Medieval Wall Paintings

Author : Roger Rosewell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747814562
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Wall Paintings written by Roger Rosewell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval wall paintings that remain in English churches are for the most part shadows of their former selves – the rare fragments of this beautiful art to have survived not only the Reformation but also successive waves of iconoclastic zeal and unsympathetic restoration. The whitewashed walls of most parish churches belie the riot of colour and decoration that once adorned them, but the remnants of paintings tucked into corners or rescued from later layers of paint help us to understand the role of art in medieval religion. Roger Rosewell here offers a guide to the role played by medieval wall paintings, as religious, didactic and commemorative works of art, telling the stories of those who created them and those who used them on a daily basis. He also compares and contrasts religious and domestic wall paintings, using beautiful colour photography throughout.

Author : Roger Rosewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843834847
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Wall Paintings in English & Welsh Churches written by Roger Rosewell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major illustrated study of this unique medieval art form for almost half a century, surveying the images and iconography that made the medieval church a riot of colour.

Author : Ernest William Tristram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Medieval Wall Painting written by Ernest William Tristram and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Howard
Publisher : Archetype Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigments of English Medieval Wall Painting written by Helen Howard and published by Archetype Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pigments of English Medieval Wall Painting, the author demonstrates that the techniques of wall painting in medieval England were far more complex than had previously been supposed. This is the first systematic analysis of the pigments employed in medieval wall paintings in northern Europe, covering an extensive selection of schemes from a variety of sites including parish churches, cathedrals and abbeys (Canterbury, Westminster, Norwich, Winchester, St Albans, Sherborne and Durham). The nature and extent of the palette used is revealed as well as the sophistication with which pigments were applied to achieve differing effects. Thirty pigments are detected including four previously unknown in the context of English medieval wall paintings - vivianite, salt green, kermes lake and madder lake. Also discovered are three alterations of pigments: the lightening of red lead; alteration of vivianite to a yellow form and the transformation of verdigris to a blue chloride-based alteration product. The use of different binding media employed for particular pigments in a single paint layer demonstrates the complex manner in which paintings were executed.The findings, discussed in the context of wall painting, sculptural polychromy and panel painting techniques in medieval northern Europe, show the broad chronological development in the choice, fabrication and application of materials linked to changes in artistic intent, technology and workshop practice. Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 colour plates, Pigments of English Medieval Wall Painting has significant implications for the conservation methods of such paintings and is an important source of information for all those interested in pigments and paintings.

Author : Dobrochna Zielinska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909492684
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Nubian Wall Paintings written by Dobrochna Zielinska and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which draws on more than 50 years of research experience in Nubia is the result of four years of collaboration between chemists, restorers and archaeologists from Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, France, and Sudan who conducted an extensive program of research based on investigations of samples of Nubian wall paintings from the Middle Nile Valley dating from the 6th to the 14th century AD which are now to be found in various places including the National Museum, Warsaw and the Sudan National Museum, Khartoum.

Author : Elizabeth S. Bolman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300092245
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastic Visions written by Elizabeth S. Bolman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.

Author : Clifford Davidson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319474766
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts written by Clifford Davidson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry; the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany; and meditation for “simple souls” in the Carthusian Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. Emphasis is on such aspects as memory, participative theology, devotional images, meditative practice, and techniques of constructing patterns of sacred imagery.

Author : Roger Rosewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Wall Paintings in English & Welsh Churches written by Roger Rosewell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the images and iconography that made the medieval church a riot of colour, this book brings together many of the best surviving examples of medieval church wall paintings. It uses new technologies to allow us to visualise these works as the artists first intended. Rosewell's text accompanies the images.

Author : Edward Clive Rouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Wall Paintings written by Edward Clive Rouse and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol McGrath
Publisher : Headline Accent
ISBN 13 : 1909520462
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handfasted Wife written by Carol McGrath and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Moving, and vastly informative, a real page turner of a historical novel' FAY WELDON The first instalment in Carol McGrath's captivating The Daughters of Hastings trilogy! 'This novel is a marvellous mixture of historical fact and imagination... I would heartily recommend this delightful novel. I couldn't put it down' 5* Reader review 'This is a beautifully crafted book which has been meticulously researched' 5* Reader review 'Fiction and history are woven together almost seamlessly' 5* Reader review 'I found it an engaging book and I wanted to keep reading' 5* Reader review 'A real page turner thanks to great characterisation' 5* Reader review _____________________________ An adventure story of love, loss, survival and reconciliation . . . The Handfasted Wife is the story of the Norman Conquest from the perspective of Edith (Elditha) Swanneck, Harold's common-law wife. She is set aside for a political marriage when Harold becomes king in 1066. Determined to protect her children's destinies and control her economic future, she is taken to William's camp when her estate is sacked on the eve of the Battle of Hastings. She later identifies Harold's body on the battlefield and her youngest son becomes a Norman hostage. Elditha avoids an arranged marriage with a Breton knight by which her son might or might not be given into his care. She makes her own choice and sets out through strife-torn England to seek help from her sons in Dublin. However, events again overtake her. Harold's mother, Gytha, holds up in her city of Exeter with other aristocratic women, including Elditha's eldest daughter. The girl is at risk, drawing Elditha back to Exeter and resistance. Initially supported by Exeter's burghers the women withstand William's siege. However, after three horrific weeks they negotiate exile and the removal of their treasure. Elditha takes sanctuary in a convent where eventually she is reunited with her hostage son. h3Love the novels of Carol McGrath? Don't miss THE SILKEN ROSE, starring one of the most fierce and courageous forgotten queens of England! AND COMING IN APRIL 2022: DISCOVER THE STONE ROSE: THE SUMPTUOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM CAROL McGRATH AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW!/H3