The walrus-ivory Cloisters Cross, a masterpiece of English Romanesque art, has long been a centerpiece of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters collection, a separate museum in Fort Tryon Park (New York City) devoted exclusively to the art of the Middle Ages. In fact, ever …
The walrus-ivory Cloisters Cross, a masterpiece of English Romanesque art, has long been a centerpiece of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters collection, a separate museum in Fort Tryon Park (New York City) devoted exclusively to the art of the Middle Ages. In fact, ever …
"This scholarly work fundamentally changes the way we think about the monastic church of Vezelay and its sculptures. He considers how these works intersect with various aspects of monastic culture, from poetry to a sign language used during observed periods of silence. From th…
"This scholarly work fundamentally changes the way we think about the monastic church of Vezelay and its sculptures. He considers how these works intersect with various aspects of monastic culture, from poetry to a sign language used during observed periods of silence. From th…
"Karl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts considered at that time to be masterpieces seem now to be fragmentary and full of contradictions? Morrison maintains that the answer…
The author documents photographically more than eighty Romanesque and Gothic vaults from medieval churches, cathedrals, and basilicas.
"Here, 'the Romanesque' is treated to a long overdue, theoretically-informed, archaeological inquiry. The ideological foundations and epistemological boundaries of Romanesque scholarship are critiqued, the constructs of 'Romanesque' and 'Europe' are deconstructed, and alternativ…