Re-thinking Renaissance Objects
Re-thinking Renaissance Objects

Author: Peta Motture

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-07

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1444396765

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Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture. Puts forward original research, including evidence provided by an in-depth study arising from the Medieval & Renaissance Gallery project Contributions are unusual in their combination of a variety of approaches, but with each paper starting with an examination of the objects themselves New theories emerge from several papers, some of which challenge current thinking

Glass
Glass

Author: Dwight P. Lanmon

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0870996789

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This volume in a series of sixteen that features the more than two thousand works of art in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on the art of glass. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Mirror of the Medieval World
Mirror of the Medieval World

Author: Barbara Drake Boehm

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0870997858

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The publication of this comprehensive catalogue celebrates the distinguished career of William D. Wixom at the Metropolitan. Highlighted in these pages are more than three hundred purchases and gifts, the great majority of which have been on view but many of which have remained unpublished until now. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Uncovering the Germanic Past
Uncovering the Germanic Past

Author: Bonnie Effros

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 0199696713

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This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.