The essays in this book focus on various social, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings ascribed to Gothic cathedrals in Europe in the post-medieval period. Central to many medieval ritual traditions both sacred and secular, the Gothic cathedral holds a privileged place wit…
"What informed and inspired the visual artists who depicted the Trojan War on vases, on walls, and in sculpture? Scholars have debated this question for years. Were Greek painters simply depicting the stories of Achilles and Odysseus as recounted in Homer's epics? Or did they wo…
Back in print, Overlay is Lucy Lippard’s classic book on contemporary art and its connection to prehistoric sites and symbols. Viewed by critics, artists, art historians, and students as the essential text on how prehistoric images have been “overlayed” onto contemporary art by …
"Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which…
In the name of the image: figurative representation in Islamic and Christia…
by Langer, Axel, Karimi, Ahmad Milad, Schurte, René, Erismann, Christophe, Museum Rietberg (Zürich), Flood, Finbarr Barry, Gruber, Christiane, Spanke, Daniel, Heinzelmann, Tobias, Fricke, Beate, Blume, Dieter, Majer, Hans Georg, Weis, Friederike, Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
Bu çalışmada Şia’daki imamet ve mehdeviyyet meselesi Zerdüştîlikte yer alan Ferre-i İzedî ve Saoşyant inancı ile mukayeseli bir şekilde ele alınıp, benzer yönleri tespit edilerek birbirinden etkilenme ihtimali tartışılmıştır. Zerdüştîlikte ferre ve Saoşyant kavramı Avestâ gibi o…
The history of conventional Western musical notation (CWN) is littered with proposals for ways to either radically improve or replace its longstanding system of staff-based notation. Yet, despite wide consensus that CWN is flawed, none of these alternative systems have caught on…
Trying to figure out where and when a medieval manuscript was made is one of the most contentious topics in book scholarship. Instead of limiting scholarship to textual contents, new work looks at manuscripts, including bestiaries, with a multifaceted and interdisciplinary appro…
Iconography is an important tool in understanding the past because it may express a people’s understanding of the world through representations of stories or figures, including human beings. The continental early Iron Age Celts left behind no written sources but did leave iconog…
Inspired by Italian, religious images from the 15th and 16th centuries of the Coronation of the Virgin, this thesis will attempt to dissect the numerous depictions of crowns amongst the perspectives of formal analysis, iconography, and theology in order to deduce how this piece …