Prophets carrying texts by other authors in Byzantine painting: Mistakes or intentional substitutions?
Prophets carrying texts by other authors in Byzantine painting: Mistakes or intentional substitutions? By Ljubica D. Popovich Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, Issue 44 (2007)…
King David in Germany: Royal Traditions at Prüm
King David in Germany:Royal Traditions at Prüm Marquardt-Cherry, Janet T. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 9 (1992) Abstract Unlike Psalters, Tropers were not…
Imaginary History and Burgundian State-building: The Translation of the Annals of Hainault
Imaginary History and Burgundian State-building: The Translation of the Annals of Hainault Rigoutlot, Robert B. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 9 (1992) Abstract…
Sacred Image and Illusion in Late Flemish Manuscripts
Sacred Image and Illusion in Late Flemish Manuscripts By Robert G. Calkins Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 6 (1989) One of the most…
Marking Time? A fifteenth-century liturgical calendar in the wall paintings of Pickering parish church, North Yorkshire
Marking Time? A fifteenth-century liturgical calendar in the wall paintings of Pickering parish church, North Yorkshire By Kate Giles Church Archaeology, Vol.4 (2000) Introduction: This…
Perceiving different images at different scales of research: the case of early Netherlandish painting
Perceiving different images at different scales of research: the case of early Netherlandish painting By Jeanne Nuechterlein The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol.6:8…
The Symbolic Significance of Medieval Armenian Canon Tables
The Symbolic Significance of Medieval Armenian Canon Tables By Roseen Giles Saeculum Undergraduate Academic Journal, Vol 4, No 2 (2009) Introduction: The highly ornamented illuminations…
Holy Warriors: The Romanesque Rider and the Fight Against Islam
Holy Warriors: The Romanesque Rider and the Fight Against Islam By Linda V. Seidel The Holy War, edited by Thomas Patrick Murphy (Ohio State University…
Fish and Fishermen In English Medieval Church Wall Paintings
Fish and Fishermen In English Medieval Church Wall Paintings By Frederick Buller Medlar Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-899600-98-4 Fred Buller is well respected as one…
Pen and Parchment – The Beautiful Evidence of Medieval Drawings
Edward Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University, and the leading authority on information design, discusses how drawings from the Middle Ages exhibit ‘graphical excellence.’
Visualising Urban Space: Rome’s Late Medieval Iconography from a Media Historical Perspective
Visualising Urban Space: Rome’s Late Medieval Iconography from a Media Historical Perspective By Marco Vencato Power and culture : new perspectives on spatiality in…
Painting the Bodiless: Angels and Eunuchs in Byzantine Art and Culture
Painting the Bodiless: Angels and Eunuchs in Byzantine Art and Culture By Amelia R. Brown Paper given at Sexualities: Bodies, Desires, Practices, 4th Global…
A Guide to the The Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most well known and interesting pieces of artwork from the Middle Ages. This feature offers readers information about the Bayeux Tapestry, including videos and articles
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History Edited by Pierre Bouet, Brian Levy and François Neveux Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004 ISBN: 2841332136…
Pictish Art and the Sea
Pictish Art and the Sea Cessford, Craig The Heroic Age, Issue 8 (June 2005) Abstract Although the sea must have been of crucial…
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: The Case for St. Florent of Saumur
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: The Case for St. Florent of Saumur By George Beech Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 ISBN: 1403966702 This…
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece By Carola Hicks Random House (Chatto & Windus), 2006 ISBN: 9780701174637 The vivid scenes…
A Needle in the Right Hand of God : the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
A Needle in the Right Hand of God : the Norman conquest of 1066 and the making and meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry…
The political artistry of the Bayeux tapestry: a visual epic of Norman imperial ambitions
The political artistry of the Bayeux tapestry: a visual epic of Norman imperial ambitions By John Michael Crafton Edwin Mellen Press, 2007 ISBN:…
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vitae of Edward the Confessor in Dialogue
One of the mysteries of The Bayeux Tapestry is its bias: was this depiction of the events of 1066 meant to be from the point of view of the conqueror or the conquered?
Sacred Threads: The Bayeux Tapestry as a Religious Object
There is a duality to the Bayeux Tapestry. The first half is seemingly sympathetic towards Harold Godwin (c.1022-1066), with the second part strikingly pro-Norman. There is a double narrative, one running through the frieze itself and another among the animals and creatures in the borders. We see clerics and knights, churches and palaces, with the sacred blending in with the secular.
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation By John Micheal Crafton Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art,…
Stylistic Variation and Roman Influence in the Bayeux Tapestry
There are a number of places in the Tapestry where the graphics of the main register are different in both subject matter and style. The men pictured at these points are workers, engaged in practical, mundane (distinctly non-heroic) tasks.
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vikings
How did the Bayeux Tapestry, with its images of Normans and Englishmen, come to be so strongly equated with the legendary Vikings in the popular imagination?
Art and reform in tenth-century Rome – the paintings of S. Maria in Pallara
The medieval wall paintings of the church of S. Maria in Pallara, situated on the Palatine Hill, Rome, provide insight into the intellectual use of images in the Middle Ages. The fragmentary apse programme survives, supplemented by antiquarian drawings that include copies of lost nave cycles and a lost donor portrait of their patron, Petrus Medicus.