Early Medieval Art (Oxford History of Art)
by Lawrence Nees
from Oxford University Press, USA
In the first millennium, a rich and distinctive artistic tradition emerged in Europe. Early Medieval Art explores this tradition and tracks its development from c. 300 AD through c. 1000 AD, revealing forms of artistic expression ranging from brilliant illuminated manuscripts to decorative chairs, rich embroidery, and precious metalwork.
Nees explores issues of artist patronage, craftsmanship, holy men and women, monasteries, secular courts, and the expressive and educational roles of artistic creation. Instead of treating early Christian art in the late Roman tradition and the arts of the newly established kingdoms of northern Europe as opposites, he adopts a more holistic view, treating them as different aspects of a larger historical situation. This approach reveals the onset of an exciting new visual relationship between the church and the populace throughout medieval Europe. Moreover, it restores a previously marginalized subject to a central status in our artistic and cultural heritage.
Snyder's Medieval Art
by Henry Luttikhuizen
from Prentice Hall
Describes the times in which the art was created as well as the issues of patronage, function, and ultimately, the public’s reception of the art as it was produced. Providing a magnificent overview of medieval painting, sculpture, and architecture–in Italy, Byzantium, Germany, and France from the 4th to the 14th centuries–including Early Christian, Byzantine, Pre-Romanesque Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic art.
Gothic: Architecture - Sculpture - Painting
from h. f. ullmann
These substantial volumes on art periods vividly portray the most important achievements from the areas of European architecture, sculpture, and painting. The impressive photographs of works from all visual arts movements are at the center of these richly illustrated volumes. The books successfully provide an overview of the artistic diversity of the individual periods, and they couldn't have been written and illustrated any more clearly. The informative and interesting texts have been written by renowned authors from the fields of history, architecture and art history, providing a multifaceted view of each period. These books are a real pleasure for anyone with an interest in art.
Medieval Art
by Marilyn Stokstad
from Westview Press
The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin
by Bernard Meehan
from Thames & Hudson
Word and Image: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art
by William J. Diebold
from Westview Press
Early Christian & Byzantine Art: A&I (Art and Ideas)
by John Lowden
from Phaidon Press
Byzantine Art (Oxford History of Art)
by Robin Cormack
from Oxford University Press, USA
Mostly religious in function, but preserving the classicism of Greco-Roman art, Byzantine buildings and art objects communicate the purity and certainties of the public face of early Christian art. Focusing on the art of Constantinople between 330 and 1453, this book probes the underlying motives and attitudes of the society which produced such rich and delicate art forms. It examines the stages this art went through as the city progressed from being the Christian center of the Eastern Roman Empire, to its crisis during attack from the new religion of Islam, to its revived medieval splendor and then, after the Latin capture of 1204 and the Byzantine reoccupation after 1261, to its arrival at a period of cultural reconciliation with East and West.
Early Medieval Art 300-1150: Sources and Documents (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)
by Caecilia Davis-Weyer
from University of Toronto Press
Originally published by Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Gothic Art: Glorious Visions (Perspectives) (Trade Version)
by Michael Camille
from Prentice Hall
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