The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325: 23 - Rilegato

Lillich, Meredith Parsons

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520051866 ISBN 13: 9780520051867

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1994

Riassunto

This landmark study is the first to look closely at the stained glass produced between 1250 and 1325 in western France during the late Capetian era. Generously illustrated with a wealth of color and black-and-white images never before published including many from French churches now closed to the public, Lillich greatly expands our knowledge of both the art and the society from which it emerged.

The period Lillich chronicles begins with the region's new vitality following the knights' return from the crusades and ends with the onset of economic uncertainty and unrest that preceded the Hundred Years' War. She reveals that the stained glass of this 75-year span is forceful and uninhibited, dramatic and dazzling, characteristic of what we now term expressionism. Lillich tracks and identifies painters, glazing shops, working methods, models, and sources to argue that the stained glass is a major style with its own developmental evolution and character, putting to rest the notion that this art is merely transitional and provincial.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Meredith Parsons Lillich is Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Syracuse University in New York.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"Stimulates the reader to a fresh understanding of well-known monuments and also introduces a great deal of material unknown even to the specialist."Stephen Murray, Columbia University

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520051866
• ISBN 13: 9780520051867
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 440