye and mind

The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997. Reprinting them is meant not only to make the articles more accessible but also to present a cohesive body of work (primarily on Anglo-Saxon art) that as a whole has yet to be surpassed or methodologically replac...

Studies in the history of medieval italian painting, volume ii

Edward Garrison's four volumes represented a landmark in the study of medieval Italian painting in the Papal States and Tuscany in the C12th. The books feature photos of miniatures, ornamental initials, wall-paintings and panels. They represent one of the most valuable sources of information abou...

Macedonian treasures (english language edition)

This guide to the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai - in Imathia, Central Macedonia - takes the reader step by step on the tour of this particularly spare and austere, yet simultaneously atmospheric, exhibition of the treasures from these tombs. Impressive photographs accompany historical inform...

Creation and separation

Tang Taizong (Li Shimin), 2nd emperor of the Tang dynasty, commissioned six stone statues of his favourite warhorses to serve as part of his political legacy at his mausoleum, Zhao Ling. This book traces the history and significance of these statues, from their creation in 7th-century China, to t...

Word, picture, and spectacle

Essays addressing issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts, connections between word and picture in religious art, perceived relationship between divine and human creativity and an exploration in the phe...

A culture of translation

This volume of essays focuses principally on the collection of books of British and Irish antiquarian scholars held in the Gennadius Library. The book explores the work of some of the most pioneering British and Irish 18th and early 19th century antiquarians, artists and architects who voyaged in...

The care for the antiquities in greece and the first museums

Book discusses issues connected both with the development of archaeology and with the history of modern Greece. Covers the fifteenth century until the mid-1970s, from the state of ancient monuments under Turkish rule to the building museums in Athens and the provinces. Greek language text. 142 b&...

The mosaics of thessaloniki revisited

Essays on the chronology and interpretation of the Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki. Edited collection of papers by expert authors, originally presented at a symposium held in 2014 at the Courtauld Institute of Art. 67 colour illustrations.

Aedificia nova

The essays vary in subject, discipline, and methodological approach, they center on the interpretation of the material world, whether in literature, stone, or the artifacts removed from an archaeological dig. The essays deal mainly with the Germanic and Celtic worlds, but incorporate motifs from ...

Second chance

This volume comprises selected articles from Professor Ridgway's extensive body of work on Greek sculpture, organized chronologically to showcase her evolving views. Most of these articles were published in foreign journals and have been updated with end-of-book notes.

Pictures as language

Christopher Walter's research on Byzantine art emphasises the significance of iconography, as the Byzantines believed pictures could convey messages. This collection of Walter’s essays explores the way in which images were used in manuscripts, for ecclesiological purposes, to instruct on liturgy,...

Studies in the islamic decorative arts

These studies cover Islamic decorative arts from the 7th to 17th century, exploring iconography and meanings in various media such as ceramics, metalwork, coins, carpets, calligraphy, woodwork, and ivory. Islamic art melds earlier iconography with its symbols, presenting a rich and diverse artist...

Studies in italian art

This collection covers diverse art historical topics, including connoisseurship, patronage, workshop methods, and the interplay of form and meaning. Topics include the Brancacci Chapel mural decoration by Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi, accompanied by numerous illustrations, some previou...

The aegean world

This is the first companion guide on the Ashmolean's outstanding 12,000 object Aegean collection, the best and most comprehensive outside Greece including Neolithic and Cycladic antiquities, the best Minoan collection outside Crete.  362 col illus. published in collaboration with the Ashmolean Mu...

Studies on metalwork, ivories and stone

Peter Lasko, expert in Medieval luxury arts, authored "Ars Sacra," the primary reference in the field. His collection of 21 papers covers sculpture, metalwork, ivory carving, restoration ethics, and art history discipline.

Studies in the art and imagery of the middle ages

This volume brings together thirty-one of Professor Marks studies, encompassing historiography, stained glass, manuscript illumination, screen and wall painting, sculpture and funerary monuments.

To odiporiko enos sillekti. sillogi vasili korkolopoulos

Catalogue of the Vasilis Korkolopoulos Collection of rare items of folk art from the recent past, including weapons, cartridge pouches, amulets, watches, etc. Prologue by Professor Angelos Delivorrias, Director of the Benaki Museum. Greek language text. 100+ colour illustrations.

Studies in byzantium, venice and the west, volume i

Otto Demus's significant contribution to Byzantine art is highlighted in these two volumes. Vol. I includes Demus's papers on various aspects of Byzantine art, including Palaeologan art and artistic techniques. Vol. II focuses on Demus's lifelong fascination with the mosaics of San Marco in Venic...

Studies on claude and poussin

Michael Kitson, a renowned European art historian, focused on landscape art, notably Claude Lorrain. He transformed the study of Claude's work, emphasizing aesthetic qualities. This volume includes 20 essays on Claude, Nicolas Poussin and Gaspard Dughet, varying in depth and scale, with an introd...

Late classical, hellenistic, and roman pottery

This volume presents the Late Classical through Roman pottery from the University of Chicago excavations at Isthmia (1952-1989).

L'art monumental de la france romane

The volume explores the evolution of the Corinthian capital, sculptural decoration, and architectural forms. It focuses on the Loire Valley, Berry, Bourbonnais, and Burgundy, regions known for their innovative art during the Capetian era.

Studies in medieval art and interpretation

Cahn's diverse interests in Romanesque art from the 11th and 12th centuries, including sculpture, painting and book illumination, are displayed in this collection. Themes include the relationship between art and Biblical exegesis, Cistercian art, art's role in expressing beliefs, the depiction of...

Design and techniques in early medieval celtic metalwork

This book examines Early Medieval Celtic design in a European context, its links to Anglo-Saxon and continental art, and its debt to classical traditions. It spans topics including gold origins, animal ornament evolution, and design principles and explores early Irish texts on jewellery and cloth...

Precious cloth and court culture

This book examines the use of precious cloths in courtly settings East and West between the 4th and the 16th centuries. Surviving precious cloths together with new interpretations of contemporary written and visual sources allow for an exploration of common mentalities across Latin Europe, the By...

Ceramic production and circulation in the greater southwest

Presents case studies of Southwestern ceramic production and distribution in which instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) is used as the primary analytical technique. Explores issues of exchange, migration, social identity, and economic organization, and provide a comparative perspective...

Guide to the archaeological museum of thessalonike (english language edition)

The Museum, one of the most important in Greece, houses masterpieces of Greek art associated with the history of Ancient Macedonia, from the 2nd millennium BC to the 4th century BC and the reigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. The Guide presents the rich, varied finds from important Macedo...

The art and culture of ancient egypt: studies in honor of dorothea arnold

Dorothea Arnold's career in Egyptology is distinguished by the scope of her scholarship. Contains 70 articles by 64 Egyptologists, conservators, and scientists, on aspects of art history, archaeology, burial customs, language, chronology, conservation, and museum studies covering all periods of A...

Studies in late medieval italian art

In this second volume of Professor White's studies, the emphasis shifts to Italian art in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the major figures who were responsible for the decisive changes in painting and sculpture that were to lead on to the Renaissance. Here again, however, there is t...

Cypriote antiquities in the s.o.f.i.a. foundation collection

This volume, authored by a leading authority in Cypriot archaeology, Professor Emeritus Vassos Karageorghis FBA, and with contributions by other scholars, aspires to make accessible many of the Cypriot artefacts from the collection of the S.O.F.I.A. Foundation in Nicosia, together with a part of ...

Studies in pictorial narrative

This volume contains 19 essays by Herbert Kessler exploring the relationship between pictures and texts in medieval art. It examines various aspects of this relationship, particularly in Christian art, illustrated manuscripts and monumental narratives. The book includes updated notes, a new prefa...

The shrine of eileithyia minoan goddess of childbirth and motherhood volume i

This volume is a catalog of the ancient Egyptian imports and Egyptianizing artifacts found in 1962 during the excavation of a cave near Tsoutsouros (ancient Inatos), Crete, Greece: a sanctuary dedicated to the Minoan and Greek goddess Eileithyia.

The mycenaean pictorial style

Catalogue of the collection of the National Archaeological Museum - includes vases from every part of Greece -many of which are the work of known vase-painters- decorated with figures of humans and animals, with ships and helmets, and with other motifs. English language text. 522 b&w illustra...

Studies in arthurian illustration vol ii

Two volumes gather Professor Stones's papers on Arthurian manuscript illustration, exploring the art and cultural context of Arthurian romances in the French-speaking world. These manuscripts featured text and images, offering insights into diverse patrons, scribes, and artists.

Studies in late byzantine painting

Doula Mouriki's 1991 death was a significant loss to Greek Byzantine art scholarship. This volume compiles 8 of her influential papers, mainly on Palaeologan monumental painting in Greece, with a focus on Georgian frescoes and 13th-century Cypriot icons. Includes a preface by Melita Emmanuel.

Art and archaeology of antiquity volume iii

These four volumes showcase Cornelius Vermeule's essential contributions to Graeco-Roman art studies over five decades. Covering Mycenaean to Byzantine art, with a focus on Greek and Roman sculpture during the Roman Empire. Studies presented were published in periodicals between 1953 and 1995, ea...

Studies of renaissance miniaturists in venice. vol 1

This collection focuses on miniaturists working in Venice and Northern Italy during the C15th and C16th and the impact of the invention of printing on artists and patrons. Topics include miniaturists and woodcut designers, iconographic traditions in manuscripts, the role of heraldry in Venetian p...

An obscure portrait

This book explores depictions of women's daily life in Byzantine art from the 4th to the Empire's end. It covers aspects like childbearing, motherhood, household work, and women in various roles. The book provides insight into women's experiences in Byzantine society through art.

Ritual and art

A Festschrift for Christopher Walter featuring studies on Byzantine church ritual and art by contributors including Jeffrey Anderson, David Buckton, Suzy Dufrenne, Tania Velmans, Panayotis Vokotopoulos, Albert Failler and Robert Taft. Includes a complete bibliography of Walter's publications and ...

The acropolis through its museum (english language edition)

Guide to the works of art in the Acropolis Museum. 210 col illus, plans and reconstruction drawings. Presents the history of the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis as part of the cultural and wider history of Athens. Author is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Athens University.

Studies in the art of china and south-east asia, volume i

Professor Sullivan, an expert on Chinese art, presents a collection of his papers covering traditional Chinese art and its development over two millennia. He discusses recurring themes, early screen and scroll painting, Ming and Ch'ing emperors' periods, and Western art influences. Additional not...

Studies in byzantine manuscript illumination and iconography

Ioannis Spatharakis's work on Byzantine manuscript painting created the standard corpus for dated illuminated Greek manuscripts. This collection of his essays study the history of portraits in Byzantine manuscripts, the era of Iconoclasm and the Macedonian Renaissance, the Palaeologan period, Cre...

Studies in burgundian romanesque sculpture, volume i

Romanesque sculpture in Burgundy, a crucial part of 11th and 12th-century European history, reflects the region's economic growth and monastic influence. Neil Stratford, a renowned expert, compiles two volumes of his studies on this topic, including lesser-known monuments and new insights. Vol.I:...

Studies in early christian and medieval irish art, volume i

Volume one of this collection focuses on enamel and metalwork, including Irish examples. Volume two delves into Irish manuscript illumination, spanning centuries of Christian Celtic art. Volume three covers early Christian architecture, sculpture, and her valuable contributions to the archaeology...

The garima gospels

Manuscripts preserved in a monastery in the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia, and according to legend written and partly illuminated by the Ethiopian missionary Abbu Garima, who arrived in Ethiopia in 494 CE: this is the first book to present all the illuminated pages with comparative materials...

National archaeological museum, athens (german language edition)

A guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, providing information about all the collections with emphasis on how they are displayed in the museum. Illustrations of representative works which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most important museum in Greece...

The church of christ the saviour, thessaloniki

The small Byzantine church of the Soter (Christ the Saviour) stands on modern Egnatia Street in Thessaloniki, to the west of the arch of Galerius.  This is a brief account of the archaeological excavation carried out after the 1978 earthquake, focusing on the wall paintings. 150 illustrations mos...