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Title: Insights and Interpretations
Condition: New
Subtitle: Studies in Celebration of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art
ISBN-10: 0691099901
EAN: 9780691099903
ISBN: 9780691099903
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 11/08/2002
Description: Established in 1917, the Index of Christian Art, located at Princeton University, is now the largest archive of medieval art in existence and the most specialized resource for the iconographer. Throughout its eighty-five years, it has justly been recognized as one of the most learned institutions for the study of the art and culture of the medieval world. The essays in this book, all by staff or scholars of the archive, highlight some of the current research in the archive and the scholarship for which it has been widely renowned. The studies cover art from the Late Antique period to the end of the fifteenth century and include most of the media represented in the archive, from manuscripts to sculpture to glass. From reinterpreting previous scholarship to making new insights into the medieval mind, they explore such themes as Jephtha's Daughter; Mary Magdalene; Saints Blaise, Paul, Joseph, and Elisabeth of Hungary; and topics including women in the Bibles moralisees, Late German sermons, the iconographic program at Bourges Cathedral, Franciscan devotional art, and a late medieval Islamic manuscript.This volume presents some of the most exciting and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of these subjects, from the home of medieval iconography in Princeton. The contributors are Adelaide Bennett, Lois Drewer, Ivan Great, Judith Golden, Gerald Guest, Margaret Jennings, Margaret Lindsey, Mika Natif, Lynn Ransom, Pamela Sheingorn, and A. E. Wright.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 279mm
Item Length: 216mm
Item Weight: 1247g
Contributor: Colum Hourihane (Edited by)
Author: Colum Hourihane
Genre: Arts & Photography
Book Series: Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Year: 2002

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