Ars Sacra, 800-1200

Name: Ars Sacra, 800-1200
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ISBN: 9780140560367

ISBN-10: 014056036X

ISBN-13: 9780140560367

Edition: 1972

Authors: Peter Lasko

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This book deals with the art of church treasuries and cloisters in the early middle ages in Europe - the work of goldsmiths, ivory carvers, bronze casters, enamellers and wood carvers. These so-called 'Minor Arts' played a major creative role alongside the other pictorial arts and architectural sculpture. The book traces the unbroken development of the Sacred Arts and their interrelationships throughout Europe from the Renovatio of the arts - the 'Rebirth of Antiquity' - encouraged under the Emperor Charlemagne in the late eighth century, until a renewed and fresh appreciation of the natural world - the Gothic - began to replace the powerful stylisations and the last vestiges of the…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1972
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 4/30/1973
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Size: 20.00" wide x 20.00" long x 20.00" tall
Weight: 19.954
Language: English



Maps


Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Carolingian Art


The Eighth 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


The Art of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries


Anglo-Saxon Art


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 Ottonian Period


Romanesque Art


Introduction and Italy


England, Spain and France: The Eleventh Century


Germany: Roger of Helmarshausen


Lotharingia: Rainer of Huy


Eilbertus of Cologne and the 'Sketchy' Style


Mosan Art: The Twelfth Century


The Empire: The Twelfth Century


France and Spain: The Twelfth Century


England and Scandinavia: The Twelfth Century


Nicholas of Verdun and the Transitional Style


Conclusion


List of the Principal Abbreviations


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index


Photographic Acknowledgements