Ars Sacra, 800-1200

This book deals with the art of church treasuries and cloisters in the early middle ages in Europe - the work of goldsmiths, ivory carvers, bronze casters, enamellers and wood carvers. These so-called 'Minor Arts' played a major creative role alongside the other pictorial arts and architectural sculpture. The book traces the unbroken development of the Sacred Arts and their interrelationships throughout Europe from the Renovatio of the arts - the 'Rebirth of Antiquity' - encouraged under the Emperor Charlemagne in the late eighth century, until a renewed and fresh appreciation of the natural world - the Gothic - began to replace the powerful stylisations and the last vestiges of the classical tradition of the Romanesque in the early thirteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Lasko, Peter E. Lasko, Peter Lasko
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.1995
• EAN: 9780300060485
• ISBN: 978-0-300-06048-5
• No. of pages: 334
• Weight: 1706 g
• Illustrations: 275 b-w + 75 color illus.
• Series: The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series; The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / European, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval style, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art, ART / History / European / Medieval