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Medieval Art by Marilyn Stokstad Publisher Comments This survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture, from ancient Rome to the age of exploration, introduces the reader to a period of extraordinary historical and geographical extent. The monumental arts of architecture and sculpture... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Early Medieval Art (02 Edition) by Lawrence Nees Publisher Comments In the first millennium, a rich and distinctive artistic tradition emerged in Europe. Early Medieval Art explores this tradition and tracks its development from c. 300 AD through c. 1000 AD, revealing forms of artistic expression ranging from brilliant... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gothic Art (World of Art) by Andrew Martindale Publisher Comments The splendor of Gothic art can be seen in the magnificent cathedrals of Notre Dame, Chartres, Rouen, Salisbury and Lincoln and in their sculpture. But also between 1140 and 1400 a vast quantity of very fine paintings, stained glass, manuscript... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romanesque and Gothic (08 Edition) by Gloria Fossi Publisher Comments A wealth of stunning, high-quality images; fascinating analysis from an expert and eloquent author; and a surprisingly accessible price distinguish this breathtaking and superbly designed volume. It offers an in-depth, visually exciting exploration of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Medieval Art (Oxford History of Art) by Veronica Sekules Publisher Comments This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the heroism... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Death and Art: Europe 1200-1530 by Eleanor Townsend Publisher Comments In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, where life expectancy was under 40 and the Catholic Church taught that, after dying, the soul faced a terrifying and uncertain onward journey, death was a major cultural preoccupation. This fascinating book sets out... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Art of the Middle Ages (World of Art) by Janetta Rebo Benton Publisher Comments Informative, accessible, and imaginatively illustrated, Benton's new survey offers a lively exploration of the visual arts of the Middle Ages: its stained glass, mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, mural and panel paintings, ivories, metalwork, enamels... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1415 Sources and Documents by Cyril Mango Publisher Comments Originally published by Prentice-Hall, 1972.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Masons and Sculptors (Medieval Craftsmen Series) by Nicola Coldstream Publisher Comments The glorious heritage of cathedrals and castles in Europe today is the legacy of the medieval masons. The master mason, head of a team of masons, was the medieval equivalent to an architect. He acted as contractor, designer, and engineer, drawing up the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Early Christian & Byzantine Art: A&i (Art & Ideas) by John Lowden Publisher Comments John Lowden provides an authoritative account of early Christian and Byzantine art from the third century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. From the grandest public buildings to the smallest personal items, it was and is an art of extraordinary... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Treasure Hunt: A New York Times Reporter Tracks the Quedlinburg Hoard by William H Honan Publisher Comments In the last days of World War II, a thousand year-old trove of artworks and manuscripts, worth $200 million, disappeared from a mineshaft in Germany. Among the missing items were the world-famous Samuhel Gospels, a spectacular gold, silver and jewel... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Romanesque Art (Art of Century) by Victoria Charles Synopsis The term of Roman art distinguishes, in art history, the period between the 11th and the 13th century. This era shows a great diversity of regional schools which were all specific in their own way. In architecture as well as in sculpture, the Roman art... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Medieval Panorama by Robert Bartlett Publisher Comments With more than eight hundred illustrations, Medieval Panorama is an all-encompassing visual re-creation of the medieval world: its peoples, its defining characteristics, indeed, its whole culture in the widest sense. Every facet of the medieval world... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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Gothic Art (Movements in Art) by Jessica Gunderson Synopsis An examination of the art movement known as Gothic Art from its beginnings in the 12th century to its decline in the early 1400s, including an introduction to great artists and works.... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Blackwell Companions to Art History #3: A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe. Edited by Conrad Rudolph by Conrad Rudolph Publisher Comments A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the architecture, manuscript illumination, and sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods in Northern Europe. Comprising 30 original theoretical and historiographic... (read more) List Price $59.25 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Medieval Design by Dover Publisher Comments Straight from the artistic heritage of the Middle Ages, museum-quality illustrations fill this treasury. Gathered from rare sources, intricate and colorful designs stand alongside fascinating line art and stoic figure drawings. Breathtaking... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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California Studies in the History of Art #4: Made in God's Image? by Penny Howell Jolly Publisher Comments The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $31.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe by Mitchell B Merback Publisher Comments Christ's Crucifixion is one of the most recognized images in Western culture, and it has come to stand as a universal symbol of both suffering and salvation. But often overlooked is the fact that ultimately the Crucifixion is a scene of capital... (read more) List Price $67.25 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Byzantine Art & Architecture: An Introduction by Lyn Rodley Publisher Comments This book provides a standard introduction to Byzantine art and architecture for the university student and for anyone seriously interested in the subject. It covers the whole Byzantine period from the fourth to the fourteenth century in a systematic... (read more) Your price: $39.00 Used - Hardcover
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Early Christian And Medieval Antiquities vol 2 Other Mosaics, Paintings, Sarcophagi, and Small Objects by John Osborne Synopsis This volume completes Part II of Series A of the Paper Museum. Together with the first volume, it reflects an unusual aspect of Cassiano's interests, but a particularly relevant one for modern scholars: the material remains of post-classical culture in... (read more) List Price $290.00 Your price: $22.50 Used - Hardcover
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