Description
Book SynopsisThis selection of articles by Walter Cahn, the Carnegie Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, embraces work by the author that spans a period of some thirty years. Professor Cahn's interests here represented range from the illustration of the lost 10th-century Prayer Book of the late Carolingian Queen Emma to a 15th-century guide to the churches of Rome from the library of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, though their primary focus is Romanesque art of Latinate Europe in the 11th and the 12th century.
Somewhat against the grain of academic specialization, the author is equally at home in sculpture, painting, book illumination, and fundamental questions of methodology. Among the topics that particularly engage his attention in this collection are connections between art and Biblical exegesis, Cistercian art and imagery, the role of art in the expression of orthodox and heretical beliefs, and perhaps most insistently, the figuration of religious, social and political structures within the pictorial languages of the medieval world.
Table of ContentsPreface
A Defense of the Trinity in the Citeaux Bible
The Tympanum of the Saint-Anne Portal of Notre-Dame de Paris and the Iconography of the Division of the Powers in the Early Middle Ages
Observations on Corbeil
A King from Dreux
Moses ben Abraham's 'Chroniques de la Bible'
St. Albans and the Channel Style in England
Solomonic Elements in Romanesque Art
Three Eleventh-Century Manuscripts from Nevers
The Rule and the Book. Cistercian Manuscript Illumination in Burgundy and Champagne
The Psalter of Queen Emma
Heresy and the Interpretation of Romanesque Art
The Frescoes of San Pedro de Arlanza
Margaret of York's Pilgrimage Guide to the Churches of Rome
Romanesque Sculpture and the Spectator
Architecture and Exegesis: Richard of Saint-Victor's Ezekiel Commentary and its Illustrations
Benedict and Bernard: The Ladder Image in the Anchin Manuscript
Additional Notes
Index
