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Author : Joan Evans
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9781001288185
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Cluniac Art of the Romanesque Period written by Joan Evans and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1950 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Evans
Publisher : Gregg Division McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Romanesque Architecture of the Order of Cluny written by Joan Evans and published by Gregg Division McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1972 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Edson Armi
Publisher : L'Erma Di Bretschneider
ISBN 13 : 9788891317452
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Cluny and the Origins of Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture written by C. Edson Armi and published by L'Erma Di Bretschneider. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of individual sculptors in creating the ambulatory capitals in the largest basilica in Christendom at Cluny remains a mystery. The unresolved issue of individual creativity leaves open three important questions about this powerful abbey which controlled hundreds of monasteries throughout Europe in the eleventh century: What was the specific artistic context - the origin, training and career path of the major sculptors who worked at the mother church at the start of construction? What was the relationship, in time and influence, between the focal ambulatory capitals and similar sculptures at numerous local sites? And what role did artists play in determining the form and meaning of Cluny sculptures and related monuments? This book traces the career of a sculptor who worked on the earliest capitals in the abbey church at Cluny. It documents his artistic preferences at previous Burgundian projects, gathering a variety of evidence intended to be on the one hand precise, complex and subtle, and on the other convincingly repetitious. He treated gesture, pose, anatomy, drapery, foliage, architecture, background and space not only consistently but also in a complementary fashion. Plainly put, he blurred the traditional distinction between sculpture and architecture, displaying a rich and unique combination of artistic preferences even as he worked with different kinds of patrons on various subjects at numerous and diverse monuments. These findings are supported with high-resolution photographs taken at telling angles from high ladders and scaffolding. This version of the creative process at the mother church, in which the Cluniac brothers picked a local talent to carry out one of the most important sculptural commissions in Europe, differs markedly from the standard one based largely on presumed but undocumented artistic priorities of the monks. Prevailing theory assumes the monks had an international perspective when it came to art as they tried to establish at Cluny a new Rome as the centerpiece of their monastic empire. Rather than tap an experienced sculptor who worked in the indigenous masonry tradition, they would have looked toward foreign lands to find suitable artists who based their designs on high forms of art such as ivory, painting, and metalwork. C. Edson Armi Is a research professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has written books on Cluniac architecture and sculpture, design and construction in Romanesque architecture, Gothic sculpture, and American car design. He received the Society of Architectural Historians Founders' Award, the C.I.N.O.A. International Art History Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Author : Henri Focillon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Art of the West in the Middle Ages: Romanesque art written by Henri Focillon and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work is more than a history of Western medieval art: it is an aesthetic exploration into the development of medieval style, particularly as it is expressed itself in architecture and architectural decoration. The illustrations which accompany the text are designed to provide a visual complement to the author's instructive analyses and stimulating ideas. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Kenneth John Conant
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300052985
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200 written by Kenneth John Conant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Conant's detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic. In this volume he shows how, at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne, Roman methods of construction were revived and fused with local traditions to produce a distinctive Carolingian manner; and how such monuments as the Palatine Chapel at Aachen already contained hints of the nobler and more mature Romanesque style which was to become international. professor Conant extends his survey to cover the regions of medieval France, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Land, Italy, Germany, Northern Europe, and Britain.
Author : Janet T. Marquardt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443809470
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book From Martyr to Monument written by Janet T. Marquardt and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the French Revolution and the dissolution of the monastic orders, the great Abbey of Cluny in France was closed and the buildings were sold for materials. This process went on for nearly thirty years, just as a romantic appreciation of the medieval past was gaining popularity. Although the government was unable to halt most of the demolition work, one transept arm with a large and small tower was saved from ruin, along with a few small Gothic buildings and the eighteenth-century cloister. Efforts to preserve, repair, and reuse the remains waxed and waned for a century while historians wrote with regret about the abbey’s demise. In 1927, Kenneth Conant came from Harvard to excavate the site with American funding in order to prepare full-scale reconstructive drawings of the abbey. Conant’s vision of medieval Cluny entered the art-historical canon and placed Cluny at the center of debates about Romanesque architecture and sculptural decoration in Europe. This study follows the discursive history of the site while investigating the role of memory in the construction of the past and the development of the conception of heritage and patrimony in France. FOREWORD BY GILES CONSTABLE AND AVANT-PROPOS D'ERIC PALAZZO "Marquardt’s account of the modern resurrections of medieval Cluny is a riveting one." "...her research urges a rethinking of the modern conceptual structures that guide our study and interpretation of medieval art and culture." "Marquardt meditat[es] on the complex ideas, histories, events, and touristic activities (including the performance of pageants) that contributed to the fashioning of Cluny as a “memory site.” Kathryn L. Brush, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Author : Victoria Charles
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1783103256
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Romanesque Art written by Victoria Charles and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic style.
Author : J. J. M. Timmers
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Romanesque Art written by J. J. M. Timmers and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathryn Horste
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cloister Design and Monastic Reform in Toulouse written by Kathryn Horste and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst most scholarship in the field concentrates on the very early development of the Romanesque style in Toulouse, Dr. Horste's approach brings a fresh perspective to bear on the subject through her new definitions of second and third generation Romanesque sculpture, dating to c.1120-70. Focusing on the sculpture of three decorated cloisters she discusses current arguments concerning the revival of monumental sculpture in the Romanesque period; she also explores the role of Toulouse as an artistically active medieval city, its part in the monastic reform movement, and its political ties with the French monarchy in the later twelfth century. Dr. Horste's own photographs form a major contribution to her book: she has travelled throughout south-western France photographing Romanesque sculpture in many locations. She also provides a new series of photographs of the Romanesque sculptures in the Musee des Augustins in Toulouse, taken during a major reinstallation of the collections between 1976 and 1981.
Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Index of Christian Art Department of Art and Archeology Princeton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century written by Colum Hourihane and published by Index of Christian Art Department of Art and Archeology Princeton. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays examining Romanesque art and thought in the twelfth century. Issues of reception, innovation, nationalism, iconography, technology, dating, and geographic coverage are explored, as well as larger issues relating to Gothic and medieval art history.
Author : John McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781909662100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Romanesque and the Past written by John McNeill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteen papers collected in this volume explore a notable phenomenon, that of retrospection in the art and architecture of Romanesque Europe. They arise from a conference organized by the British Archaeological Association in 2010, and reflect its interest in how and why the past manifested itself in the visual culture of the 11th and 12th centuries. This took many forms, from the casual re-use of ancient material to a specific desire to re-present or emulate earlier objects and buildings. Central to it is a concern for the revival of Roman and early medieval forms, spolia, selective quotation, archaism and the construction of histories. The individual essays presented here cover a wide range of topics and media: the significance of consecration ceremonies in the creation of architectural memory, the rise of pictorial concepts in 12th-century chronicles, the creation of history in the Paris of Hugh of St-Victor, and the appeal of the works of Bernward of Hildesheim and of Hrabanus Maurus in the centuries after their deaths. There are studies of buildings and the ideological purpose behind them at Tarragona, Ripoll, Cluny, Pannonhalma (Hungary), La Roccelletta (Calabria), and Old St Peter's, comparative studies of Trier, Villenauxe and Glastonbury, and of Bury St Edmunds, Rievaulx and Canterbury, and wide-ranging papers on the tantalizing evidence for an engagement with an overseas past in Ireland, an Anglo-Saxon past in England, and a Milanese past among the aisleless cruciform churches of Augustinian Europe. The volume concludes with an assessment of the very concept of Romanesque.
Author : Susan Marcus
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460234979
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Romanesque Sculpture An Ecstatic Art written by Susan Marcus and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural sculpture, virtually abandoned for five hundred years following the demise of the Roman Empire, was revivified on the portals of Romanesque churches in eleventh and twelfth-century France and Spain. Long overdue is a reappraisal of those images whose aesthetic of rendering the invisible visible establish them as valuable witnesses to the culture of Europe in the Middle Ages. Countless losses, mutilation through wilful destruction, centuries of accumulated grime, and a dearth of studies in English have impeded the deserved realization and appreciation of these magnificent works of art. Through illustration and illuminative interpretation, Romanesque Sculpture An Ecstatic Art fills the void by tracing the beginnings, maturation, and efflorescence of monumental sculptured facades in the short-lived Romanesque era. Depictions on them are mirrors of the age: sophisticated theological messages, monastic life, the cult of relics, pilgrimages, crusades and politics. The survey considers too the sculptors, mostly anonymous, who in adapting models from several media - both antique and current - created a unique visual vocabulary. The beauty of the sculptures comes to the fore. The stones live!
Author : Gloria Fossi
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402759246
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Romanesque & Gothic written by Gloria Fossi and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often overshadowed by the Renaissance, the High Middle Ages were a time of vibrant innovation and incredible achievement in European art and architecture. Gloria Fossi provides comprehensive surveys of the period's two major art movements or styles, highlighting the diversity of expression that both movements accommodated.
Author : C. Edson Armi
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: Text written by C. Edson Armi and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, archaeologists and art historians studying the great third abbey at Cluny (Cluny III) have "agreed on a set of abstract principles, including its spontaneous generation or revolutionary character, and posited an overseeing genius who selected from non-local sources." In a sweeping revision of that position, this book argues that Cluny Ill is "the building where regional masons of different traditions first combined their talents to develop a new design," and further maintains that the artisans responsible for the masonry of Cluny Ill also created its sculpture. Professor Armi reaches these conclusions through a painstaking analysis of archaeological evidence, such as masons' marks, and a careful "hand analysis" of the site's sculpture, allowing observation of both individual and general design changes, turning points, and stylistic trends. As a result of his investigation of the major Burgundian structures of the period Cluny, Vézelay, Paray-le-Monial, Anzy-le-Duc, Perrecy-les-Forges, etc., the author has established a new chronology for the architecture of the region. He also has identified the careers of the major artists who carved the portal and capital sculpture. His research has even disproved the traditional assumption that sculpture was carved in situ, for his evidence reveals that finished pieces were fitted into the masonry at Cluny III and elsewhere. By focusing on the work of individual masons and on progressive alterations in architectural detail, the author has broken with the method of his predecessors, but there is ample support for both his methods and his conclusions in the book's 400 illustrations. In his use of macrophotography alone, Armi has added a valuable new methodological tool for the comprehension of both architecture and sculpture, but his most important contribution to the field lies in showing that, by working together, two local groups of masons merged their separate traditions to create a magnificent synthesis: the Cluniac High Romanesque style.
Author : Millard Fillmore Hearn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801493041
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Romanesque Sculpture written by Millard Fillmore Hearn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Watkin
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856694599
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Architecture written by David Watkin and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the dramatic impact of CAD on architectural practice at the beginning of the 21st century.
Author : Andreas Petzold
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Romanesque Art written by Andreas Petzold and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andreas Petzold examines medieval European art in the broader context of its relationship to the art of Byzantium and Islam, tracing the influences among these cultures through trade and the Crusades. He views Romanesque art in terms of the social structures that organized the medieval world - church, princely court, peasant society - discovering on the way the important role of women as artists and patrons, the complex relationships among religious and secular institutions, and the ways that sculpture, architecture, painting, and other art forms developed in style and technique to express a world no longer Classical but not yet Gothic.
