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The Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351181112
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Long Lives of Medieval Art and ArchitectureDDC classification:
  • 709.02
LOC classification:
  • N5970 .L664 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Color Plates -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Index.
Summary: Inspired by the literary category of biography and the methods of longue durée historians, the varied chapters of this volume provide an extended meditation on the longevity of medieval works.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Color Plates -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Index.

Inspired by the literary category of biography and the methods of longue durée historians, the varied chapters of this volume provide an extended meditation on the longevity of medieval works.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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