The long lives of medieval art and architecture

The long lives of medieval art and architecture / edited by Jennifer M. Feltman and Sarah Thompson.

"Traditional histories of medieval art and architecture often privilege the moment of a work's creation, yet surviving works designated as 'medieval' have long and expansive lives. Many have extended prehistories emerging from their sites and contexts of creation, and most have u...

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Other Authors: Feltman, Jennifer M. (Editor), Thompson, Sarah, 1974- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2019].
Series:AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Art, Medieval.
Architecture, Medieval.
Art and society > Europe > History.
Architecture and society > Europe > History.
ART > History > General.
HISTORY > General.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Medieval
Art and society
Art, Medieval
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Why the Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture? An Introduction
  • PART I ESSENCE AND CONTINUITY. 1. How Long Are the Lives of Medieval Buildings? Framing Spatio-temporalities in the Study of the Built World
  • 2. Lost in Translation: Destroyed Sculpture, Invented Images, and the Long Life of the Virgin of Le Puy
  • 3. Flying Pigs, Fiery Whirlwinds, and a 300-Year-Old Virgin: Costume and Continuity in a Sacred Performance
  • PART II TRANSFORMATION. 4. San Quirce de Burgos: One Medieval Transformation in the Life of a Romanesque Church
  • 5. Recycling Santa Tecla: The Demolition and Continued Life of an Early Christian Basilica
  • 6. Picturing the Long Life of Notre-Dame de Louviers
  • 7. Reuse, Recycle? The Long Life of an Unfinished French Book of Hours
  • PART III NARRATION. 8. Resurrecting the Medieval Altar: Iberian Virgins in the Gothic Castilian Imagination and in Contemporary Museum Contexts
  • 9. The Portal from Coulangé: A Peripatetic Journey
  • 10. Ownership, Censorship, and Digital Repatriation: Excavating Layers of History in the Carrow Psalter
  • PART IV MEMORY AND OBLIVION. 11. Restoration, Revival, Remembrance: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of the Lorenzetti Chapter House Frescoes from San Francesco, Siena
  • 12. The Victory Cross Redux: Ritual, Memory, and Politics in the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War; 13 The Magdeburg Rider on Display in Modern Germany; PART V RESTORATION; 14 The Salvage of the Benevento Bronze Doors After World War II; 15 Preservation, Restoration, and the Tomb of the "Founder" at Salisbury
  • 16. Understanding the Restoration at Chartres
  • 17. The Power of Absence: The Missing North Tower of Saint-Denis.

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