This beautifully produced survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture introduces the reader to a vast period of history ranging from ancient Rome to the age of exploration. The monumental arts and the diverse minor arts of the Middle Ages are presented here within the social, religious, and political frameworks of lands as varied as France and Denmark, Spain and Turkey. Marilyn Stokstad also teaches her reader how to look at medieval art-which aspects of architecture, sculpture, or painting are important and for what reasons. Stylistic and iconographic issues and themes are thoroughly addressed with attention paid to aesthetic and social contexts. Significantly updated, this second edition of Medieval Art spans the period from the second to the fifteenth centuries and includes over 4000 illustrations, over 100 in color, detailed maps, a time-line, glossary, bibliography, and index-all in a larger 8 by 10 inch trim size.
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Marilyn Stokstad is professor emerita of art history at the University of Kansas. She is the Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri and is the past-President of the International Center for Medieval Art and past-President of the College Art Association. She is the author of Art History, Art: A Brief History, Santiago de Compostela: In the Age of the Great Pilgrimages and a number of catalogs on medieval art, including Gardens of the Middle Ages.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Very comprehensive, not the best.,
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This review is from: Medieval Art (Paperback)
As an art historian in medieval art I would suggest this book if you are looking for a work that is more detailed than the all-encompassing art historical books on Western Art. However, its content is quite dense, almost cramped, in its attempt to cover so many art objects in such a brief manner. Consequently, the writing can be quite dry and hard to follow. If one is searching for a work that has a more leisurely pace but is just as informative, I would suggest the work by James Snyder of the same title. Its more lengthy, but far more detailed and focused on particular objects--a good basic text for the novice or professional.
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the full medival textbook,
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As an art student, I have found Stockstsd's book a great help and a source of pleasure. The book containes wide and relevant infomation about the art of the Middle Ages - from it's early days to the high Gothics. The diferrent chapters offer the reader a relevant and comfortable division to chapters and issues. Wide historical backround,suggested by Stockstad in every chapter, is interesting and important for understanding the caltural, religios and political surroundiung of the special art of these days. Many color picture make the book an easser and more pleassurable to read and remember even for a non english reader and the whole experience of the book can be summarised into "great".
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Nice medieval art book,
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This was an easy read which is not so common in art history textbooks. The pictures were easy to scan and research. I liked that the history was given to the reader in a way so that you don't have to re-read and ponder over every paragraph thinking "WHAT?!"... I'm keeping it as my future reference for any medieval art I come across.
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The Middle Ages. Exuberantly self-confident Renaissance scholars looked back on a thousand years of history as an interlude, and considered the centuries after the fall of Rome as a dark age, enlightened only by the presence of the Church-a middle age because the period fell between the Classical age of Greece and Rome and their own time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ambulatory bays, strip buttresses, arched corbel tables, hieratic scale, compound piers, sexpartite vault, barbarian art, axial chapel, cylindrical piers, central tympanum, gold tesserae, iconographical program, nave vault, votive crown, nave arcade, west facade, opus anglicanum, radiating chapels, sculptured portals, champlevé enamel, apse mosaic, monumental stone sculpture, basilican church, crossing tower, carpet page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Roman Empire, Hagia Sophia, Old Testament, Western Europe, Chartres Cathedral, British Isles, High Gothic, Late Antique, New Testament, Monte Cassino, Good Shepherd, Holy Sepulchre, Church of Sta, Utrecht Psalter, Abbot Suger, Bibliothèque Nationale, Charles the Bald, Carolingian Empire, Holy Women, Santiago de Compostela, Joseph Master, Maria Maggiore, Apollinare Nuovo, Cathedral of Notre-Dame New!
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The Middle Ages. Exuberantly self-confident Renaissance scholars looked back on a thousand years of history as an interlude, and considered the centuries after the fall of Rome as a dark age, enlightened only by the presence of the Church-a middle age because the period fell between the Classical age of Greece and Rome and their own time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ambulatory bays, strip buttresses, arched corbel tables, hieratic scale, compound piers, sexpartite vault, barbarian art, axial chapel, cylindrical piers, central tympanum, gold tesserae, iconographical program, nave vault, votive crown, nave arcade, west facade, opus anglicanum, radiating chapels, sculptured portals, champlevé enamel, apse mosaic, monumental stone sculpture, basilican church, crossing tower, carpet page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Roman Empire, Hagia Sophia, Old Testament, Western Europe, Chartres Cathedral, British Isles, High Gothic, Late Antique, New Testament, Monte Cassino, Good Shepherd, Holy Sepulchre, Church of Sta, Utrecht Psalter, Abbot Suger, Bibliothèque Nationale, Charles the Bald, Carolingian Empire, Holy Women, Santiago de Compostela, Joseph Master, Maria Maggiore, Apollinare Nuovo, Cathedral of Notre-Dame New!
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- Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin) by Trinity College Library Dublin on 4 pages
- The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop on 4 pages
- Book Of Hours by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Early Medieval: Style and Civilization (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) by George Henderson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum by Rupert Smith in Front Matter, and page 96
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- Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 1) by Amy Ione on page 40, and Back Matter
- Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, And Meaning (Icon Editions) by Leland Roth on page 287, and page 313
- Medieval Castles (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) by Marilyn Stokstad on page 180, and page 193
- The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian (Icon Editions) by Bruce Cole in Back Matter
- Michelangelo (Icon Editions) by Howard Hibbard in Back Matter
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