Negotiating secular and sacred in medieval art : Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist / edited by Alicia Walker and Amanda Luyster

Object Details

Author

Walker, Alicia

Luyster, Amanda

Contents

Introduction. Mapping the heavens and treading the earth: negotiating sacred and secular in medieval art / Alicia Walker and Amanda Luyster -- Chivalric narratives and devotional experience in the Taymouth Hours / Kathryn A. Smith -- Merging heavenly court and earthly Council in Trecento Venice / Carolina A. Wamsler -- Divine images and earthly authority at the Chora Parekklesion in Constantinople / Galina Tirnani -- Classical constellations in Carolingian codices: investigating the celestial imagery of Madrid, Biblioteca nacional, MS 3307 / Eric Ramírez Weaver -- Spaces of convergence: Christian monasteries and Umayyad architecture in greater Syria / Lara Tohme -- Challenging the sacred landscape of Byzantine Cappadocia / Veronica Kalas -- Pilgrimage for pleasure: time and space in late medieval Japanese painting / Samuel Crowell Morse

2009

C2009

To 1500

Type

Books

Physical description

xvii, 219 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Art, Medieval--Themes, motives

Holy, The, in art

Polarity in art

Art and society--History

Record ID

siris_sil_924469

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0