Alabaster Tombs of the Pre-Reformation Period in England

Klappentext This is a rigorous 1940 study that will be of value to anyone interested in religious art and British history. Zusammenfassung First published in 1940! this was the first comprehensive book about British alabaster tombs. It provides a detailed account of the surviving alabaster monuments! from the earliest examples of around 1330 through to those created at the time of the Reformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. The alabaster men; 2. Tomb chests and weepers; 3. The effigies; 4. Classification of the effigies; Appendices; Plates; Index to text; Index to plates.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Gardner, Gardner Arthur
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521166201
• ISBN: 978-0-521-16620-1
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 255 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; England, RELIGION / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ART / European, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, Religion & beliefs, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Religion and beliefs, Memorials, monuments, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings