Book Description
British Museum pattern books, fully researched anthologies of designs for use in arts and crafts.
Author : Eva Wilson
Publisher : British museum Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 9780714180564
British Museum pattern books, fully researched anthologies of designs for use in arts and crafts.
Author : Eva Wilson
Publisher : Dover
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486253404
This magnificent design treasury reproduces over 400 historic designs that embellish objects, manuscripts, monuments and buildings created in Britain from the 5th to the 14th centuries. Ranging from simple to sophisticated, the designs have been meticulously translated into highly decorative copyright-free line drawings by illustrator Eva Wilson. Artists and craftspeople will find this book a fertile source of design inspiration from a decorative-arts tradition of dazzling virtuosity, reflecting the rich intermingling of Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Viking and other early aesthetic influences. Drawn chiefly from artifacts in the collections of various British museums and libraries, the selection includes: A gold buckle from the royal burial site at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, Spiral scroll patterns from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Decorated letters from 7th-century manuscripts, Borders from the Book of Durrow, Designs from stone sculpture of the Viking Age, Embroidered designs from the Bayeux Tapestry, Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis, 13th- and 14th-century patterned floor tiles, ... and much more. This important, extensively researched sourcebook explores the historical background of the designs, and presents the patterns and motifs arranged thematically, demonstrating in detail how similar elements combine to produce a design as intricate as a decorated initial or as simple as a filled square or ornamental border. Here, then, is a comprehensive treasury of authentic, ready-to-use motifs that will lend medieval flair and flavor to almost any art or crafts project.
Author : Stephen T. Driscoll
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburg University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1108424449
Deconstructs the early history of Britain, illustrating a transformative era with wide-ranging sources and an accessible narrative.
Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1783270551
The origins of England's regional cultures are here shown to be strongly influenced by the natural environment and geographical features. The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interestedin the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of LandscapeHistory, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.
Author : Eva Wilson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 048625819X
Beautifully rendered from book illustrations, pottery, metalwork, carvings, and other sources, these 280 black-and-white designs include geometrics, florals, and animal and human figures in circular, hexagonal, rectangular, and other shapes.
Author : Lawrence Nees
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192842435
Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.
Author : Elizabeth S. Eames
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN :
Beschrijving, gebaseerd op objecten uit de collecties van het British Museum te Londen.
Author : Stephen Hart
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1843835339
While the terms used to describe the tracery of medieval church windows are familiar (Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular), there has been no really detailed attempt to examine it as a distinct, stylistic architectural form, a gap which this book seeks to address. Based upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving types and styles from churches throughout England, it traces the progression of ideas and the continuity of motifs and themes in tracery patterns from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, showing how different themes emerged within the main architectural styles; it also looks at the distinction between a window's architectural form and its tracery style, and describes the several different tracery techniques. The volume is completed with a detailed glossary. Stephen Hart is a retired architect, and the author of numerous works, including Flint Flushwork.
Author : Gregory Mirow
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486297910
Heraldic motifs, gargoyles, and floral patterns are among the offerings of this rich compendium of ornate designs from the Middle Ages. A diverse array of authentic sources-including brass rubbings, tapestry patterns, frescoes, and illuminated manuscripts-make this collection of 225 motifs a valuable archive for artists and craftspeople in need of royalty-free medieval illustrations.