Una storia illustrata di riferimento dei monumenti delle chiese rurali: i tesori nazionali dimenticati di Inghilterra e Galles Nel profondo della campagna, lontano dalle abbazie metropolitane e dalle cattedrali, migliaia di monumenti funerari sono nascosti nelle chiese parrocchiali. Queste opere d'arte, ottoni medievali ed eleganti effigi in marmo, bauli funerari in pietra e grandi mausolei, hanno un grande significato storico e culturale, ma, a causa della loro relativa inaccessibilità, sono scomparse dai resoconti della nostra storia dell'arte. In oltre venticinque anni, CB Newham FSA ha visitato e fotografato più di ottomila chiese rurali, catalogando le sculture monumentali incontrate nella sua ricerca. In Country Church Monuments, presenta 365 delle migliori, ciascuna accompagnata da fotografie dettagliate, biografie sia dei defunti che dei loro scultori e una grande quantità di materiale contestuale. Molte di queste opere commemorano personaggi storici famosi, dall'intrigante cortigiano Tudor Richard Rich al primo ministro vittoriano William Ewart Gladstone. Ma più toccanti sono gli innumerevoli altri piccoli aristocratici, piccoli industriali, madri, padri e figli amatissimi che, se non fosse per i loro memoriali, sarebbero completamente persi nel tempo. Mentre Newham soffia via la polvere da queste opere d'arte e dà vita alle storie che raccontano, emerge una nuova storia estetica dell'Inghilterra e del Galles rurali. Country Church Monuments .È una toccante testimonianza dell'arte che creiamo ai confini della vita e della morte, del nostro incessante sforzo umano per l'eternità.
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C. B. Newham lives in Yorkshire, England. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, an information technology consultant, author of the popular Keyholder app and Director of the Parish Church Photographic Survey. So far, he has visited nearly nine thousand sites on his quest to create a complete photographic record of England's rural parish churches.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and WalesDeep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history.Over twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments, he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children - who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time.As Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless human striving for eternity. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR012569200
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Hardback. C. B. Newham, Penguin Books Ltd. A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history. Over twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed more than nine thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments, he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children - who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time. As Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless human striving for eternity. Hardback. Codice articolo 9780241488331-SECONDHAND
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