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Herbert L. Kessler and Marianna Shreve Simpson, eds.
Pictorial Narrative in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1985.
Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 16.
ISSN 0091-7338.
Paperback, stitch bound.
229x279x12mm.
181pp, illustrations throughout, one in colour, the rest monochrome.
English.
Fair to good condition: covers look somewhat battered, with some rubbing along the spine-side edges; spine is uncreased, but has a snarl to the top, extending onto the front cover.This item £19.50
733g.
Proceedings of a symposium held in Baltimore, 16-17 March 1984. Contents:
Winter, The Stele of Vultures & the beginning of historical narrative in the art of the ancient Near East;
Meyers, Component design as a narrative device in Amarna tomb art;
Stewart, History, myth & allegory in the program of the Temple of Athena Nike, Athens;
Kessler, Pictorial narrative & Church mission in 6th-c. Gaul;
Tronzo, The prestige of St Peter's - the functions of monumental narrative cycles in Italy;
Shimizu, The Shigisan-engi Scrolls, c. 1175;
Simpson, Narrative allusion & metaphor in the decoration of medieval Islamic objects;
Belting, The new role of narrative in public painting of the Trecento - historia & allegory;
Hedeman, The function of ceremonial in Charles V's Grande Chroniques de France.
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