Download or read book Cut in Alabaster written by Kim Woods and published by Distinguished Contributions to. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While marble is associated with Renaissance Italy, alabaster was the material commonly used elsewhere in Europe and has its own properties, traditions and meanings. It enjoyed particular popularity as a sculptural material during the two centuries 1330-1530, when alabaster sculpture was produced both for indigenous consumption and for export. Focussing especially on England, the Burgundian Netherlands and Spain, three territories closely linked through trade routes, diplomacy and cultural exchange, this book explores and compares the material practice and visual culture of alabaster sculpture in late medieval Europe. Cut in Alabaster charts sculpture from quarry to contexts of use, exploring practitioners, markets and functions as well as issues of consumption, display and material meanings. It provides detailed examination of tombs, altarpieces and both elite and popular sculpture, ranging from high status bespoke commissions to small, low-cost carvings produced commercially for a more popular clientele.
Download or read book Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England written by Jessica Caroline Brantley and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into dialogue with twenty-first-century scholarship on pre-modern visual culture. Devotional alabaster images, too often thought of as "folk art" and narrowly English, were avidly collected and appreciated throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages, and this collection of essays seeks to help integrate them into the current discourse on materiality, the role of seriality in the changing modes of artistic production of the late Middle Ages, and the broad debate about whether it is useful to draw distinctions between elite/high and folk/low culture.
Download or read book Moving Sculptures written by Aleksandra Lipińska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Low Countries are generally considered to be the land of painting. Consequently, sculpture, especially that of the 16th century, has been insufficiently explored. In Moving Sculptures Aleksandra Lipińska presents a little-known chapter of the history of Netherlandish sculpture: the serial production of small-scale alabaster reliefs, altarpieces and statuettes in the workshops of Mechelen and Antwerp between c. 1525 and 1650. She gives the reader an insight into the rules of this craft, the specificity of the material, and the marketing methods employed. But the innovative element of this study lies in the fact that Lipińska analyses the phenomenon from the perspective of its distant recipients in Central and Northern Europe on the basis of works largely unknown to the broader public. For sample pages click on Google Books button.
Download or read book Alabaster Sculpture in Europe 1300 1650 written by Marjan Debaene and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabaster was a popular material in European sculpture, especially from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Its relative availability and easy to sculpt characteristic made it a highly suitable material for both large monuments and small objects, for mass production and individual works, from England to Spain and France to the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. This material has been the subject of multidisciplinary research in various European countries for several decades. The research combines material analyses with historical and art-historical approaches. This publication, made for the occasion of the large exhibition on the theme at M Leuven opening on October 14th, brings together all renown specialists on the material and sheds light on the many facets of alabaster, such as its physical and chemical properties as well as its translucency, its whiteness, its softness, and its beautiful sheen, all of which made it a popular material used in different types of sculpture from the middle ages to the baroque, all throughout Europe, ranging from bespoke tombs, funerary monuments and commissioned sculptures and altarpieces to commercially interesting formulas such as English or Mechelen alabaster reliefs.
Download or read book Object of Devotion written by Paul Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla. and five other institutions between Dec. 2, 2010 and Aug. 12, 2012.
Download or read book The Mourners written by Sophie Jugie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dukes of Burgundy (1363/1477): the political and artistic adventure of a noble dynasty in the late Middle Ages -- The Chartreuse de Champmol -- The tombs of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless -- The mourners -- Mourners from the tomb of John the Fearless -- From charterhouse to museum -- The Salle des gardes: Burgundy & apos;s locus memoriae -- Conclusion -- Selected readings on the Chartreuse de Champmol, the tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy, and the mourners
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Sculpting Alabaster written by Stuart Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Guide to Sculpting Alabaster was written to provide an illustrated how-to book for all levels of stone sculptors, from beginners to experienced carvers. The book follows a logical process of sculpting alabaster from the initial selection of stone through to conceptual design, the use of both hand and electric tools, and finally examples of finishing methods.Beyond the sculpting of the stone, the manual demonstrates how to include mixed-media design, expanding the artist's use of harmonious materials to embolden their creativity.Also, included in detail, is the process of naming, pricing and promotion of an artist's finished work, including art show research, booth design and social media marketing.The book concludes, in illustrated detail, with three projects taken from the selection of the stone to the finished sculpture piece. Each stage of the carving process is illustrated with photos, as well as a detailed description of the tools used at each phase of the work in progress.Finally, included within the pages of the book are photos of a wide variety of finished pieces completed by the author, featuring alabaster sculpture works, as well as mixed media pieces.The book is laced with philosophy about the mental processes of creativity and how to nurture original thought. In short, it is about stone sculpture...as a life-long pursuit.
Download or read book Polychrome Sculpture written by Johannes Taubert and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades since its initial publication in German in 1978, Polychrome Sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. An early proponent of interdisciplinary research, Johannes Taubert played a pioneering role in combining the rigorous scientific analysis of materials with a fuller understanding of form and function, an approach that has led to the development of technical art history as practiced today. Many of the essays in this volume apply such scientific techniques as microscopic analysis to an art-historical understanding of Romanesque and late Gothic wood sculpture, revealing that, far from serving a merely decorative function, the painted surface of these works was intricately connected to their meaning. The paint layers on the sculptures, for example, which the author spent years documenting through close examination and analysis, were intended to impart a heightened sense of reality to the life-sized sculptures, thereby enhancing the viewer’s experience of worship. Taubert believed it was crucial for conservators to understand this context before undertaking any treatments. No other book offers such a focused, subtle, and interdisciplinary examination of the subject as Polychrome Sculpture. This influential work is now available in English for the first time, in a meticulous translation enhanced and updated by new color illustrations, annotations to the original text, and a new introduction.
Download or read book English Alabaster Carvings and Their Cultural Contexts written by Zuleika Murat and published by Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England and abroad, and as a result many survived the iconoclasm that destroyed so much else from this period. They are a unique and valuable witness to the material culture of the Middle Ages. This volume incorporates a variety of new approaches to these artefacts, employing methodologies drawn from a number of different disciplines. Its chapters explore a range of key points connected to alabasters: their origins, their general history and their social, cultural, intellectual and devotional contexts. ZULEIKA MURAT is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Medieval Art at the University of Padua. Contributors: Jennifer Alexander, Jon Bayliss, Claire Blakey, Stephanie De Roemer, Rachel King, AndrewKirkman, Aleksandra Lipinska, Zuleika Murat, Luca Palozzi, Sophie Phillips, Nigel Ramsay, Christina Welch, Philip Weller, Kim Woods, Michaela Zöschg
Download or read book Manual of Oriental Antiquities Including the Architecture Sculpture and Industrial Arts of Chald a Assyria Persia Syria Jud a Ph nicia and Carthage written by Ernest Babelon and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alabaster Carvers written by Ray State and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masterpieces of the J Paul Getty Museum European Sculpture written by Peter Fusco and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European sculpture featured in this volume ranges in date from the late fifteenth century to the very early twentieth and includes a wide variety of media: marble, bronze, alabaster, terracotta, plaster, wood, ivory, and gold. The earliest sculpture represented is the mysterious Saint Cyricus by Francesco Laurana; the latest is a shield-like portrait of Medusa by the eccentric Italian sculptor Vincenzo Gemito. Among the more than forty works included in this handsomely illustrated volume are sculptures by Antico (Bust of a Young Man); Cellini (a Satyr designed for Fontainebleau); Giambologna (a Female Figure that may represent Venus); Bernini (Boy with a Dragon); and Carpeaux (Bust of Jean-Léon Gérôme). Well represented here is the Museum’s splendid collection of Mannerist and early Baroque bronzes, including such masterpieces as Johann Gregor van der Schardt’s Mercury and two superb works by Adriaen de Vries: Juggling Man and Rearing Horse. These works are indicative of the extraordinary quality of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of post-Classical European sculpture.
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of English Medieval Alabaster Work written by Society of Antiquaries of London and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Object of Devotion written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alabaster Sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I King of Egypt written by Samuel Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Medieval Alabasters written by Terence Hodgkinson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanish Sculpture written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 1996 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The collection comprises a number of outstanding pieces from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of which were previously unpublished."--Jacket.
