Medieval Sculpture
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An undergraduate dissertation examining hogback stones in relation to their wider context using place-names, topgraphy, vernacular poetry, Domesday Book and various narrative sources such as the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto. By these... more
La croce di Santa Maria Maggiore, di pietra aurisina, restaurata e ricomposta nei suoi frammenti da Giovanni Giannelli, direttore tecnico del Laboratorio di Restauro Ottorino Nonfarmale S.r.l., e collocata su una colonna di pietra gialla... more
El texto analiza en profundidad la portada del palacio de Mosén Sorell de Valencia, conservada actualmente en la sección de escultura española del Museo del Louvre. Además de este artículo, se recomienda consultar el monográfico sobre... more
Fondé sur une double approche iconographique et textuelle, ce livre situe pour la première fois les sirènes antiques et médiévales au sein d'une histoire globale. Cette mise en perspective qui inclut aussi une approche anthropologique,... more
Innledning til boka "Gustav Vigeland og Nidarosdomen. To nasjonale ikoner"
Resumo: A imagem da Santíssima Trindade proveniente da igreja de Santa Clara de Santarém, e hoje pertencente ao Museu Municipal da mesma cidade, é uma escultura de pedra, com vestígios de policromia que se encontra incompleta, faltando-se... more
This article describes two fragments of the alabaster virgin that presided over the centre altarpiece of the church of Saint Mary in Tamarite in 1504, having been commissioned by the legal representatives of the town of Tamarite and the... more
In Artistic Change at St-Denis: Abbot Suger's Program and the Early Twelfth-Century Controversy over Art (Princeton University Press, 1990), I apply the conclusions of my earlier study of the social theory of medieval art as presented in... more
The pietà from the church of St. Michael the Archangel in Domachowo, a former bishop’s village, has not been studied separately so far. It has been mentioned in two exhibition catalogues during reflections on the most important pietàs... more
Una riflessione, di carattere prevalentemente metodologico, sul lavoro di Max Seidel confluito nel recente volume "Padre e figlio. Nicola e Giovanni Pisano" (Venezia, Marsilio editore, 2012)
articolo divulgativo sulla Deposizione di Benedetto Antelami nella Cattedrale di Parma
The book was published in Prague in 1962. Annotation: The author completes this publication his long activities in the field of Czech Gothic sculpture. Traces the origins carvings, centered mainly in Moravia, circuit Parler smelter,... more
One of the great premises of medieval popular religion was the localization of the holy, the essential principle of the pilgrimage. At the same time, there was a widespread equation between excessive art and holiness. One result of... more
Of all the human endeavors of the more than one thousand years of Western medieval culture, no single aspect looms so large in the mind of modern man as that of medieval art. Yet despite the vast number of studies that have been... more
A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Blackwell Companions in Art History, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2019) (a collection of thirty-nine original essays from leading and upcoming scholars in the... more
Das Apostelkollegium als bildhauerisches Ensemble war in der mittelalterlichen Skulptur ein wichtiges Element von europaweit hohem Rang und einer langen Kathedraltradition. Ein Zyklus von Apostelfiguren, die an Pfeilern oder Wandflächen... more
Cette étude, unique, révèle enfin, l’histoire du plus célèbre sculpteur du XIIe siècle, le Maître de Cabestany, le créateur du tympan de l’église de Cabestany, au sud de Perpignan, et de nombreuses autres œuvres, aujourd’hui dispersées... more
Prefazione; Introduzione; Capitolo I. Il chiostro istoriato romanico; Capitolo II. 1. Il chiostro di Aosta. Struttura; 2. Rifacimenti; 3. Il colore: 4. Iconografia; 5. Il problema della datazione: Appendice - Note di epigrafia; Capitolo... more
The article is devoted to medieval and Early Modern animated sculpturesfrom the current and former territories of Poland. Sculptures of this kind, withthe construction of various degrees of complexity, quipped sometimes withmechanisms... more
Medieval Art class assignment focused on Arnolfo di Cambio.
Tesina su Arnolfo di Cambio svolta per il corso di Arte Medievale 2 del corso di Laura Magistrale in Storia dell' Arte e Archeologia dell'Università di Cagliari a.a. 2015-16.
Tesina su Arnolfo di Cambio svolta per il corso di Arte Medievale 2 del corso di Laura Magistrale in Storia dell' Arte e Archeologia dell'Università di Cagliari a.a. 2015-16.
The current conception of the art of the abbey of Cluny and of what is generally known as the Cluniac Order has been formed to an inordinate degree on the basis of one historical document, Bernard of Clairvaux’s Apologia ad Guillelmum.... more
Pre-Romanesque sculpture is characterized by interlacing composition at the church furniture. Among the motifs on interlaced sculpture, inside floral group appears motive of "swirling/vortex roses." There are different masonry performance... more
Early Christian and Medieval stone reliquaries in the Eastern Adriatic
Alabaster has many proverbial qualities, as evident in Shakespeare's 'smooth as monumental alabaster' (Othello, V, ii). Tomb monuments are a prominent feature in Kim Woods’ new monograph 'Cut in Alabaster' (2018) on the uses of this... more
The essential problem for the study of Bernard’s Apologia ad Guillelmum (1125), the most important document pertaining to the medieval attitude toward art, has been that scholars have felt it does not specifically name one monastery or... more