Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"How I shall shiver for the sun," Albrecht Durer wrote to a friend during his stay in Italy, "here I am lord, at home a parasite." The world of Nuremberg to which he returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th...
The works produced by this process were generally simple in character, suited to the medieval tastes of the artists. Temptation against Faith, an anonymous woodcut done in 1475 illustrates the typically stiff and expressionless style.
There had, of course, always been fine scholars of the Middle East, but as Lockard observes, "Their interests were largely medieval, Biblical, or archaeological. They were all aware of problems in the modern period, but there was never any formal study as such."
But why be satisfied with the modest architectural glories of 1874, or even with imitation Gothic? With a little imagination and more funds the true splendors of the Middle Ages could be recalled. The glare of electric lights should be replaced by the romantic and less expensive flicker of torches...
A disciple of Adams rather than Gibbon, Medievalist Allan Temko, 31, has put his love and knowledge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame into an astute and eloquent book that merits shelfroom with Adams' famed Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. But while Adams sought out only the major thread...