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In this book, Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of Saint Victor''s forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources, works of art are not often referred to, let alone described in any detail. Almost completely ignored by art historians because of the immense difficulty of its text, Hugh of Saint Victor''s Mystic Ark (c.112530) is among the most unusual sources we have for an understanding of medieval artistic culture. Depicting all time, all space, all matter, all human history and all spiritual striving, this highly polemical painting deals with a series of cultural issues crucial in the education of society''s elite during one of the great periods of intellectual change in Western history.

Table of Contents
Preface; 1. The Mystic Ark lectures; 2. The image of The Mystic Ark; 3. Conclusion: The Mystic Ark and the multiplication and systematization of imagery; Appendix.

The Mystic Ark

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 6 September 2014
      ISBN-13 9781107037052
      978-1107037052
      ISBN-10 1107037050
      Also in:
      History of art History of religion

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this book, Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of Saint Victor''s forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources, works of art are not often referred to, let alone described in any detail. Almost completely ignored by art historians because of the immense difficulty of its text, Hugh of Saint Victor''s Mystic Ark (c.112530) is among the most unusual sources we have for an understanding of medieval artistic culture. Depicting all time, all space, all matter, all human history and all spiritual striving, this highly polemical painting deals with a series of cultural issues crucial in the education of society''s elite during one of the great periods of intellectual change in Western history.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; 1. The Mystic Ark lectures; 2. The image of The Mystic Ark; 3. Conclusion: The Mystic Ark and the multiplication and systematization of imagery; Appendix.

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