Alabaster Tombs
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
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ISBN : 9781001288215
Author :
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9781001288215
Author : Arthur Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521166209
First published in 1940, this was the first comprehensive book about British alabaster tombs. It provides a detailed account of the surviving alabaster monuments, from the earliest examples of around 1330 through to those created at the time of the Reformation.
Author : Kim Woods
Publisher : Distinguished Contributions to
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781909400269
While marble is associated with Renaissance Italy, alabaster was the material commonly used elsewhere in Europe and has its own properties, traditions and meanings. It enjoyed particular popularity as a sculptural material during the two centuries 1330-1530, when alabaster sculpture was produced both for indigenous consumption and for export. Focussing especially on England, the Burgundian Netherlands and Spain, three territories closely linked through trade routes, diplomacy and cultural exchange, this book explores and compares the material practice and visual culture of alabaster sculpture in late medieval Europe. Cut in Alabaster charts sculpture from quarry to contexts of use, exploring practitioners, markets and functions as well as issues of consumption, display and material meanings. It provides detailed examination of tombs, altarpieces and both elite and popular sculpture, ranging from high status bespoke commissions to small, low-cost carvings produced commercially for a more popular clientele.
Author : William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1108066135
This fully illustrated excavation report on the early Egyptian royal tombs at Abydos was first published in 1900.
Author : William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Abydos (Egypt : Extinct city).
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Author : Julian M. Luxford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040289649
Chantries were religious institutions endowed with land, goods and money. At their heart was the performance of a daily mass for the spiritual benefit of their founders, and the souls of all faithful dead. To Church reformers, they exemplified some of medieval Catholicism’s most egregious errors; but to the orthodox they offered opportunities to influence what occurred in an unknowable afterlife. The eleven essays presented here lead the reader through the earliest manifestations of the chantry, the origins and development of ‘stone-cage’ chapels, royal patronage of commemorative art and architecture, the chantry in the late medieval parish, the provision of music and textiles, and a series of specific chantries created for William of Wykeham, Edmund Audley, Thomas Spring and Abbot Islip, to the eventual history and the cultural consequences of their suppression in the mid-16th century.
Author : Raluca Radulescu
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719068256
Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.
Author : Chris Naunton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0500774528
An exciting archeological exploration of ancient Egypt that examines the potential for discovering the remaining “lost” tombs of the pharaohs. Tombs, mummies, and funerary items make up a significant portion of the archeological remains that survive ancient Egypt and have come to define the popular perception of Egyptology. Despite the many sensational discoveries in the last century, such as the tomb of Tutankhamun, the tombs of some of the most famous individuals in the ancient world—Imhotep, Nefertiti, Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra—have not yet been found. Archeologist Chris Naunton examines the famous pharaohs, their achievements, the bling they might have been buried with, the circumstances in which they were buried, and why those circumstances may have prevented archeologists from finding these tombs. In Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt, Naunton sheds light on the lives of these ancient Egyptians and makes an exciting case for the potential discovery of these lost tombs.
Author : Jessica Barker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783272716
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side: demonstrating, as in the words of Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb, their "stone fidelity". This is the first book to address the phenomenon of the "double tomb", drawing the rich history of tomb sculpture into dialogue with discourses of power, marriage, gender and emotion, and placing them in the context of ecclesastical material culture of the time more broadly. It offers new interpretations of some of the most famous medieval monuments, such as those found in Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, as well as drawing attention to a host of lesser-known memorials from throughout Europe. In turn, these monuments provide a vantage point from which to reconsider the culture of medieval marriage, from wedding rings and dresses, to the sacramental symbolism of matrimony, and embodied ritual practices. Whilst it is tempting to read these sculptures as straightforward expressions of romantic feeling, the author argues that a closer look reveals the artifice behind the emotion: the artistic, religious, political and legal agenda underlying the rhetoric of married love.
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Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :