Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mr. Ellison's task is far from finished, but already he can say that 16 medieval manuscripts from widely separated libraries belong to the same "family." They were copied from the same lost manuscript or from each other. Sometime next year, with the help of Mark IV, he hopes...
Citation: "A pioneer and master in the fields . of Early Christian and Medieval art..." Henry Norris Russell...... Sc.D.
The history of art is not a dead-end street of higher criticism, but rather the mirror to history in its broadest aspects. It has by virtue of necessity, and particularly at the undergraduate level, come to symbolize that universal synthesis for our modern world which the medieval schoolmen hoped...
This week the reassembled tapestry went on view at the Metropolitan Museum's medieval showroom, The Cloisters, of which Rorimer is director. The tapestry, a sumptuous rectangle 30 ft. long by 11ft. high, has been named The Glorification of Charles VIII, King of France from 1483 to 1498. The...
To please his royal patrons, who liked to identify themselves with famous forebears or Biblical characters, the artist worked out his scenes as a series of allegories. In the main scene, Charles is shown as a monarch of France, and the lady with crossed arms before him is his sister...