The Sacred image East and West

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Elizabeth L'Estrange

"This book brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. By focusing on images of St Anne and the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs, it reassesses the role of the female viewer as an active agent in the interpretation of pictures and popular devotional rites." "Holy Motherhood combines an innovative methodology that draws on art-historical and contemporary gender studies with empirical evidence from fifteenth-century manuscripts, to show how images worked, not only to script and maintain gender and social roles within patriarchal society, but also to offer viewers ways of managing those roles." "The book will appeal to advanced students, academics and researchers of Art History, Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval History and Gender Studies."--Jacket.

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Marie-Pierre Perdrizet

Europe, XIIIème et XIVème siècles, les grandes cathédrales gothiques sortent de terre. Reconstitution de cette aventure architecturale et humaine superbement illustrée.

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kommentiert von Rudolf Pörtner

Better known as the "Nuremberg Chronicle", it is a densely illustrated (over 1800 woodcuts)universal world history first published in Latin circa 1493.

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Theophilus

The work is divided into three books. The first covers the production and use of painting and drawing materials (painting techniques, paints, and ink), especially for illumination of texts and painting of walls. The second deals with the production of stained glass and techniques of glass painting, while the last deals with various techniques of goldsmithing and other metalwork. It also includes an introduction into the building of organs. Theophilus contains perhaps the earliest reference to oil paint.