Beatrice E Kitzinger

The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, arguing that people used images to assert the value of artworks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 226mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428811
• ISBN-10: 1108428819
• Artikelnr.: 52525454

Autorenporträt

Beatrice E. Kitzinger is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, New Jersey. Her scholarly work has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Stanford University, where she was an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Cross and the Work of Art: Introduction: temporality, utilitas, and the signum crucis
1. Making the multitemporal cross
Part II. The Cross and the Gospels: 2. Otfrid of Weissenburg's Book of the Gospels
3. Cross-image and Gospel Book
4. The angers gospels: sign and story
Conclusion: the fact of manufacture.