Download or read book Jan van Eyck and Portugal s Illustrious Generation written by Barbara von Barghahn and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Jan Van Eyck's patronage by the Crown of Portugal and his role as diplomat-painter for the Duchy of Burgundy following his first voyage to Lisbon in 1428-1429, when he painted two portraits of Infanta Isabella, who became the third wife of Philip the Good in 1430. New portrait identifications are provided for the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and its iconographical prototype, the lost Fountain of Life. These altarpieces are analysed with regard to King Joao I's conquest of Ceuta, achieved by his sons, who were hailed as an "illustrious generation." Strong family ties between the dynastic houses of Avis and Lancaster explain Lusitania's sustained fascination with Arthurian lore and the Grail quest. Several chapters of this book are overlaid with a chivalric veneer. A second "secret mission" to Portugal in 1437 by Jan van Eyck is postulated and this diplomatic visit is related to Prince Henry the Navigator's expedition to Tangier and King Duarte's attempts to forge an alliance with Alfonso V of Aragon. Late Eyckian commissions are reviewed in the light of this ill-fated crusade and additional new portraits are identified. The most significant artist of Renaissance Flanders appears to have been patronized as much by the House of Avis as by the Duchy of Burgundy. Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders. In 1993, she was conferred O Grao Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. She has spent nearly a decade completing research about Jan van Eyck's diplomatic visits to the Iberian Peninsula.

Download or read book Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo Saxon Art and Thought written by Barbara C. Raw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period.

Download or read book Fixers written by Zrinka Stahuljak and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: the fixer. With this language, Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators and interpreters played as mediators of entire cultures—insider informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and political players. Fixers offers nothing less than a new history of literature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective not of the author or state but of the fixer.

Download or read book Ars Sacra New Edition written by Peter Lasko and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the unbroken development of the Sacred Arts and their interrelationships throughout Europe from the Renovatio of the arts - the 'Rebirth of Antiquity' - encouraged under the Emperor Charlemagne in the late eighth century, until a renewed and fresh appreciation of the natural world - the Gothic - began to replace the powerful stylisations and the last vestiges of the classical tradition of the Romanesque in the early thirteenth century.

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Download or read book Insular Anglo Saxon and Early Anglo Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College Cambridge Text written by Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pair of volumes presents photographs and careful descriptions of a group of early medieval manuscripts at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge -- one of the most renowned collections for Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman manuscripts. The illustrated catalogue offers a curated guide to the manuscripts, encorporating the fruits of a major 7-year research project devoted to the manuscripts while undergoing conservation and close study ...-from Amazon.com.