Karl Kinsella

God's Own Language

Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A historical account of Richard of St Victor's 12th-century book, In visionem Ezechielis, and its positioning as the first-ever treatise on architectural drawing"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 166mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9780262047746
• ISBN-10: 0262047748
• Artikelnr.: 67514337

Autorenporträt

Karl Kinsella is a lecturer in art history at the University of Aberdeen, having previously held positions at the universities of York and Oxford. A specialist in medieval architectural history and manuscripts, he received the Hawksmoor Essay Medal in 2013 for his work on architectural drawing.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Noah's Ark in Twelfth-Century Paris 1
2 Richard and the Abbey of Saint Victor 31
3 The First Plans 45
4 The Gatehouse 69
5 The Slope of Ezekiel's Mountain and the Language of Architecture 107
6 The Temple Precinct 139
7 The Map of the Promised Land and Jewish Exegesis 167
Afterword 183
Acknowledgments 189
Manuscripts 191
Notes 193
Bibliography 211
Index 225