The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
10 best books like The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century (Émile Mâle): Art in Renaissance Italy: 1350-1500, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, The Golden Legend, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time, Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust: A Life, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, The Evolution of Medieval Thought
Art in Renaissance Italy: 1350-1500
The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of Western culture during which artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo created some of the world's most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. Here, Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture...
| Author | Henry Adams |
| ISBN | 0140390545 |
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments...
| Author | Jacobus de Voragine |
| ISBN | 0140446486 |
One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core Christian stories, Jacobus de Voragine (c....
This is a book for someone who sees Hercules and the Lion and thinks "look at how the artist is evoking the body's movement with the movement in the cloak" and not "I like the gold pubes!"
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"The drift of all popular art is towards the lowest common denominator, and, on the whole,...
| Author | Eric Karpeles |
| ISBN | 0500238545 |
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Not only are there frequent references to specific works of art, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings. Bloch’s appearance as a boy is likened to...
| Author | Roger Shattuck |
| ISBN | 0393321800 |
For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently...
| Author | Jean-Yves Tadié |
| ISBN | 0141002034 |
Marcel Proust was arguably the greatest writer of the twentieth century. This fascinating, definitive biography by the premier world authority on Proust redefines the way we look at both the artist and the man. A bestseller in France, where it was originally published to great critical acclaim, Jean-Yves...
| Author | Helen Waddell |
| ISBN | 0486414361 |
This is that strangeness, without which beauty is not made perfect.
This is the wonky cousin of The White Goddess from Robert Graves. Rampant rolls of verse citation seep and suggest all the anxious influence of the ancients, particularly the Irish, who survived the initial pillage from the...
| Author | Arthur O. Lovejoy |
| ISBN | 0674361539 |
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy...
| Author | David Knowles |
| ISBN | 0582494265 |
A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected.
Preface to First Edition
Preface...
| Author | Margot Wittkower |
| ISBN | 1590172132 |
A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution."
Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf...
Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral
| Author | Philip Ball |
| ISBN | 0061154296 |
Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? And why, during this period, did Europeans begin to build churches in a new style, at such...
The Plantagenet Chronicles
| Author | Elizabeth Hallam |
| ISBN | 1555840183 |
From the Introduction: The foundations of Plantagenet success were laid by a line of obscure castellans in the Loire Valley who, in the tenth century, rose to become counts of Anjou.
Opening: Part1: ORIGINS OF THE ANGEVIN DYNASTY: The fortunes of the house of Anjou were founded on the prowess...
| Author | Ernst Robert Curtius |
| ISBN | 0691018995 |
In this "magnificant book" (T.S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe, with particular emphasis on the Latin Middle Ages. In an extensive new epilogue, drawing on hitherto...
| Author | Ernst H. Kantorowicz |
| ISBN | 0691017042 |
In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies" - the body politic and the body natural -...
| Author | Erwin Panofsky |
| ISBN | 0064300250 |
Gran bel saggio, grande classico degli studi sull'iconologia (e della storia dell'arte in genere).Dopo una ricca introduzione dove Panofsky spiega la genesi dell'opera e il suo metodo di lavoro, si passa a una serie di saggi dedicati, nell'ordine, dine, a:
- Preistoria umana in due cicli...
| Author | Linda Nochlin |
| ISBN | 0140132228 |
Linda Nochlin is intelligent. She probably knows more about Art than 99.9999999% of those on the planet, and she certainly knows more about Art than I ever will. She shared so many insights, brought out so many facets of the many works she described in her book Realism that I was amazed and bored. My bad,...
Arab Historians of the Crusades
| Author | Francesco Gabrieli |
| ISBN | 0520052242 |
The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of the Acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happening were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. For the first time contemporary accounts of the fighting between Muslim and...
| Author | Lorraine Daston |
| ISBN | 0942299914 |
A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world.
Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder,...
The Social History of Art: Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
| Author | Arnold Hauser |
| ISBN | 0415045789 |
Marcel Duchamp said that all works of art die within about 50 years of their production... essentially because the world has moved on and they cease to be contemporaneous. They become fossils. I remember hearing a famous art historian talking about Della Francesca's "Baptism of Christ" (that fabulous...
| Author | Donald Preziosi |
| ISBN | 0192842420 |
The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists...
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
| Author | Michael Camille |
| ISBN | 0948462280 |
What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that...
| Author | Patricia Hampl |
| ISBN | 0151015066 |
Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the nuns of Hampl’s girlhood, free and untouchable,...
