Romanesque Sculpture An Ecstatic Art

by Susan Marcus

Book Overview

Architectural sculpture, virtually abandoned for five hundred years following the demise of the Roman Empire, was revivified on the portals of Romanesque churches in eleventh and twelfth-century France and Spain. Long overdue is a reappraisal of those images whose aesthetic of rendering the invisible visible establish them as valuable witnesses to the culture of Europe in the Middle Ages. Countless losses, mutilation through wilful destruction, centuries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1460234952
• ISBN13: 9781460234952
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"