Romantic love as we know it today was invented in the Middle Ages. Many ideas about love and the focus on the female as the object and the male as the subject of desire were developed by the poets and artists of the twelfth century onwards. Using a sumptuous array of well-known and less familiar images from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth, this book shows how images in paintings and on beautiful objects taught men and women about the art of love. The textiles, ivories, illuminations, chests, and jewels help reveal ...
Read More
Romantic love as we know it today was invented in the Middle Ages. Many ideas about love and the focus on the female as the object and the male as the subject of desire were developed by the poets and artists of the twelfth century onwards. Using a sumptuous array of well-known and less familiar images from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth, this book shows how images in paintings and on beautiful objects taught men and women about the art of love. The textiles, ivories, illuminations, chests, and jewels help reveal medieval life at its most profound moments. Given as gifts and love tokens, these objects were intimately connected with the bodies of their owners.
Read Less
Add this copy of The Medieval Art of Love to cart. $22.75, very good condition, Sold by Lexington Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Idaho Falls, ID, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by LAURENCE KING.
Add this copy of The Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Book Dispensary rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Niagara Falls, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by New Line Books.
Add this copy of The Medieval Art of Love to cart. $63.57, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by LAURENCE KING.
Add this copy of The Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of to cart. $120.88, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Laurence King.