Main entry:

Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996.

Title & Author:

Late antique, early Christian and mediaeval art / Meyer Schapiro.

Publication:

New York : G. Braziller, 1979.

Description:

xvi, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Selected papers ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Muscipula diaboli", the symbolism of the Mérode Altarpiece -- A note on the Mérode Altarpiece -- Ancient mosaics in Israel: late antique art--pagan, Jewish, Christian -- The Joseph scenes on the Maximianus Throne in Ravenna -- The place of the Joshua Roll in Byzantine history -- The frescoes of Castelseprio -- Notes on Castelseprio -- The Carolingian copy of the calendar of 354 -- The religious meaning of the Ruthwell Cross -- The bowman and the bird on the Ruthwell Cross and other works: the interpretation of secular themes in early medieval religious art -- Marginal images and Drôlerie -- The decoration of the Leningrad manuscript of Bede -- The place of Ireland in Hiberno-Saxon art -- A note on the wall strips of Saxon churches -- "Cain's jaw-bone that did the first murder" -- The image of a disappearing Christ -- The angel and the ram in Abraham's sacrifice: a parallel in Western and Islamic art -- An Irish-Latin text on the angel with the ram in Abraham's sacrifice -- The Beatus apocalypse of Gerona -- An illuminated English psalter of the early thirteenth century -- On an Italian painting of the flagellation of Christ in the Frick Collection -- The Bird's Head Haggada, an illustrated Hebrew manuscript of ca. 1300.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0807609277
9780807609279
0807612952
9780807612958

Subject:

Art, Early Christian.
Art, Medieval.
Art paléochrétien.
Art médiéval.
Beeldende kunsten.
Klassieke oudheid.
Vroegchristelijke kunst.
Middeleeuwen.

Form/genre:

Essays.
Papers (document genres)
Articles.

Added entries:

Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996. Works. Selections. 1977. Braziller ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 189759
Call No.: ID N7832.S26; ID:95-B370
Status: Available