Ars sacra, 800-1200
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Ars sacra, 800-1200
（Yale University Press Pelican history of art）
Yale University Press, 1994
2nd ed
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"First edition published by Penguin Books Ltd, 1972"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical notes (p. [275]-305), select bibliography (p. 306-307), and index
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Description
The magnificent bronze doors of Hildesheim Cathedral, the ivory, gold, enameled, and bejeweled book covers made to contain superbly illuminated manuscripts, the startling reliquary caskets made in the shape of the part of the body supposed to be contained within them-these and other sacred objects were contained within church treasuries and cloisters in the early Middle Ages in Europe. This beautiful book traces the development of these so-called Minor Arts and the major role they played alongside the other pictorial arts and architectural sculpture of the period.
Although it is impossible to establish a strict chronology of this period, since styles evolved concurrently and with varying speed across diverse regions of Europe, Peter Lasko has established an object-based chronology that enables him to trace the developments of these styles. In addition, he describes the personalities, stylistic traits, and influence of some of the great craftsmen whose names are briefly recorded in cathedral treasury records. He surveys the sacred arts from Scandinavia to Spain and from Italy to England, examining the impact of English art on the court of Charlemagne and investigating external influences on English art both before and after the Norman Conquest. Lasko records the wide range of opinions on style and method and also explicates his own; his comprehensive survey of craftsmanship alters previous assumptions about chronologies, creates new groupings of materials, and reassesses stylistic sources.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Carolingian art: the 8th century
- the reign of Charlemagne
- the reign of Louis the Pious
- the reign of Lothar I
- the reign of Charles the Bald
- the late Carolingian period. Part 2 The art of the 10th and 11th centuries: the reign of Henry I
- the reign of Otto I
- the reigns of Otto II and Otto III
- the reign of Henry II
- the late Ottonnian period. Part 3 Romanesque art: introduction and Italy
- Spain and France
- Germany - Roger of Helmarhausen
- Lotharingia - Rainer of Huy
- Eilbertus of Cologne and the "sketchy" style
- Mosan art - the 12th century
- the empire - the 12th century
- France and Spain - the 12th century
- England and Scandinavia - the 12th century
- Nicolas of Verdun and the transitional style.
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