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Jaroslav
Folda.
Crusader
Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre.
Cambridge
U.P., due September 2005.
ISBN-10:
0521835836 | ISBN-13: 9780521835831.
Hardback.
228 x
152 mm.
832pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £85.00
This book tells the story
of the Architecture and the Figural Art produced for the Crusaders
after the battle of Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, during
the one hundred years that Acre was the capital of the Latin Kingdom of
Jerusalem, 1191–1291. It is an art sponsored by kings and queens,
patriarchs and bishops, clergy, monks, friars, knights and soldiers,
aristocrats and merchants, all men and women of means, who came as
pilgrims, Crusaders, settlers, and men of commerce to the Holy Land.
The artists are Franks and Italians born and/or resident in the Holy
Land, Westerners who traveled to the Latin East, Eastern Christians,
and even Muslims, who worked for Crusader patrons.
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