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The altar and its environment, 1150-1400 /
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Altarpieces, Medieval; Altars, Medieval; Liturgy and art;
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The altar and the altarpiece : sacramental themes in early Netherlandish painting / by Lane, Barbara G.(CARDINAL)280501;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.
Subjects: Altarpieces, Dutch.; Altarpieces, Flemish.; Altarpieces, Gothic; Altarpieces, Gothic; Christian art and symbolism; Mass in art.;
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The emergence of Christianity : classical traditions in contemporary perspective / by White, Cynthia(Cynthia L. V. K.)(CARDINAL)602874;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.Historical overview -- Features of ancient Mediterranean -- Religious practices -- Judaic historical background -- Christianity and the Roman empire -- Conclusion -- Jews and Christians: the dynasty of Herod the Great -- The rise of Herod the Great -- The life of Jesus -- The separation of Judaism -- And Christianity -- The missionary church -- Conclusion -- Romans and Christians: Constantine's Christian monotheism -- Ancient forms of monotheism -- The reign of Diocletian -- The "conversion" of Constantine -- Conclusion -- Christians and Christians: Pope Damasus and the christianization of Rome -- Pope Damasus -- The primacy of Rome -- Martyr acts of Saint Agnes, patron saint of Rome -- Conclusion -- Pagans and Christians: the altar of victory -- The Roman senate and the Christian court -- Doctrinal debates -- Ambrose, Gratian, and the altar -- Of victory -- Ambrose, Valentinian II, and the altar -- Of victory -- Ambrose, Theodosius, and the altar -- Of victory -- Eugenius and the altar of victory -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: the Christian church through the centuries; conflict and accommodation -- The apostolic church through the Edict of Theodosius in 391 c.e -- The church in late antiquity -- Medieval Christianity -- Reformation and counter-reformation -- The church in the modern world.
Subjects: Church history;
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MFA highlights : European painting and sculpture before 1800 / by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,publisher.(CARDINAL)141870; Baer, Ronni,1954-contributor.(CARDINAL)119554; Cambareri, Marietta,contributor.(CARDINAL)212931; Hanson, Katie(Associate curator),contributor.(CARDINAL)873149; Harris, Courtney Leigh,contributor.(CARDINAL)337745; Ilchman, Frederick,contributor.(CARDINAL)290850; Knaap, Anna C.,contributor.(CARDINAL)342321;
Includes bibliographical references (page 194) and index.The tremendous political, religious, and cultural changes that swept across Europe in the years from 1000 to 1800 fundamentally transformed the practices and purposes of painting and sculpture--from elaborately carved and gilded medieval Christian altars to Renaissance self-portraits touting the skill of the artist to eighteenth-century penetrating portraits in marble of the era's leading thinkers. The one hundred highlights from the impressive European art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gathered here offer an accessible introduction to the story of art from the medieval period to the Enlightenment. Modern notions of art and artists, the art market, as well as the births of art history and the art museum as an institution, all trace their origins to Europe in these centuries, which produced work of fascinating variety and enduring beauty.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art; Painting, European; Painting; Sculpture, European; Sculpture;
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The great tours: experiencing Medieval Europe [videorecording] / by Bartlett, Kenneth R.(CARDINAL)310362; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecturer: Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, University of Toronto.Travel through time to the golden ages of 12 of Europe's most beautiful medieval cities.DVD.
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Treasures of heaven : saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe / by Bagnoli, Martina.(CARDINAL)306692; British Museum.(CARDINAL)146015; Cleveland Museum of Art.(CARDINAL)137341; Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)(CARDINAL)215880;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Reliquaries, Medieval; Christian art and symbolism; Relics; Christian saints;
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The cloister [large print] / by Carroll, James,1943-author.(CARDINAL)338155;
After Father Michael Kavanagh sees a friend from his seminary days at the altar of his humble Inwood community parish, he wanders into the medieval haven of The Cloisters. In conversation with museum guide Rachel Vedette, he finds she retreated to the quiet of The Cloisters after her harrowing experience as a Jewish woman in France during the Holocaust. She shares with Kavanagh her late father's greatest intellectual work: a study demonstrating the relationship between the famously discredited monk Peter Abelard and Jewish scholars-- and the romance between Abelard and his intellectual equal Heeloiise.
Subjects: Large print books.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164; Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142; Catholic Church; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei; Cloisters (Museum); Holocaust survivors; Priests; Man-woman relationships;
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Siena and the Virgin : art and politics in a late medieval city state / by Norman, Diana,1948-(CARDINAL)208890;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.Civic rituals and images -- The Cathedral -- The town hall -- The patronal altars -- The spedale -- Massa Marittima -- San Leonardo al Largo -- Montalcino -- Montepulciano and Siena."Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious devotion and a focus of civic pride, fourteenth-century Sienese artists established within their city a vibrant pictorial tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century. Such celebratory images of the Virgin were also common in Siena's extensive subject territories, the contado. This illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese Marian art - how it was commissioned, created and understood by the Sienese. Examining political, economic and cultural relations between Siena and the contado, Diana Norman offers a new understanding of Marian art and its political function as an expression of Sienese civic ideology."--Jacket.
Subjects: Art.; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Art; Art patronage; Art, Gothic; Art, Italian;
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Staging the liturgy : the medieval altarpiece in the Iberian peninsula / by Kroesen, Justin,1975-(CARDINAL)864543;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-441) and index.The origin and development of the medieval retable in the Iberian peninsula -- The medieval choir in the Iberian peninsula: form and location -- Between the two choirs: the crossing as a crossroads of activity -- Consequences for the retable -- Iconography of the medieval retable in the Iberian peninsula -- The retable in its religious and historic context.Spain and Portugal possess a wealth of medieval churches, including many with original furnishings. Most outstanding of all is the altarpiece or 'retablo', the epitome of Iberian ecclesiastical art. With its exceptional dimensions, architectural structure and extensive imagery, it became clearly distinct from altarpieces elsewhere in Europe. The retable cannot be understood simply as an artistic genre, but must be viewed in its spatial surroundings and against its religious and socio-cultural background. In the present study, the medieval altarpiece in the Iberian Peninsula is approached as a witness to liturgy, faith and devotion. Part I sketches its morphological development from its origins around 1100 to the end of the Gothic age in the first half of the sixteenth century. Part II analyses the retable in its spatial context, formed by the architecture of the church building and other elements of the interior such as the choir. In Part III the retable is discussed as a means of communication, conveying a message between the patron who commissioned it and the recipients. Both as an art object and as a bearer of imagery, the altar retable played an important part in the staging of liturgy in the medieval church of the Iberian Peninsula. --! From publisher's description.
Subjects: Altarpieces; Altarpieces; Liturgy and art; Christian art and symbolism;
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Sienese altarpieces, 1215-1460 : form, content, function / by Os, H. W. van.(CARDINAL)132174;
Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 157-160; volume 2, pages 243-252) and indexes.Contents: v. 1. 1215-1344 / with a contribution by Kees van der Ploeg "On architectural and liturgical aspects of Siena cathedral in the Middle Ages" -- v. 2. 1215-1460 / with a contribution by Gale Aronow "A description of the altars in Siena cathedral in the 1420s".
Subjects: Altarpieces, Medieval; Altarpieces; Painting, Italian;
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