Romanesque Sculpture in Maastricht
Romanesque Sculpture in Maastricht

Author: E. den Hartog

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13:

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An inventory of the romanesque sculpture in the Bonnefanten Museum, the Saint Servatius Church, and Our Lady's Church in Maastricht, especially Romanesque capitals.

Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century
Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century

Author: Colum Hourihane

Publisher: Index of Christian Art Department of Art and Archeology Princeton

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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A collection of essays examining Romanesque art and thought in the twelfth century. Issues of reception, innovation, nationalism, iconography, technology, dating, and geographic coverage are explored, as well as larger issues relating to Gothic and medieval art history.

Romanesque Architectural Sculpture
Romanesque Architectural Sculpture

Author: Meyer Schapiro

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2006-11-15

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0226750639

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Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), renowned for his critical essays on 19th and 20th century painting, also played a decisive role as a young scholar in defining the style of art and architecture known as Romanesque. This is a transcribed and edited version of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.

A Paradise of Priests
A Paradise of Priests

Author: Catherine Saucier

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1580464807

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Embraces an all-encompassing interdisciplinary methodology to uncover the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals in music, rituals, and hagiographic writing celebrating the origins and identity of a major clerical center. Medieval Liège was the seat of a vast diocese in northwestern Europe and a city of an exceptional number of churches, clergymen, and church musicians. Recognized as a priestly paradise, the city accommodated as many Masses each day as Rome. In this volume, musicologist Catherine Saucier examines the music of religious worship in Liège and reveals within the liturgy and ritual a civic function by which local clerics promoted the holy status of their city. Analyzing hagiographic and historical writings, religious art, and sung ceremonies relevant to the city's genesis, destruction, and eventual rebirth, Saucier uncovers richly varied ways in which liégeois clergymen fused music with text, image, and ritual to celebrate the city's sacred episcopal origins and saintly persona. A Paradise of Priests forges new interdisciplinary connections between musicology, the liturgical arts, the cult of saints, church history, and urban studies, and is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in the history of the Low Countries, hagiography and its reception, and ecclesiastical institutions. CatherineSaucier is assistant professor of music history at Arizona State University.

Romanesque Tomb Effigies
Romanesque Tomb Effigies

Author: Shirin Fozi

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-03-12

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0271089156

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Framed by evocative inscriptions, tumultuous historical events, and the ambiguities of Christian death, Romanesque tomb effigies were the first large-scale figural monuments for the departed in European art. In this book, Shirin Fozi explores these provocative markers of life and death, establishing early tomb figures as a coherent genre that hinged upon histories of failure and frustrated ambition. In sharp contrast to later recumbent funerary figures, none of the known European tomb effigies made before circa 1180 were commissioned by the people they represented, and all of the identifiable examples of these tombs were dedicated to individuals whose legacies were fraught rather than triumphant. Fozi draws on this evidence to argue that Romanesque effigies were created to address social rather than individual anxieties: they compensated for defeat by converting local losses into an expectation of eternal victory, comforting the embarrassed heirs of those whose histories were marked by misfortune and offering compensation for the disappointments of the world. Featuring numerous examples and engaging the visual, historical, and theological contexts that inform them, this groundbreaking work adds a fresh dimension to the study of monumental sculpture and the idea of the individual in the northern European Middle Ages. It will appeal to scholars of art history and medieval studies.

Romanesque Art
Romanesque Art

Author: Victoria Charles

Publisher: Parkstone International

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1783103256

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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.