The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 examines the art and architecture produced for the Crusaders in Syria-Palestine during the first century of their quest to recapture Jerusalem. Commissioned by kings and queens, patriarchs and bishops, knights and merchants, who came as pilgrims or settlers to the Holy Land, it is an art of manuscript illumination, fresco painting, mosaics, stone sculpture, metalwork, ivory carving, coins and seals by artists trained in the Latin West, and the Byzantine and Islamic East. Combining the stylistic and iconographic traditions of these regions, Crusader art defies easy categorization: indeed, it is a unique phenomenon within the spectrum of medieval art.
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"Folda's book does the reader a unique service....The amount of information presented here is without precedent in Crusader art research....This magnificent volume will serve (together with the works of Vogué, Enlart, Deschamps, and Boase among others) as one of the basic texts in the study of the Crusader art." Dan Bahat,Sixteenth Century Journal
"...prodigiously illustrated and impressively learned, is the first of two devoted to a complete survey of the art of the crusaders in the Holy Land....Folda's book is rich treasure for those interested in the crusades....The second volume of Professor Folda's magisterial work is eagerly awaited." Bernard McDinn, Studies in Christianity and Culture
"Folda's impressive book is a heavy volume, with a long text set in double columns and accompanied by a full apparatus of notes, an exhaustive bibliography, and an ample complement of illustrations. ...the author's solid erudition, thoroughness, and his invariably fair-minded treament of contending points of view compel admiration." Walter Cahn, Speculum
"Folda's book does the reader a unique service....The amount of information presented here is without precedent in Crusader art research....This magnificent volume will serve (together with the works of Vogué, Enlart, Deschamps, and Boase among others) as one of the basic texts in the study of the Crusader art." Dan Bahat,Sixteenth Century Journal
"...prodigiously illustrated and impressively learned, is the first of two devoted to a complete survey of the art of the crusaders in the Holy Land....Folda's book is rich treasure for those interested in the crusades....The second volume of Professor Folda's magisterial work is eagerly awaited." Bernard McDinn, Studies in Christianity and Culture
"Folda's impressive book is a heavy volume, with a long text set in double columns and accompanied by a full apparatus of notes, an exhaustive bibliography, and an ample complement of illustrations. ...the author's solid erudition, thoroughness, and his invariably fair-minded treament of contending points of view compel admiration." Walter Cahn, Speculum
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This book examines art and architecture produced for the Crusaders in Syria-Palestine during the first century of their quest to recapture Jerusalem, combining the stylistic and iconographic traditions of artists trained in the Latin West, and the Byzantine and Islamic East. The first volume in a two-part survey, this study traces the main phases of development in Crusader art.
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The relatively high price that I paid for this book is worth every penny. It is a very thorough book on my favorite subject: The art of the Holy Land. I also bought this and the 2nd part of this title by Jaroslav Folda. They are outstanding and very very complete. You will not be disappointed.
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