Functions and Decorations: Art and Ritual at the Vatican Palace in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance [German]

by Bram Kempers

This volume is a collection of new essays by art historians from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States dedicated to shedding new light on the complex historical interrelationship between functions and decorations within architectural settings. It concentrates on the historical context of works of art, that is their ritual embedding in liturgy, ceremony and habit. The authors thereby focus on a particularly rewarding object,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: German
• ISBN: 2503521711
• ISBN13: 9782503521718
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 242 Pages