Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"The medieval mind couldn't conceive of the fact that classical form and classical subject matter belonged together," Erwin Panofsky, art historian of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, told a capacity audience in the Fogg Large Lecture Room last night.
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art this week took the wrappings off a handsome Christmas gift to itself: two superbly hand-illuminated medieval Books of Hours, almost as fresh as the day they were painted, which experts value together at $250,000. One, made to order sometime before 1413...
What Lindley had uncovered is today rated as a prime artistic find: five panels of 15th century medieval religious wall paintings, blurred but still color-bright. Experts guess that the cottage was once a pilgrims' wayhouse between British shrines. Except for purposeful defacing by some iconoclasts' pikes in...
The story is set in medieval Japan, when the common people groaned beneath the rule of outlaw and disorder. A village in a valley is its hero and its theme. Loud are the wails of its inhabitants when a farmer who has overheard some bandits plotting on the hill comes...
Erwin Panofsky, art historian of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, will lecture tonight at 8:30 p.m. on "Mithras in Monreale? Some Further Observations on Classical Mythology in Medieval Art."