Reading medieval images : the art historian and the object / edited by Elizabeth Sears and Thelma K. Thomas.

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Other Authors: Sears, Elizabeth, 1952-, Thomas, Thelma K., Forsyth, Ilene H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Ann Arbor, MI] : University of Michigan Press, c2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dedication : Ilene H. Forsyth ; "Reading" images / Elizabeth Sears
  • Understanding objects / Thelma K. Thomas
  • Apse mosaic of Santa Maria in Trastevere / Dale Kinney
  • Exemplum of humility : the crucifixion image in the Drogo Sacramentary / Celia Chazelle
  • Medium matters : reading the remains of a late antique textile / Thelma K. Thomas
  • "Portrait" of Muhammad in the Toledan Collection / Walter B. Cahn
  • Portraits in counterpoint : Jerome and Jeremiah in an Augsburg manuscript / Elizabeth Sears
  • "Seeing and lecturing" : disputation in a twelfth-century tympanum from Reims / Michael Camille
  • Late Gothic architectural drawing at The Cloisters / Linda Neagley
  • Canonical views : the Theophilus story and the choir reliefs at Notre-Dame, Paris / Michael T. Davis
  • About a bronze bird / Oleg Grabar
  • Image of the "jugglers" in the Beatus of Silos / O.K. Werckmeister
  • "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened" : a lintel from San Cassiano a Settimo / Dorothy F. Glass
  • Alcaudete sarcophagus / Lois Drewer
  • Eve's reach : a note on dramatic elements in the Hildesheim doors / Harvey Stahl
  • Gift of the cross in the New Minster Liber vitae / Elizabeth C. Parker
  • Valerie's gift : a narrative enamel chasse from Limoges / Cynthia Hahn
  • Road to glory : new early images of Thomas Becket's life / Charles T. Little
  • "Virgin veiled by God" : the presentation of an icon on Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr
  • Stoning of St. Stephen in an altarpiece by Mariotto di Nardo : again the cast shadow / Marvin Eisenberg.