Romanesque Architectural Sculpture

Name: Romanesque Architectural Sculpture
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ISBN: 9780226750637

ISBN-10: 0226750639

ISBN-13: 9780226750637

Edition: 2006

Authors: Meyer Schapiro, Linda Seidel, Linda Seidel

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Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), renowned for his critical essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting, also played a decisive role as a young scholar in defining the style of art and architecture known as Romanesque. And, appropriately, when he was invited to deliver the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, he chose Romanesque architectural sculpture as his topic. These lectures, acclaimed for the verve and freshness with which Schapiro delivered them, languished unpublished for decades. But Linda Seidel, who knew Schapiro well and attended the 1967 lectures, has now expertly transcribed and edited them, presenting them for the first time to an audience beyond the halls…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



Introduction of Professor Schapiro




The Rebirth of Monumental Sculpture in the West: Disappearance and Rebirth



Field, Figure, and Frame (I)



Field, Figure, and Frame (II)



The Programs of Imagery (I): Themes of Action and Themes of State



The Programs of Imagery (II): Tradition, New Reality, and Nature



The Human Figure



Animal Imagery in Romanesque Sculpture


Professor Schapiro’s Published Writings on and Related Medieval Topics


Index