Title & Author:

Pictorial narrative in antiquity and the Middle Ages / edited by Herbert L. Kessler and Marianna Shreve Simpson.

Publication:

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Hanover ; London : Distributed by the University Press of New England, [1985]
©1985

Description:

181 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Series:

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; v. 16. Symposium series / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 4

Notes:
Revised versions of papers given at a symposium held in Baltimore, Mar. 16-17, 1984, cosponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Dept. of the History of Art of Johns Hopkins University.
Includes bibliographical references.
After the battle is over : the Stele of the Vultures and the beginning of historical narrative in the art of the ancient Near East / Irene J. Winter -- Component design as a narrative device in Amarna tomb art / Elizabeth L. Meyers -- History, myth, and allegory in the program of the Temple of Athena Nike, Athens / Andrew F. Stewart -- Pictorial narrative and church mission in sixth-century Gaul / Herbert L. Kessler -- The prestige of Saint Peter's : observations on the function of monumental narrative cycles in Italy / William Tronzo -- The Shigisan-engi scrolls, c. 1175 / Yoshiaki Shimizu --Narrative allusion and metaphor in the decoration of medieval Islamic objects / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- The new role of narrative in public painting of the Trecento : Historia and allegory / Hans Belting -- Restructuring the narrative : the function of ceremonial in Charles V's Grandes chroniques de France.

ISBN:

089468079X
9780894680793

Subject:

Narrative art Themes, motives.
Art, Medieval Themes, motives.
Art, Ancient Themes, motives.
Art narratif Thèmes, motifs.
Art médiéval Thèmes, motifs.
Art antique Thèmes, motifs.
Ereignisbild
Kunst
Beeldende kunsten.
Verteltheorie.
Verhalen.
Oudheid.
Middeleeuwen.
Narrative art.
Art, Ancient.
Art, Medieval.
Baltimore <Md.,1984>

Form/genre:

Symposia.

Added entries:

Kessler, Herbert L., 1941- editor.
Simpson, Marianna Shreve, 1949- editor.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.), sponsoring body.
Johns Hopkins University. Department of the History of Art, sponsoring body.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 16.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium series ; 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192509
Call No.: ID N7433.93.P53; ID:97-B3598
Status: Available