Sacred and Legendary Art 2 Volume Set

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-108-05180-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 890 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

Published in 1848, this two-volume work was received with great praise. During a celebrated career, Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) produced Shakespeare criticism, travel writing, biography, and art history, and was admired by contemporaries such as Mary Shelley and Thomas Carlyle. Taking an aesthetic rather than religious approach, the work is a study of the legends represented in Western art of the Middle Ages, ordered taxonomically. Though Jameson is considered the first professional female art critic, this is a reductive label; she was, rather, one of the great art critics of her age and her work is still of importance to art historians. The volumes are richly illustrated with reproductions of woodcuts and etchings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jameson, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Christliche Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Preface; Introduction; Of angels and archangels; The Four Evangelists; The Twelve Apostles; The Doctors of the Church; St Mary Magdalene, St Martha, St Lazarus, St Maximin, St Marcella, St Mary of Egypt, and the beatified penitents. Volume 2: The Patron Saints of Christendom; The Virgin Patronesses; The early martyrs; The Greek martyrs; The Latin martyrs; The early bishops; The hermit saints; The warrior saints of Christendom; Index.