Medieval Canterbury, the centre of the English Church, was also the centre of England's greatest and most sustained achievement in art: the illumination of MSS. between AD 1000 and 1200. Originally published in 1954, this book is one of the most authoritative works on the subject. The author has considered the reader with an unspecialised interest in art, and he fluently relates his criticisms to the illustrations. 291 photographs are included. The narrative begins with the inception of the Anglo-Saxon impressionistic style ...
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Medieval Canterbury, the centre of the English Church, was also the centre of England's greatest and most sustained achievement in art: the illumination of MSS. between AD 1000 and 1200. Originally published in 1954, this book is one of the most authoritative works on the subject. The author has considered the reader with an unspecialised interest in art, and he fluently relates his criticisms to the illustrations. 291 photographs are included. The narrative begins with the inception of the Anglo-Saxon impressionistic style at Canterbury; it traces the gradual development of Romanesque and Gothic and show the important effects of Norman, French and Byzantine influence. The author analyses the character and origin of Norman illumination, the problems of iconography and survivals of classical art. One of the bases of the study is a thorough knowledge of Canterbury scripts, which is most necessary for dating illuminations.
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Good in Fair jacket. Hardcover. Folio. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. folio with 140 pages. The book is in good condition with slight shelf wear, some foxing to back endpaper and paste down, page edges. The dust jacket is in fair condition with small tears and rubbing to edges. Some soiling to back cover. There are 291 Black & White photos. Interior is clean and tight. Dark Blue spine/ Gold text.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Color frontispiece, and 72 b/w plates each with multiple views. 140pp. 4to, natural cloth, chipped d.w. Cambridge: University Press, 1954. First edition. Small ownership signature, along with a bookplate of art historian Meyer Schapiro. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.