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Medieval Western

Studies on Metalwork, Ivories and Stone

by Peter Lasko

24 x 17 cm 320 pp. 124 illus.
£130.00
Publication: 1994
ISBN 0 907132 82 0
Buckram Bound

Peter Lasko is the leading authority on the luxury arts of the Middle Ages. His book, Ars Sacra, has become the standard reference work on the subject. This collection of twenty-one papers by Professor Lasko contains two studies on sculpture, as well as a number of studies on the arts of the metalworker and ivory carver for which he is best known. There is also an essay on the ethics of restoration, and three studies on the discipline of art history.

Contents

Preface
The Comb of St. Cuthbert
A Romanesque Ivory Carving
Exhibition of Romanesque Art at Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela
Der Goldpokal der Konige von Frankreich und England
The Thorn Reliquary: the Art of the Parisian Goldsmiths of c. 1400
The Signet Ring of Richard I of England
An English Romanesque Portable Altar
The Pentecost Panel and Godefroid de Claire
The Rattlesden St. John
The Escrain de Charlemagne
The Courtauld Institute of Art and Art History in Great Britain
An Unnoticed Leaf of a Late Antique Ivory Diptych and the Temple of Mercury in Rome
The Concept of Regionalism in French Romanesque
Two Ivory Kings in the British Museum and the Norman Conquest
Anglo-Saxon or Norman? Observations on Some Ivories at the Hayward Gallery
The Tomb of St. Bernward of Hildesheim
The Enger Cross
The Impact of German-speaking Refugees in Britain on the Fine Arts
Der Einfluss der deutschen Kunstgeschichte in England
The Principles of Restoration
Der Krodo-Altar und der Kaisersthul in Goslar
Additional Notes
Index