Romanesque Sculpture An Ecstatic Art

Author : Susan Marcus
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460234979
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanesque Sculpture An Ecstatic Art written by Susan Marcus and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural sculpture, virtually abandoned for five hundred years following the demise of the Roman Empire, was revivified on the portals of Romanesque churches in eleventh and twelfth-century France and Spain. Long overdue is a reappraisal of those images whose aesthetic of rendering the invisible visible establish them as valuable witnesses to the culture of Europe in the Middle Ages. Countless losses, mutilation through wilful destruction, centuries of accumulated grime, and a dearth of studies in English have impeded the deserved realization and appreciation of these magnificent works of art. Through illustration and illuminative interpretation, Romanesque Sculpture An Ecstatic Art fills the void by tracing the beginnings, maturation, and efflorescence of monumental sculptured facades in the short-lived Romanesque era. Depictions on them are mirrors of the age: sophisticated theological messages, monastic life, the cult of relics, pilgrimages, crusades and politics. The survey considers too the sculptors, mostly anonymous, who in adapting models from several media - both antique and current - created a unique visual vocabulary. The beauty of the sculptures comes to the fore. The stones live!

Author : Thomas E. A. Dale
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085185
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion’s Power written by Thomas E. A. Dale and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatrous. In Pygmalion’s Power, Thomas E. A. Dale argues that the reintroduction of architectural sculpture after a hiatus of some seven hundred years arose with the particular goal of engaging the senses in a Christian religious experience. Since the term “Romanesque” was coined in the nineteenth century, the reintroduction of stone sculpture around the mid-eleventh century has been explained as a revivalist phenomenon, one predicated on the desire to claim the authority of ancient Rome. In this study, Dale proposes an alternative theory. Covering a broad range of sculpture types—including autonomous cult statuary in wood and metal, funerary sculpture, architectural sculpture, and portraiture—Dale shows how the revitalized art form was part of a broader shift in emphasis toward spiritual embodiment and affective piety during the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Adding fresh insight to scholarship on the Romanesque, Pygmalion’s Power borrows from trends in cultural anthropology to demonstrate the power and potential of these sculptures to produce emotional effects that made them an important sensory part of the religious culture of the era.

Author : Victoria Charles
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1783103256
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanesque Art written by Victoria Charles and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic style.

Author : A. Kingsley Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607244462
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Romanesque Sculpture written by A. Kingsley Porter and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Millard Fillmore Hearn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801493041
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanesque Sculpture written by Millard Fillmore Hearn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : V. I. Atroshenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Romanesque written by V. I. Atroshenko and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas E. A. Dale
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271083452
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion's Power written by Thomas E. A. Dale and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the distinctive formal and material qualities of a range of Romanesque sculpture types stimulated multisensory religious experiences. Emphasizes the power of these sculptures to "come alive" in ritual and produce emotional responses for Christians of the time.

Author : Anat Tcherikover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198174103
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Romanesque Sculpture in the Duchy of Aquitaine, C. 1090-1140 written by Anat Tcherikover and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anat Tcherikover unveils a chronological order in the remarkably diverse world of High Romanesque sculpture in central-western France. She traces a regional school which formed against the background of the powerful feudal principality of Aquitaine, and was itself commensurably important andtherefore representative of the main artistic trends of the time. These involved a constant tension between two different sculptural modes. On the one hand, architectural decorations in the spirit of the eleventh century manifested a final flowering of great intricacy. On the other, monumentalfigure sculpture was being revived independently at a fast pace, leading directly to proto-Gothic. A combination of political prominence, economic prosperity, and a keen response to ecclesiastical reform made the school one of the most innovative of its time.

Author : George Zarnecki
Publisher : Pindar Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Romanesque Sculpture written by George Zarnecki and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Zarnecki is the leading authority on English medieval sculpture. The present volume has assembled his major articles on Romanesque art published before 1979. These studies are primarily concerned with the changes that took place in English sculpture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and attempt to set developments in English art over this period within a European context. The volume also deals with Romanesque sculpture in France and Italy, together with metalwork and woodcarving in England, and includes a number of important iconographical studies. The author has up-dated his earlier studies to incorporate the results of subsequent research, and has augmented several studies with added bibliographical notes or references to more recent discoveries. Additional illustrations have been added where necessary, including photographs of a number of monuments which were previously unpublished.

Author : Meyer Schapiro
Publisher : George Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romanesque Sculpture of Moissac written by Meyer Schapiro and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: