Medieval Art

Name: Medieval Art
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780813341149
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By Marilyn Stokstad

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Medieval Art by Marilyn Stokstad offers a comprehensive journey through over a thousand years of Western art and architecture, from ancient Rome to the age of exploration. The book explores a wide geographical range including France, Denmark, Spain, and Turkey, presenting the monumental and minor arts within their social, religious, and political contexts. It guides the reader on how to appreciate medieval art, focusing on important aspects of architecture, sculpture, and painting, while addressing stylistic and iconographic themes with attention to both aesthetic and societal influences. The second edition is richly illustrated with over 4000 images and includes additional resources such as maps, a timeline, glossary, bibliography, and index.
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This book is ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of art history seeking a detailed yet accessible survey of medieval art. It suits readers interested in the cultural and historical background of Western art from the early to late Middle Ages.

This book teaches the reader how to look at medieval art - which aspects of architecture, sculpture, or painting are important and for what reasons. It includes the art and building of what is now Western Europe from the second to the fifteenth centuries.

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This beautifully produced survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture introduces the reader to a vast period of history ranging from ancient Rome to the age of exploration. The monumental arts and the diverse minor arts of the Middle Ages are presented here within the social, religious, and political frameworks of lands as varied as France and Denmark, Spain and Turkey.

Marilyn Stokstad also teaches her reader how to look at medieval art— which aspects of architecture, sculpture, or painting are important and for what reasons. Stylistic and iconographic issues and themes are thoroughly addressed with attention paid to aesthetic and social contexts.

Significantly updated, this second edition of Medieval Art spans the period from the second to the fifteenth centuries and includes over 4000 illustrations, over 100 in colour, detailed maps, a time-line, glossary, bibliography, and index— all in a larger 8 by 10 inch trim size.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780813341149

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 February 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Westview Press Inc

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 432

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Arts & Culture Marilyn Stokstad Non-Fiction

About the Author

Marilyn Stokstad is professor emerita of art history at the University of Kansas. She is the Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri and is the past-President of the International centre for Medieval Art and past-President of the College Art Association. She is the author of Art History, Art: A Brief History, Santiago de Compostela: In the Age of the Great Pilgrimages and a number of catalogues on medieval art, including Gardens of the Middle Ages.