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1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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monochrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Facing the Middle Ages / Charles T. Little -- Fate of the face in medieval art / Willibald Sauerländer -- Iconoclasm : a legacy of violence / Stephen K. Scher -- Limestone project : a scientific detective story / Georgia Wright and Lore L. Holmes -- Stone bible : faith in images / Jacqueline E. Jung -- What are marginalia? / Janetta Rebold Benton -- Sculpting identity / Stephen Perkinson -- Gothic Italy : reflections of antiquity / Christine Verzar and Charles T. Little -- Reliquary busts : "a certain aristocratic eminence" / Barbara Drake Boehm. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Faces in Medieval sculpture are explorations of human identity, marked not only by evolving nuances of style but also by the ongoing drama of European history. Created from materials as diverse as marble, limestone, polychromed wood, and silver gilt, the eighty-one sculpted heads featured in this beautifully illustrated volume date from the third century A.D. through the early 1500s and represent French, German, Italian, Spanish, Byzantine, English, and other medieval sculptural traditions. Each sculpture bears eloquent witness to its own history, whether it was removed from its original context for ideological reasons or because of changing tastes. As a work of art, the sculpted head is a particularly moving and vivid fragment; it often seems to retain some part of its past, becoming not unlike a living remnant of an age. In antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the soul resided in the head, as articulated by Plato in the Timaeus. The head was thus understood to be a center of power, the core of individual identity, and the primary vehicle for human expression, emotion, and character. Many medieval sculpted heads became separated from their settings-often churches or other ecclesiastical monuments-by the seemingly endless destruction and displacement of art works in Europe during and after the Middle Ages. In many cases the artistic or aesthetic merits of a given fragment are all that remain of the original work's context, meaning, and significance. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website. |
| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
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Face in art -- Exhibitions.
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Face in art. |
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Head in art -- Exhibitions.
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Head in art. |
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Sculpture, Medieval -- Exhibitions.
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Sculpture, Medieval. |
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Little, Charles T.
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Sauerländer, Willibald.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Face in medieval sculpture |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Set in stone. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006020906 (OCoLC)70176905 |
| ISBN |
1588391922 (Metropolitan Museum of Art ; hardcover) |
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9781588391926 (Metropolitan Museum of Art ; hardcover) |
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0300117817 (Yale University Press ; hardcover) |
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9780300117813 (Yale University Press ; hardcover) |
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