Description
Book SynopsisThis volume contains 19 essays by Herbert Kessler exploring the relationship between pictures and texts in medieval art. It examines various aspects of this relationship, particularly in Christian art, illustrated manuscripts and monumental narratives. The book includes updated notes, a new preface, and a comprehensive index.
Table of ContentsPreface
Pictorial Narrative and Church Mission in Sixth-century Gaul
Diction in the "Bibles of the Illiterate"
Medieval Art as Argument
"Pictures Fertile with Truth": How Christians Managed to Make Images of God without Violating the Second Commandment
"The Most Lamentable Relic in the British Museum" New Observations on the Cotton Genesis
Hic homo formatur: the Genesis Frontispieces of the Touronian Bibles
Traces of an Early Illustrated Pentateuch
Paris grec 102: A Rare Illustrated Acts of the Apostles
An Apostle in Armor and the Mission of Carolingian Art
A Lay Abbot as Patron: Count Vivian and the First Bible of Charles the Bald
The Programme and Structure of the Dura Synagogue Frescoes
Prophetic Portraits in the Dura Synagogue
Pictures as Scripture in Fifth-century Churches
"Caput et speculum omnium ecclesiarum": Old St. Peter's and Church Decoration in Medieval Latium
Passover in Old St. Peter's
Old St. Peter's as the Source and Inspiration of Medieval Church Decoration
An Eleventh-Century Ivory Plaque from South Italy and the Cassinese Revival
Scenes from the Acts of the Apostles on Some Early Christian Ivories
The Meeting of Peter and Paul in Rome. An Emblematic Narrative of Spiritual Brotherhood
Additional Notes
Index
